Do you know any one who has emigrated??

[Sinbad]

I am guessing that you might be getting a few people asking for your broker's details. Seems like you are getting a few good deals there.

As I said, that one's a work group life thing.

 

[Sinbad]

ps, don't show my wife this thread pls. :erm:

 

[The_Right_Honourable_Brit]

Hmmm...I heard some horror stories about the NHS. How long it takes to get an appointment at a GP, the nurses not caring for the elderly and foreign workers not being able to communicate clearly in English.

 

[Sinbad]

Hmmm...I heard some horror stories about the NHS. How long it takes to get an appointment at a GP, the nurses not caring for the elderly and foreign workers not being able to communicate clearly in English.

Had no issues the couple of times I needed a GP in the UK. And the one in my area was SMOKING hot ...

 

[bwana]

Hmmm...I heard some horror stories about the NHS. How long it takes to get an appointment at a GP, the nurses not caring for the elderly and foreign workers not being able to communicate clearly in English.

Never had any problems myself - nor have my kids when they've gotten ill during our annual holiday visits.

 

[S1ght]

Hmmm...I heard some horror stories about the NHS. How long it takes to get an appointment at a GP, the nurses not caring for the elderly and foreign workers not being able to communicate clearly in English.

I used the NHS in Bryanston twice over the last 2 weeks. Booked an appointment online with a GP and went the next day in both cases...

 

[Sinbad]

I used the NHS in Bryanston twice over the last 2 weeks. Booked an appointment online with a GP and went the next day in both cases...

NHS in Bryanston != NHS in the UK ........

 

[S1ght]

NHS in Bryanston != NHS in the UK ........

I'm probably missing something then cause the only post I saw about NHS was the post I quoted and I automatically assumed he was talking about the NHS' in SA >.<

 

[bwana]

I'm probably missing something then cause the only post I saw about NHS was the post I quoted and I automatically assumed he was talking about the NHS' in SA >.<

Does SA have a functioning national health service similar to the one enjoyed in the UK?

 

[Sinbad]

Does SA have a functioning national health service similar to the one enjoyed in the UK?

There's a company here called NHS

 

[bwana]

There's a company here called NHS

Ah - ok.

 

[The_Right_Honourable_Brit]

Never had any problems myself - nor have my kids when they've gotten ill during our annual holiday visits.

Maybe I'm reading too much of the wrong parts of the media :twisted:.

However, although private healthcare is very expensive here, it is very good. I wonder if anyone here can make a comparison between private healthcare (SA) and NHS (UK) and have lived in both countries for 5+ years or so.

 

[Sinbad]

Maybe I'm reading too much of the wrong parts of the media :twisted:.

However, although private healthcare is very expensive here, it is very good. I wonder if anyone here can make a comparison between private healthcare (SA) and NHS (UK) and have lived in both countries for 5+ years or so.

I was in UK for 5 years. Never hospitalized but my experience of outpatient NHS was better than my experience of private outpatient here.

 

[bwana]

Maybe I'm reading too much of the wrong parts of the media :twisted:.

However, although private healthcare is very expensive here, it is very good. I wonder if anyone here can make a comparison between private healthcare (SA) and NHS (UK) and have lived in both countries for 5+ years or so.

I find the level of care comparable. If I want to see a specific GP in the UK then I might have to wait longer than if I'm happy to see any GP at the same practice - same goes for our local Medicross.

In the UK I also pay a flat rate for prescriptions and nothing for the kids.

 

[Sinbad]

Yup the flat rate medication swung it for me. None of this managing savings accounts, self payment gaps etc

 

[Jola]

Had no issues the couple of times I needed a GP in the UK. And the one in my area was SMOKING hot ...

So you became a hypochondriac ?

 

[Dave]

Hmmm...I heard some horror stories about the NHS. How long it takes to get an appointment at a GP, the nurses not caring for the elderly and foreign workers not being able to communicate clearly in English.

The NHS has been declared the best healthcare system by an international panel of experts who rated its care superior to countries which spend far more on health.

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/jun/17/nhs-health

 

[zippy]

Maybe I'm reading too much of the wrong parts of the media :twisted:.

However, although private healthcare is very expensive here, it is very good. I wonder if anyone here can make a comparison between private healthcare (SA) and NHS (UK) and have lived in both countries for 5+ years or so.

of course there will be instances of bad experiences. Its not like someones good experience of the NHS is going to make the daily mail is it ?

 

[Alan]

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/jun/17/nhs-health

The NHS’s medical director will spell out the failings of 14 trusts in England, which between them have been responsible for up to 13,000 “excess deaths” since 2005.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/h...0-died-needlessly-at-14-worst-NHS-trusts.html

Forty-three hospital patients starved to death last year and 111 died of thirst while being treated on wards, new figures disclose today.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/h...arve-and-die-of-thirst-on-hospital-wards.html

 

[Midnight_choir_drunk]

Yep, totally agree. I had mentioned it in one of my earlier walls of text. Insurance/security/medical aid costs in SA should not be underestimated. You can easily drop R10 000 per month on that in a family of 4 living in a nice house, running 2+ cars.

Life insurance for instance. Costs like 7 or 8 pounds (R150) for £200 000 cover. The same "Value" of cover in SA (R3,500,000) Would cost around R3,200 or so.
Household contents is also pretty much the same.

If you are paying 3200 rand for R3 500 000 life cover then you must be really old, juandiced and obese or really, really ripped off.