h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

many things that you get on NHS prescription can be bought cheaper over the counter...



The current prescription charge is £8.40 per item (£16.80 per pair of elastic hosiery). A three monthly PPC is £29.10 and could save you money if you need more than three prescribed items in three months.

firms etc charge the NHS far more, because they know they need them

That's defeating the purpose, and I think it should be regulated.

drugs companies hold the NHS to ransom

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Institute_for_Health_and_Care_Excellence

these say "we can't allow that drug, because it's too expensive"
sod the patient who needs it to live

governments can't alter things because the companies are TO BIG

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Institute_for_Health_and_Care_Excellence

oops!

Yeah, that's a universal problem.

The solution, of course, is to retrain doctors to use holistic medicine. Which ain't gonna happen.

there's panic on now, with lack of doctors/nurses. The gov' say they're doing a good job in training etc (hogwash) it's their cuts that forced hospital cuts in the first place. It's the old saying of one of your statesmen I think ? passing the buck!


it's always someone else's fault

hootoo starting to load pages etc slowly here

Hm, nothing wrong here. But supper will be ready shortly, so I'll go away.

Take care, see you!

could be the buffer thing with using brunel ?

see you later

Could be, fixed now.

oh what a happy little bunny I am on pocket = no need for new specson eyes = not got any worse since last test 2 year ago

Good for you. I pick up new hearing aids tomorrow - and have to pay for them over time.

argh! no wonder, anything to do with health there, needs insurance cover not being joking, but had I be born over there, my parents would never have been able to pay for my medical needs ie: spine etc

Sure. There was no health insurance at all when I was born - I forget what it cost my parents, wasn't much, about 200 dollars I think, but my mom had the receipt.

I'd have been chucked on council tip

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=milwaukee+brace&biw=1490&bih=720&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&sqi=2&ved=0ahUKEwj7ur7ur_jLAhWEvBoKHfsiCnIQsAQIIg#imgrc=7HjeAojZAs-5bM%3A

I wore THAT from 4yrs to 10yrs old

I think back then, most people didn't go to the doctor unless it was serious.

For instance: when I was 18 months old, I took a header off my high chair on a Sunday morning. Knocked myself out cold.

Parents - young, first kid - jumped in the car and drove to the nearest hospital. By the time they got there, I woke up crying. They decided I wasn't dead, so okay, and drove back home. Didn't even go inside.

Which might sort of explain me...

snap! I was knocked out by a swingboat thing I was passing, as a kid

What's a swingboat thing?