Surprise charge from hospital after trip to A&E

Zedicus

Idiophreak wrote: »

Vroosh. That was the sound of the point going right over your head...

Badger_Lady wrote: »

I think the point is that OP said 'signs in the waiting room were pointless because I had concussion and couldn't read them'. However OnW is pointing out that another person was in the waiting room with OP and was presumably 100% capable of reading and understanding the signs.

Oh, I'm sorry. Did you need a 'sarcasm' flag to alert you? Looking at some of the stupidity in this thread I should have realised that someone would have been unable to handle even the tiniest amount of subtlety.

Zedicus

Azari wrote: »

I think he was being intentionally sarcastic.

Thank goodness SOMEONE got it without needing it pointed out.

looby75

my daughter (18) went to hospital a couple of weeks ago with suspected kidney stones, after they had x-rayed and ultrasound scanned her, taken enough blood to feed a vampire for a month, they decided she in fact had a UTI high up in her bladder, gave her antibiotics and pain killers.

She wasn't charged, they never asked if she was still in education or anything like that so wouldn't have known she was exempt from a charge.

biscit

LisaB85 wrote: »

I'm on IB JSA at the mo do I still pay? x

Do you normally pay prescription charges?

Idiophreak

Zedicus wrote: »

Oh, I'm sorry. Did you need a 'sarcasm' flag to alert you? Looking at some of the stupidity in this thread I should have realised that someone would have been unable to handle even the tiniest amount of subtlety.

Hmm, I've tried reading it with "sarcastic tone" and I still don't get it. Are you confusing "sarcasm" with "trying to be funny"?

Anyway, looking at some of the stupidity on this thread you can't blame us for taking your post at face value...

Azari

copa_feela wrote: »

Are you incapable of saying anything without being so rude? You come across as a thoroughly horrible person.

Yes, I often post without being rude.

This thread, however, is particularly annoying as a small number of smug, self righteous, idiots are being thoroughly unsympathetic to someone who has suffered from being incompetently dealt with when unwell and, in addition, are demonstrating peculiarly high levels of stupidity whilst doing so.

When a so called 'qualified' nurse believes that everyone in the country should know the idiosyncrasies of the NHS drug charging rules in hospitals - particularly when these rules are not even consistent from hospital to hospital she should be called out both for her lack of intelligence and her lack of sympathy.

BillTrac

Well my local walk in centre has signs everywhere informing people that there is a £7.40 charge per item.

And there is a machine to take your money, although it only takes cash:mad:

Zedicus

Idiophreak wrote: »

Anyway, looking at some of the stupidity on this thread you can't blame us for taking your post at face value...

I suppose that's true. I just assumed that because the question was so utterly stupid that taking it at face value would obviously be assumed to be sarcasm.

heretolearn_2

In an A&E two years ago I wasn't charged for the drugs I was directly handed by the staff. When I had to return and got a paper prescription from them, I had to pay as usual. So I also would assume that if the medicine were just handed to me it was free as part of hospital treatment.

Maybe the rules vary from place to place? Maybe they have changed?

I was quite shocked to get charged more than the £7.25 at one point, I thought that was the charge per prescription as in piece of paper, I didn't realise it was per item. Two of them weren't important and I'd have asked the doctor not to put them on if I'd realised (one was only paracetamol!). The pharmacist refused to only supply the one item though, it was all or nothing. Cost me a bomb very unexpectedly.

Prior to all this (one year of related issues) I hadn't had a prescription for over 10 years, so how would I know how it all works now?

Idiophreak

heretolearn wrote: »

Prior to all this (one year of related issues) I hadn't had a prescription for over 10 years, so how would I know how it all works now?

You live in the UK...apparently everyone here knows this stuff!