On Fri, 22 Feb 2008 11:28:36 +0000, Jack Campin - bogus address
wrote:
>>> 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).
and your gf provides her services free to the NHS? I don't think so.
My daughter works for the NHS. Any private treatment that is done outside the
NHS has to be paid for.
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Martin
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