>> It is just plain rubbish if the NHS insists "either we pay what we
>> consider appropriate or you pay the lot and we do not pay a penny".
> It's not rubbish, it's the rule, you either have NHS treatment or you
> have private treatment.
You're talking bollocks. My girlfriend is a state registered dietitian
but works privately (treating food and environmental allergies and
conditions like autism - she'd much prefer to be doing this in the NHS
but it doesn't have any vacancies in the field). She gets referrals
from NHS practitioners regularly. Sometimes local health boards fund
her consultations, sometimes the patient pays. None of her patients
have ever been told they can't have both, and the system is perfectly
capable of coordinating treatment between the NHS and other therapists
(e.g. a hospital specialist refers a patient to her, she prescribes a
regimen for the patient and her recommendations end up back in an NHS
doctor's file on the patient).
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