Taking medications
Apr 10th 2012, 5:58 pm
#46
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Re: Taking medications
What I meant was that whilst I am living in the UK I pay for a pre-payment card for the year that enables me to get meds for the whole year every month. Just because I spend a couple of months in another country my doctors seem to think this means I become ineligible to take three months with me and that is what I meant by it should not matter where I am ill.
When I get married I will be able to get meds through my wife's medicare plan and pay.
When I get married I will be able to get meds through my wife's medicare plan and pay.
you are trying to screw the NHS system like a lot of people do. Your prepayment card covers diddly squat and a lot of doctors only issue one month at a time to stop people doing what you are doing. I've heard of some ppl asking GPs to post their meds to Spain etc complete taking the mick no wonder the NHS is skint
Apr 10th 2012, 6:01 pm
#47
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Re: Taking medications
I buy a pre-payment card in the UK (last year it was a just over a hundred pounds for a year) and I do an online repeat and my friend picks the meds up and posts them to me here in SD.
She sends them International Signed For for a tenner and I get them in just over a week.
If your doctors practice finds out you are spending more time here than in the UK they will de-list you and you will have to go into the practice with ID to re-sign up.
Don't tell them too much!
She sends them International Signed For for a tenner and I get them in just over a week.
If your doctors practice finds out you are spending more time here than in the UK they will de-list you and you will have to go into the practice with ID to re-sign up.
Don't tell them too much!
Your GP should get the NHS counter fraud service involved as clearly you are bending the rule in-extremus
Apr 10th 2012, 6:02 pm
#48
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Re: Taking medications
you are trying to screw the NHS system like a lot of people do. Your prepayment card covers diddly squat and a lot of doctors only issue one month at a time to stop people doing what you are doing. I've heard of some ppl asking GPs to post their meds to Spain etc complete taking the mick no wonder the NHS is skint
Apr 10th 2012, 6:06 pm
#49
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Re: Taking medications
no universal policy far as i was aware some do it just for 1 month if the PCT tells them to for cost cutting reasons
Apr 10th 2012, 6:15 pm
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Re: Taking medications
In this state you have to state a particular place and register it with your doctor, so when you get prescription meds, you don't get a script, it goes direct to the pharmacy or the shop you registered and have to go pick it up from there.
It makes it much more harder to shop around because you then need to let the doctor, the old and the new pharmacy know, so that they can punt the script around.
Apr 10th 2012, 7:03 pm
#51
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Re: Taking medications
I seem to remember someone posting a while ago whose parent came here through family sponsorship without insurance. Although the son had lived here for years...he hadn't realised that his parent would not be able to get healthcare insurance without it costing an arm and a leg. Their health took a turn for the worse and it all got very messy. 
I wish the OP would confirm how they think they are going to get health insurance.
Last edited by SanDiegogirl; Apr 10th 2012 at 7:03 pm. Reason: spelling
Apr 10th 2012, 7:14 pm
#52
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Re: Taking medications
Well Mr Messirules (what an apt username you have) my hospital doctor suggested I get someone to post the meds out to me when I told him I was going away for 3 months.
