Would we get hospitalized for sever morning sickness?
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talulahgosh
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It is a devolved government though.
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I've gone a few months without my inhalers too as couldn't afford the perscription and nope I don't qualify for exemption card (well now I'm pregnant I do but that will run out when baby is a year)
Income support etc is covered but incapacity benafits are not
Income support etc is covered but incapacity benafits are not
I do think that even if there are prescription charges anything like inhalers that are needed should be free, even if only because if someone ends up in hospital because they couldn't afford the fee how much does that cost the NHS!
NHS Wales is totally seperate from the NHS in england. They get a budget and they can choose where they spend it. Wales choose to spend it on free prescriptions. England choose to spend it elsewhere.
Allthough I did read a report that it costs England so much to administrate the system where you have to apply for free prescriptiosn on means testing etc... that Wales are no worse off just paying for everyones and not having to have all the paperwork.
Allthough I did read a report that it costs England so much to administrate the system where you have to apply for free prescriptiosn on means testing etc... that Wales are no worse off just paying for everyones and not having to have all the paperwork.
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I think this thread is very strange and I'm only on page 2 lol... However I do feel like I need to say something... It may be off topic but it seems the thread was a little that way anyway...
The NHS is vastly undervalued by almost everyone who uses it. I am fine with private health care and I work for both the NHS and the private sector... However... The NHS provides each and every one of us living in the UK instant access to the very best in health care provisions, granted it can be slow, I'm currently residing on an understaffed ward where the poor midwives are rushing constantly from one nurse bleep to the next. Yet just 2 (or is it 3 now?) days ago I had emergency life saving surgery that saved both me and my unborn child (and no I'm not being over dramatic) the choices made by every single member of medical staff involved in my care were choices made on best outcome and not choices influenced by insurance cover, cost or where I am or unable to be treated... The drugs I received post surgery were expensive (and I'm talking thousands per dose) and I can honestly say that although obviously being staff I had some perks ANY of you ladies coming through the door of my hospital presenting with a similar set of problems and symptoms would have been treated exactly the same by best and not most cost effective outcome. I feel people are often quick to criticise the care handed out by the NHS and yes agree in some certain circumstances and situations awful errors are made and people receive substandard treatment but I don't believe for a second that is exclusive to the NHS (in fact I know it isn't) and I do think that people forget about what the same level of care would cost in another country, of course there are ways to jump queues and maybe get treatment quicker and private medical care had its place but ,think, as an example... To pick the hospital of your choice in the uk is free (ok obviously we pay tax before someone points out the obvious) to all uk tax payers, to choose your midwife or dr is free, to receive drugs that are more costly because they are safer in pregnancy is free, to have a bed where you can be monitored when your ill with HG is free, to be moved to a high dependency bed is free, to room in with your poorly baby is free... I have a friend in the US who's insurance didn't cover her going into prem labour outside of her state and has so far in 10 weeks racked up a bill of $42000 and has to make choices for her baby based on cost and NOT best outcome...
Personally I think the NHS is great certain royal privileges with added private health care or not.
The NHS is vastly undervalued by almost everyone who uses it. I am fine with private health care and I work for both the NHS and the private sector... However... The NHS provides each and every one of us living in the UK instant access to the very best in health care provisions, granted it can be slow, I'm currently residing on an understaffed ward where the poor midwives are rushing constantly from one nurse bleep to the next. Yet just 2 (or is it 3 now?) days ago I had emergency life saving surgery that saved both me and my unborn child (and no I'm not being over dramatic) the choices made by every single member of medical staff involved in my care were choices made on best outcome and not choices influenced by insurance cover, cost or where I am or unable to be treated... The drugs I received post surgery were expensive (and I'm talking thousands per dose) and I can honestly say that although obviously being staff I had some perks ANY of you ladies coming through the door of my hospital presenting with a similar set of problems and symptoms would have been treated exactly the same by best and not most cost effective outcome. I feel people are often quick to criticise the care handed out by the NHS and yes agree in some certain circumstances and situations awful errors are made and people receive substandard treatment but I don't believe for a second that is exclusive to the NHS (in fact I know it isn't) and I do think that people forget about what the same level of care would cost in another country, of course there are ways to jump queues and maybe get treatment quicker and private medical care had its place but ,think, as an example... To pick the hospital of your choice in the uk is free (ok obviously we pay tax before someone points out the obvious) to all uk tax payers, to choose your midwife or dr is free, to receive drugs that are more costly because they are safer in pregnancy is free, to have a bed where you can be monitored when your ill with HG is free, to be moved to a high dependency bed is free, to room in with your poorly baby is free... I have a friend in the US who's insurance didn't cover her going into prem labour outside of her state and has so far in 10 weeks racked up a bill of $42000 and has to make choices for her baby based on cost and NOT best outcome...
Personally I think the NHS is great certain royal privileges with added private health care or not.
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I've gone a few months without my inhalers too as couldn't afford the perscription and nope I don't qualify for exemption card (well now I'm pregnant I do but that will run out when baby is a year)
Income support etc is covered but incapacity benafits are not
Sweetie have you looked into the HC2 and HC3 certificates? You should be entitled if you are only receiving icb xxx
http://www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/HealthCosts/1136.aspx
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Absolutely Flips.
And it is utterly shameful that so few people in the UK know who Aneurin Bevan was despite all of us having seen a doctor, dentist etc. Society owes so much to him.
I am not in the UK any more and am having private care (thankfully fully funded by insurance which my husband's employer provides) my hospital bills are well over £45,000 GBP so far and this pregnancy isn't nearly over. People don't think of that when they complain to wait a day for a doctor appointment or that they don't get a private room. Sure, I can see my doctor in an instant and I will get a fancy room, but without insurance (and not everyone has it) I receive a bill that will bankrupt most people.
I am sorry for your friend that she has to make those choices based on cost rather than what is best. What a sorry state of affairs in what is a supposed 'first world country'.
And it is utterly shameful that so few people in the UK know who Aneurin Bevan was despite all of us having seen a doctor, dentist etc. Society owes so much to him.
I am not in the UK any more and am having private care (thankfully fully funded by insurance which my husband's employer provides) my hospital bills are well over £45,000 GBP so far and this pregnancy isn't nearly over. People don't think of that when they complain to wait a day for a doctor appointment or that they don't get a private room. Sure, I can see my doctor in an instant and I will get a fancy room, but without insurance (and not everyone has it) I receive a bill that will bankrupt most people.
I am sorry for your friend that she has to make those choices based on cost rather than what is best. What a sorry state of affairs in what is a supposed 'first world country'.
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Yeah we don't qualify flips as hubby earns just over 30k even tho 99% of it goes on bills to keep roof over our head and food in our bellies.
It's the same as that stupid childcare thing where if 1 parent earns more than 20k they get bugger all but if it's 2 parents they can earn over 40k before the bugger all cut off.
So wrong- should be other way round.
It's the same as that stupid childcare thing where if 1 parent earns more than 20k they get bugger all but if it's 2 parents they can earn over 40k before the bugger all cut off.
So wrong- should be other way round.
A friend of mine moved away a few years ago to work. His job??? In a and e basically when say a stabbing or shooting comes in whatever they use eg swabs, dressings, drugs he scans every packet and puts it in a massive bin so that person can be charged! So when people moan about waiting an hour in gp surgery count your blessings lol
On a separate note I heard from a good source the reason Kate Middleton walked out with flowers is the smell is helping her not be sick and she didn't want to vomit in front of the press! I did something similar lol it's so just goes to show how much she is like us!
On a separate note I heard from a good source the reason Kate Middleton walked out with flowers is the smell is helping her not be sick and she didn't want to vomit in front of the press! I did something similar lol it's so just goes to show how much she is like us!
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So sorry about this thread, it seems to have got a bit out of hand lol!
Hope no one is offended and i literally just wanted to no a simple answer but it got alot more than that. I didnt no about hg i just thought she had severe morning sikness. i dont read the news or watch it. Just listen on the radio.
Sorry x
Hope no one is offended and i literally just wanted to no a simple answer but it got alot more than that. I didnt no about hg i just thought she had severe morning sikness. i dont read the news or watch it. Just listen on the radio.
Sorry x
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Am totally loving the randomness of this thread. How on earth did it go from puking royal to prescription charges to free carier bags, back to posh puking bird? (I may have missed several pages!)
Awesome! Though I see someone on this forum has been told by their doctor that morning sickness is all the rage now princessy-wifey has it? that sucks!
Awesome! Though I see someone on this forum has been told by their doctor that morning sickness is all the rage now princessy-wifey has it? that sucks!
Stupid doctor!!! Can't blame princessy-wifey for that tho lol
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Loving the thread too! I may have had some involvement in the 5p carrier bag thing...
I didn't know the reason why she was carrying the flowers...very interesting.
Shame the story has turned into such a high profile negative story about the poor nurse.
I feel incredibly sorry for anyone suffering with HG...I have your average, queasiness, puking now and again, morning sickness and I have been such a winger!
I didn't know the reason why she was carrying the flowers...very interesting.
Shame the story has turned into such a high profile negative story about the poor nurse.
I feel incredibly sorry for anyone suffering with HG...I have your average, queasiness, puking now and again, morning sickness and I have been such a winger!
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hyperemesis is severe ms. does severe ms sound like nothing lol.
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To be fair to the title of the thread as I've missed quite a bit...
My friend was admitted to hospital for severe morning sickness and was in for days hooked up to drips and trying to stop the sickness. I was also told by gp at 5 month that I would be admitted since I couldn't keep anything down (due to a bug) but sickness/dehydration none the less..
I think with the whole situ, who cares? She's got the money and I'm sure if we all had the money etc we'd get ourselves properly looked after, I think she's only doing right by her LO? It's not to say she deserves special treatment anymore than the rest but if you have the funds or whatever go for it... You don't hear people being judged for going for a private early scan yet this is an extra if you like? I say this as someone I spoke to was quite annoyed but really she is no different from any of us.
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My friend was admitted to hospital for severe morning sickness and was in for days hooked up to drips and trying to stop the sickness. I was also told by gp at 5 month that I would be admitted since I couldn't keep anything down (due to a bug) but sickness/dehydration none the less..
I think with the whole situ, who cares? She's got the money and I'm sure if we all had the money etc we'd get ourselves properly looked after, I think she's only doing right by her LO? It's not to say she deserves special treatment anymore than the rest but if you have the funds or whatever go for it... You don't hear people being judged for going for a private early scan yet this is an extra if you like? I say this as someone I spoke to was quite annoyed but really she is no different from any of us.
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so you are the reason I have enough bags for life to last the next 7 generations of my family in the boot of my car!
