Elite 11+ shopping and chat thread

pippo

Sunshinemummy wrote: »

I have been in Notts court all week..... I bet I have spoken to her as I tend to talk to everyone... even the ones from the back of beyond!

Oh SMM you really shouldn't talk to everyone, especially at court, but i always did!

vanilla_twist

Enterprise_1701C wrote: »

I personally would bring in ID cards, then anything normally free for us Brits would require an ID card to be shown, if you always carry an ID card then you would always be able to prove you were entitled to the treatment.

If a non-british person turned up asking for "emergency" treatment I would expect them to have insurance or would demand advance payment for as much as the treatment could cost, and if it cost less they would get a refund. If they could not provide payment then they would be invited to go to a country where they could get treatment, ideally back to the country they just flew in from.

I know there are absolute emergencies, in which case the minimum treatment should be given, and the person then handed to the police until they provided payment.

I would certainly question anyone turning up with a suitcase.

What the programme didn't address was treatment of European citizens. I believe the arrangement is to bill their country for the healthcare they receive but would love to know if those bills are paid.
I do remember quite a few years ago being in a and E and an American gentleman had been taken off a cruise ship after a heart attack. They kept him in a and e until his flight home instead of admitting him. I presume once admitted he might have had to stay as too ill to fly and it was obvious he wanted to go home.

V x

pippo

bubbs wrote: »

I put £10 petrol in last time and got 5000 back £25:j:j:j

Well done you!!

pippo

Snap-ant wrote: »

Fourp home & he has gone to collect Crispy Sesame chicken, seaweed, salt & pepper prawns :D

Ah he is back :T

Please can you share ??

bubbs

pippo wrote: »

Please can you share ??

Im just eating a waities choc shortbread biccie or 3 :eek:if you want one:rotfl::rotfl:

Enterprise_1701C

vanilla_twist wrote: »

What the programme didn't address was treatment of European citizens. I believe the arrangement is to bill their country for the healthcare they receive but would love to know if those bills are paid.
I do remember quite a few years ago being in a and E and an American gentleman had been taken off a cruise ship after a heart attack. They kept him in a and e until his flight home instead of admitting him. I presume once admitted he might have had to stay as too ill to fly and it was obvious he wanted to go home.

V x

Snippet from Sky news

"The UK pays more than £670m to EU countries for Britons' healthcare abroad, while claiming back less than £50m from the EU"

What I cannot understand is there is now many layers of management in hospitals, but apparently they do not have time to recover money from other countries.

Sunshinemummy

abailey54 wrote: »

Morning all, Happy S Day :j:rotfl:

Trip number one was 2 x petrol (1 x 5000 :j and 1 x 200) and 4 x shops (2 x clothes, 2 x groceries) - 3 x 200 and 1 x 500 = 6300 points on £60 spend

I'm hoping to take a long lunch break to do the other shops later. Lovely lady in the petrol station was joking with me about a man who went in 11 times and then said 'I'm going back for the wife's car' - was that one of you?

Good luck everyone

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P2TKL wrote: »

Took me ages to find it too...click on find out more which is at the bottom of the soup recipes

I am still scratching my head!

vanilla_twist wrote: »

She had been going to America but as she couldn't prove how she would pay her medical bills so they wouldn't let her in so she was packed off back to Nigeria. Became ill on plane as diverted to London.
She had family in America but none of them would have been able to pay her medical expenses.
Not unavoidable as really shouldn't have been travelling at 6 months pregnant with quads to a country she had no right to enter.

Must have been traumatic for her and bless only 2 babies still living.

V x

Whilst I really don't like the idea of the UK being used... I would hate to think that we were the type of country that turns away a pregnant lady as she could not afford medical care. Those 2 babies are alive because the UK has a heart, and that makes me very proud to be British. x

pippo

vanilla_twist wrote: »

What the programme didn't address was treatment of European citizens. I believe the arrangement is to bill their country for the healthcare they receive but would love to know if those bills are paid.
I do remember quite a few years ago being in a and E and an American gentleman had been taken off a cruise ship after a heart attack. They kept him in a and e until his flight home instead of admitting him. I presume once admitted he might have had to stay as too ill to fly and it was obvious he wanted to go home.

V x

I ended up having meningitis in Spain about 15 years ago, and I was there with work... Ambulances demanded payment there and then.
Insurance shipped out DH, within 2 hours they had taken all the cash he had off him!

Enterprise_1701C

Sunshinemummy wrote: »

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I am still scratching my head!



Whilst I really don't like the idea of the UK being used... I would hate to think that we were the type of country that turns away a pregnant lady as she could not afford medical care. Those 2 babies are alive because the UK has a heart, and that makes me very proud to be British. x

That would have been classed as an absolute emergency. And we would be trying to claim the money from Nigeria if I had my way.

bubbs

pippo wrote: »

I ended up having meningitis in Spain about 15 years ago, and I was there with work... Ambulances demanded payment there and then.
Insurance shipped out DH, within 2 hours they had taken all the cash he had off him!

We was in a bad hotel fire in Austria , both taken to hospital along with multiple other guests, we didnt have to do anything had and E111? think it was called then, then when we got home insurance sorted it, no probs:T