re: #366 harpsicon

wow. Sweeping, much?
My mum was taken ill in the middle of the night three weeks ago - we called an ambulance. It arrived within 10 minutes.
She started undergoing tests immediately. When an MRI was needed she was taken straight through on the guerny.

She was in for 4 days for further tests and supervision. Total cost - 12 for two prescriptons of complex medicines.

I have gone to my GP with chronic stomach pains a couple of years back and was sent straight to the A&E where i had an ultrasound within a couple of hours. Luckilly nothing serious.

My father, last year, presnted to the GP with dryness in his mouth - within two weeks he was seeing a cancer specialist and had a biopsy. false alarm - luckilly. he got all the meds he needed for free after paying a one off 90 to the NHS for that years precriptions for all his various conditions.

People presenting at their GP surgery with none urgent or none specific complaints have to wait longer than prospective cancer patients. It’s up to the GP as first point of contact to make the right call about treatment - but it’s a call they make on treatment - not cost.

Link to the taking apart of the Cancer Survival meme.

scienceblog.cancerresearchuk.org