European Health Insurance Card

[sandyRoe]

Will this card issued in the UK be valid in the New Year? If it's not I was thinking of applying for an Irish one. I have an Irish passport. Looking
on-line it seems you need to be resident in the Republic of Ireland and not N Ireland to be eligible.
What to do?

[dannyk13]

Info here:-
https://www.moneyadviceservice.org.uk/en/articles/brexit-travelling-eu-access-healthcare

[ToraToraTora]

TBH it wasn't much use anyway most of the medical facilities are private in the EUSSR.

[Atheist]

TTT, it stood me in good stead when I fell downstairs and gashed my head, and when I was stung on the toe by a bee for two consecutive days. You get treated - a carrier bag full of dressings, ointments, antibiotics etc - and then claim 90% back from the UK health service.

[Samuraisan]

Don't be ignorant TTT. The UK isn't the only country with a NHS.

[retrocop]

TTT.
My wife came a Guttzer on my motorcylce hired on Lesbos.She broke a bone in her wrist. We journied over the other side of the Island to the Emergency hospital and were in and out in about 35 minutes.Arrived at reception,seen by triage,X -Ray, bone manipulated and plastered.
The Casualty doctor even gave a copy of the X-ray plate to take back to her minor Injuries Clinic in the hospital where she worked.
When it came to leaving she couldn't produce her E111. She had swapped holiday bags at last minute.I assured the reception we both had one and produced mine. A wry grin,mutterings of ,'oh you Engleesh accompanied by rolling eyes to the heavens and we were waved on our way. Fantastic service and a clean well managed hospital that would put some of ours to shame. Even my wife,a working English nurse,acknowledged her hospital could not match the service.

[ToraToraTora]

Not ignorance me old china, experience. In my experience in every country I tried to use the E111 as it was they more or less laughed at me. That's France, Holland, Spain, Luxembourg oh I did get a tetnus jab in Ireland. So Sumarisian where have you been treated under the EUSSR NHS, or is it just more anti British BS?

[barry1010]

I got treated very well when I was taken ill in Spain - used my EHIC card no problem. I did take the time to find out where the local public healthcare hospital and doctor was when I arrived though.

[ToraToraTora]

My sister lived in Spain and when she was about to pop with my niece she went to the hospital and guess what she'd forgotten evidence of her medical cover, her husband had to go him and get it, in the meant time she could have had the baby outside on the pavement. Barbarians the lot of them.

[ToraToraTora]

there are some public hospitals in these places but it's all about where you happen to be.

[retrocop]

//here are some public hospitals in these places but it's all about where you happen to be. //

I won't disagree with you there.

[Samuraisan]

Better not come here then TTT. If you present yourself at a private hospital you will not get treated free. Probably the same the world over. We have plenty NHS hospitals and clinics all over the country that are very efficient. Your NHS love our Spanish nurses I believe.

[ToraToraTora]

In Luxembourg I was told there was no use for the E111 / EHIC good job I had good medical cover or they'd have probably left me on the side of the road.

[Chinajan]

Every EU nation has a state healthcare system as I said to ToraToraTora the last time he trotted out this nonsense, and it is untrue to say that 'most medical facilities are private'. Provision certainly varies from country to country but basically, where there are people there are GP surgeries and public hospitals within reach.

All academic after 31 December of course - unless the UK chooses to seek agreement to participate in the scheme despite not being EU members - as several other non-EU nations currently do.

If you choose to quote any of this, ToraToraTora, then do not change any part of my text - you did that last time and had yet another post of yours removed.

[ToraToraTora]

"Better not come here then TTT. If you present yourself at a private hospital you will not get treated free." - but most of them are Private that's the point. Where is "here"?

[bednobs]

sam lives in spain I believe.
If you turned up at a private hospital here in the UK you would not get free treatment

[ToraToraTora]

you pro EUSSR types can trot out your self deluding BS as much as you like my experience says different. The fact is they are little better than the USA.

[Sqad]

I am sick and tired of the experience of TTT,s sister, he rolls it out time and time again........give it a rest...."my old China "

[douglas9401]

A stroll into a BUPA, Spire or other private hospital in t'UK would result in the same 'barbarism' you imagine on the continent.

No pay no play.

[bednobs]

https://www.statista.com/statistics/486355/number-of-public-and-private-hospitals-in-spain-by-region/
some areas are around 50/50

[ToraToraTora]

yes bednobs but private hospitals are comparatively rare in the UK and if you need treatment they don't take you to them by default. You see we have THE civilised system.