>>>> 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.
As I said, sometimes the health board pays, sometimes the patient does.
Health boards within the NHS can pay anybody they want to get the
treatment done - it's not a regular practice, and health boards vary a
lot in how often they do it, but the system allows for it.
It wouldn't surprise me if some NHS employees (like your daughter)
didn't know this could happen. Most of them won't encounter it and
aren't affected by the possibility in any way, so why should they
know about it?
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