can we charge the NHS??

peachyprice

pinksponge wrote: »

Also yes the child could have became ill. I beleive the doctor told him that and so did the health visitor. And YES he was concerned for his baby!

That is simply not true.

The first immunisations are timed to coincide with the decrease of natural immunity, not maturity of the baby.

If that were the case premmies would have to wait until their corrected 8 weeks before they could be immunised, however, they are immunised 8 weeks after they arrive in the world.

The worst that would have happened is that the baby would not have full immunity and the jabs would have had to be repeated.

(Are you his wife by any chance?)

KellyGT

I've been reading this thread since it first started.

Have to say something similair happened to me i took baby for his jabs but he couldnt have them (after waiting for ages in waiting room) due to the fact the HV hadnt checked him over at 6 weeks. So we was sent back home.

Not once did i think about claiming any money, after all I am on maternity leave anyway which usually what happens when a baby has been born. I just brought it up with the surgery and HV just to point out incase something happens with somebody else similair. I have to say i'd rather my baby was checked over first so no confusion if the jabs had caused anything than it just done regardless etc.

The comments about the cost of pregnancy and childbirth are very valid too imagine if we had to pay for that!

sarahg1969

They wouldn't give your child his jabs because you hadn't seen a HV? You don't even have to see a HV. You can opt out entirely. I did last time (after previously receiving carp advice at 14 weeks that it was about time my son was off the breast and on to formula, and at 21 weeks that he should be fully weaned, "and that includes red meat").

viktory

jimkenyon wrote: »

Since when was the NHS free? I thought that we paid for it out of our NI contributions.

It is free at source and secondly, I would imagine that many, many people have more spent on them than they ever pay in.

KellyGT

sarahg1969 wrote: »

They wouldn't give your child his jabs because you hadn't seen a HV? You don't even have to see a HV. You can opt out entirely. I did last time (after previously receiving carp advice at 14 weeks that it was about time my son was off the breast and on to formula, and at 21 weeks that he should be fully weaned, "and that includes red meat").

No wonder you opt'd out thats some odd advice isnt it? :-s

Yeh they wouldnt give him his jabs cause he hadn't had the 6week check they do. I thought it was odd too but oh well no harm done i guess.

Equaliser123

viktory wrote: »

It is free at source and secondly, I would imagine that many, many people have more spent on them than they ever pay in.

Guess that is like any sort of insurance. Costs a bit upfront, but if ever you need to make a claim, thank God it is there.

Oldernotwiser

I agree that this is a wind up but just in case it isn't, perhaps the OP could say why it was necessary for him to take time off work so that both parents (one assumes the other person was the mother) could take the child to the surgery?

snapping_crocodile

pinksponge wrote: »

maybe he was worried for the sake of his baby. Supposing the admin didnt notice it, the baby could have had the jab too early! I have the redbook but none of the injections my baby has been called for have been on time! I know very well that its hard bringing up a baby for the 1st time. maybe not hard as your all thinking to the extreme but it can still be frustrating and difficult when things go wrong.

I know there are some excellent admin staff around, but it would never be left to the decison of them as to whether the baby was given the vaccinations or not. The health visitor, or practice nurse depending on who gives them, would check their records, and the red book to make sure that they were old enough to have them....it is not purely down to the admin staff noticing that the baby was not vaccinated! :cool: OP unfortunately these things happen. No system works perfectedly, and unfortunately you have had first hand experience of this. However, no body was injured/died, and you suffered no ill effects from sitting in the waiting room for all that time. Take the inconvenience on the chin and accept that mistakes happen.

TubbyFunster_2

Both my kids came with NHS instruction manuals which have held me in good stead, jam packed full of helpfull advice and dates when my child would receive routine treatment. I have it in a draw still, it last until they are five, god help them then .

As one of the two main carers for our children, I know when they are due their jabs, mistakes happen, money can't stop them and it can't fix them, you have to be more aware, the NHS is a two way business and while the government may budget its ran by your neighbours, everyday workers.

To much is expected of it, we don't want a nanny state yet we are all happy to sit about waiting for our names to be called so we know what to do next.

Shake it up people

Norant

I have a sixteen year old,a fourteen year old and a six year old.


We still have the little red instruction manuals aswell for the two older ones,keep them! its great pulling them out of the drawer every so often just to embarras them in front of the new boyfriends/girlfriends,especially the scan photos,they go down a storm in our house....:)


Naughty me.