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What should healthy adults be screened for regularly?
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We all know that prevention is better than cure and lots of people have died from diseases that could have been cured if they had been found sooner. What exactly are we supposed to do if we are healthy and do not know we have got anything? I am a 39 year old male who does not have any major health probems but I have heard of Wellwoman and Wellman clinics. What exactly are those and what do they screen for?
Thanks in advance for your speedy and helpful replies and hopefully you may be able to save someone's life with your sensible answer.
Thanks in advance for your speedy and helpful replies and hopefully you may be able to save someone's life with your sensible answer.
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Boxtops, As you have just mentioned it, the O.A.Ps (65+) at our surgery have been having MOTs for the last 10 years or so.
Those under 70 go to the clinic while those over 70 get seen to at home, blood tests, B.P. and general questions about capability, etc.
Obviously we are lucky to have such a good surgery.
Those under 70 go to the clinic while those over 70 get seen to at home, blood tests, B.P. and general questions about capability, etc.
Obviously we are lucky to have such a good surgery.
Sqad...You are pushing me to points which I felt were to be avoided.
OK...If I now agree with you...What say you of such private operations being performed upon patients who live outside of the 'catchment' area and are booked into NHS hospitals under false names and addresses. Furthermore, what would be your reaction to a Highly qualified Doctor who opens a Private Maternity home and registers it in the names of his wife and children and engages himself as the Consultant/Surgeon to the establishment.
I could add more about NHS fees paid for second opinions, which could equate to what we have heard about fiddling by MPs. However, I feel sure you will know what I mean.
Ron
OK...If I now agree with you...What say you of such private operations being performed upon patients who live outside of the 'catchment' area and are booked into NHS hospitals under false names and addresses. Furthermore, what would be your reaction to a Highly qualified Doctor who opens a Private Maternity home and registers it in the names of his wife and children and engages himself as the Consultant/Surgeon to the establishment.
I could add more about NHS fees paid for second opinions, which could equate to what we have heard about fiddling by MPs. However, I feel sure you will know what I mean.
Ron
Not sure this applies in all cases, my ma had to beg to be seen and taken seriously at her sugery, she is elderly, though not decrepit, and they had ample opportunity to diagnose her cancer, and missed it each time, even though she was showing symptoms for long enough.
After her operation it was another catalogue of failure by all concerned.
After her operation it was another catalogue of failure by all concerned.
we're encouraged by our surgery to have an MOT once a year round about our birthday, which includes a blood test for number of things - liver function, glucose and choresterol to name a few - and a blood pressure check. it's also used as an opportunity to have a chat with your gp about any concerns you might have. i'm not sure but i imagine it's for over 50s.
Needy potential PP's can wait their turn like everyone else, rather than push in. Health treatment ought not be a purchasable luxury, but considered a right of the country's citizens. If the NHS need the extra income, then there is something wrong with the funding system. If they deliberately leave beds available for the sole use of PPs, instead of using them to cut the waiting queue, then there's something wrong with the resource management system
Old -Geezer....there is something wrong.......and that is the NHS is unaffordable in it's present form. The country cannot afford it.
Health shouldn't perhaps be a "purchasable luxury" but it IS and the NHS is thankful for the income from private practice.
The is also the question of personal choice in health care...........who do you want, when do you want it and where do you want it doing.
Without the private sector and private input, which has increased during the Labour Government, the NHS would collapse.
Health shouldn't perhaps be a "purchasable luxury" but it IS and the NHS is thankful for the income from private practice.
The is also the question of personal choice in health care...........who do you want, when do you want it and where do you want it doing.
Without the private sector and private input, which has increased during the Labour Government, the NHS would collapse.
You describe a situation where the NHS has found a work-around to financial problems, rather than tackling the real cause. If private income is being seen as vital then the solution must surely be to increase funding from taxation rather than accept a situation where a national healthcare system sees itself in the marketplace competing for paid work. And maybe the other half of the answer is to look at the 'health' conditions the NHS presently deal with, and see if some ought to be moved into the non-vital healthcare list, and dropped?
I can only speak from my own experience of myself and others in Private Practice over a period of 30 years as an NHS Consultant.
Of cause, like other trades, professions,public sector workers and private sector workers, there is always the opportunity for "little fiddles", no big deal, but "perks" all the same............and the medical profession is no different.
To indulge in private practice, one has to take a drop on salary, but continue to give the same service............what union member would accept that?
You do have a point in that many private hospitals do not have the same facilities as the NHS hospitals, but this is improving and during the last 10years of my "time" consulting in 3 private hospitals , the facilities were adequate. This is the same in NHS hospitals, some are excellent, some adequate and some, really sub standard.
Private Practice is hard work.....you build it up by giving a good service in the NHS , so patients in the NHS benefit.
I don't think that i have given the answer that you wanted, but please come back to me with any queries.
Of cause, like other trades, professions,public sector workers and private sector workers, there is always the opportunity for "little fiddles", no big deal, but "perks" all the same............and the medical profession is no different.
To indulge in private practice, one has to take a drop on salary, but continue to give the same service............what union member would accept that?
You do have a point in that many private hospitals do not have the same facilities as the NHS hospitals, but this is improving and during the last 10years of my "time" consulting in 3 private hospitals , the facilities were adequate. This is the same in NHS hospitals, some are excellent, some adequate and some, really sub standard.
Private Practice is hard work.....you build it up by giving a good service in the NHS , so patients in the NHS benefit.
I don't think that i have given the answer that you wanted, but please come back to me with any queries.
Private practice is normally additional to NHS service and, this being the case, I am at a loss to appreciate that a reduced salary would ensue.
Is it not the case that Consultants in NHS hospitals are provided with Secretaries and full use of Telephones, Computers etc. on which they spend time organising their private practice to the exclusion of other, perhaps, more serious cases for which they are not being paid fees. !!??
Ron.
Is it not the case that Consultants in NHS hospitals are provided with Secretaries and full use of Telephones, Computers etc. on which they spend time organising their private practice to the exclusion of other, perhaps, more serious cases for which they are not being paid fees. !!??
Ron.
Ron....at a loss you may be.....but that is the case.....to do Private Practice one has to drop 2/11 of your NHS salary, but still provide the 11/11 of the NHS work.
I can only go by my experiences....NHS secretaries and Private Practice secretaries are separate, although you can well imagine that there has to be some overlap at certain times...e.g where is Mr S this morning? Mrs S wantsthis patient seen privately put on his NHS waiting list.......etc.
Again. not the answer that you wanted i fear.
I can only go by my experiences....NHS secretaries and Private Practice secretaries are separate, although you can well imagine that there has to be some overlap at certain times...e.g where is Mr S this morning? Mrs S wantsthis patient seen privately put on his NHS waiting list.......etc.
Again. not the answer that you wanted i fear.
Squad.......I would suggest that the 2/11 drop in NHS salary is offset by all the perks which are then available to a Consultant. Is it not true the NHS even pay a pension to Doctors who are struck off.?? What other organisations do that. Had I been fired from my job, within what was a Nationalised organisation, I would have lost all my pension entitlements.
Ron.
Ron.
Squad.....I do not have a vendetta against the Medical Profession and certainly nothing personal against you.
As regards my remark about pensions being paid by the NHS to 'Struck-offs I am prepared to accept what you say on the basis that things may have altered over the past years. I can only support my statement by saying that I was assured that my brother-in-law was getting one. Furthermore he was considering going to live overseas and then,having established himself within a community as being a retired UK Doctor, sticking his FRCS certificate on a wall and Bingo Back In Business for more money; as if he were poor, having been Doctor to a Prison, Premier Football Club, Immigration and Emigration Services, Major Insurance Company,.along with other minor retentions. All at the same time he was practicing as an NHS GP and Consultant.
I did intimate at a very earlier posting that I was not wishing to enter into arguments on the subject matter. However, I feel it would have been rude if I had just ignored your comments. Consequently, unless you wish to pursue matters further I suggest issues are for the moment concluded at this stage.
I feel that I have stayed with the OP's question and raised thought that some private clinics/hospitals are suspect and their Consultants are there for the money.
Ron
As regards my remark about pensions being paid by the NHS to 'Struck-offs I am prepared to accept what you say on the basis that things may have altered over the past years. I can only support my statement by saying that I was assured that my brother-in-law was getting one. Furthermore he was considering going to live overseas and then,having established himself within a community as being a retired UK Doctor, sticking his FRCS certificate on a wall and Bingo Back In Business for more money; as if he were poor, having been Doctor to a Prison, Premier Football Club, Immigration and Emigration Services, Major Insurance Company,.along with other minor retentions. All at the same time he was practicing as an NHS GP and Consultant.
I did intimate at a very earlier posting that I was not wishing to enter into arguments on the subject matter. However, I feel it would have been rude if I had just ignored your comments. Consequently, unless you wish to pursue matters further I suggest issues are for the moment concluded at this stage.
I feel that I have stayed with the OP's question and raised thought that some private clinics/hospitals are suspect and their Consultants are there for the money.
Ron
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