Are You a health Tourist the thieving governments

wanderer


Joined: 05/02/2009
Posts: 1653

Message Posted:
04/02/2011 21:30

A nurse who devoted 40 years of her life to the NHS was refused a free cancer scan because she volunteered to help terminally-ill patients abroad - for just three months.

Cancer nurse Ann Read, 66, became illegible for free care after she retired last year and volunteered to work with terminally ill patients in the Amazon rainforest.

She returned home in December following a cancer scare but was stunned when bosses at the Addenbrooke's Hospital, in Cambridge, branded her a health tourist and tried to charge her £900.





Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1353580/NHS-cancer-nurse-Ann-Read-denied-free-scan-branded-health-tourist.html#ixzz1D1JC0wEt

DutchCrusader



Joined: 19/05/2008
Posts: 11281

Message Posted:
04/02/2011 21:38

Why do some board members seem to think that other C44 members can't find the Daily Mail web site themselves..?!

fosterscan


Joined: 27/02/2010
Posts: 541

Message Posted:
04/02/2011 21:40

Dutch and you never post links !

wanderer


Joined: 05/02/2009
Posts: 1653

Message Posted:
04/02/2011 21:47

perhaps The Dutch government lets you have treatment after you've paid your taxes as opposed to the Uk government that will let every Tom dick and harry claim apart from those who have contributed

DutchCrusader



Joined: 19/05/2008
Posts: 11281

Message Posted:
04/02/2011 21:53

RE msg 3, fosterscan: Yes, I do. In case you can't find The Times web site:

▶ http://www.thebigproject.co.uk/news/

fosterscan


Joined: 27/02/2010
Posts: 541

Message Posted:
04/02/2011 21:56

Cheers its not that i cant find them its that i dont bother, so if something that some one finds interesting pops up then a link always helps.

Lilli



Joined: 21/07/2008
Posts: 13081

Message Posted:
04/02/2011 22:02

I was told today by someone who still has her buisness in the UK. You are unemployable and you wont get a penny by signing on. Dont even try to sign on with a GP. No hope then which i do feel sad about OK I get my pension but i always thought they would take care of thier own. Now If I go back it will be as an immigrant x

fosterscan


Joined: 27/02/2010
Posts: 541

Message Posted:
04/02/2011 22:05

lilli you may have to wait a while but they would look after you.

wanderer


Joined: 05/02/2009
Posts: 1653

Message Posted:
04/02/2011 22:19

lilli I'm still in the UK but its wrong

You've served your time paid your dues

and if drawing a pension probably paying UK tax

and they say F

also just watching a programme and if you draw your state pension abroad they fix the exchange rate at the date you draw it at least for Australia

newscoop


Joined: 23/12/2007
Posts: 2197

Message Posted:
04/02/2011 22:41

They fix the pension in Canada as well.

Maz


Joined: 29/03/2009
Posts: 1924

Message Posted:
04/02/2011 23:26

The waiting period to receive help used to bed 6 months. Maybe it hasn't changed, but how the heck you wait 6 months in U.K if you do not have money to live on, I don't know. But at least it is something.



Sadly, youneed to change your nationality to Iraqi and land with 10 kids and the world is your oyster.

harita


Joined: 14/08/2008
Posts: 1343

Message Posted:
04/02/2011 23:27

And South Africa

wanderer


Joined: 05/02/2009
Posts: 1653

Message Posted:
05/02/2011 02:02

Maz if I stay 90 days in the TRNC do I end up the same as this ex nurse refused I still have a UK place and pay uk tax and have paid tax since I was 16

Sorry Dave and the big society is the big con

Brinsley


Joined: 04/04/2009
Posts: 6858

Message Posted:
05/02/2011 02:35

Get bugger all from the NZ Government unless tethered to a Maori totem pole outside a Marae!



Richard