Eye Opener

[SIRandyraven]

Went to visit doctor today and he took a blood sample for a test from me.
Popped it into test machine in his surgery lab and gave me result on the spot.
Whole process inc taking blood sample took less than 10 minutes !
White cell count normal ...no infection ...job done.

oh ...This is Switzerland.

Now back in UK ...
Visit doctor
Sends me to hospital with a blood test order form
Blood taken and sent to lab
5 days later
Call doctors (after 2pm) for result.

Maybe our surgery is the only one that worked like that in England ?

[emmie]

if only. perhaps its because we have a lot more people than Switzerland.
a whole lot more

[emmie]

7.997 million (2012) Switzerland, UK, (2012) over 65 million, perhaps give or take a few

[Old_Geezer]

Had some cyclopentolate drops the other day. That was an eye opener.

[Sqad]

Switzerland ...almost all Private Healthcare.
UK....almost all State Funded.

I think that says it all.

[Mamyalynne]

My Surgery (UK)

Visit GP, he asks for bloods, go to Phlebotomy room (same building) they ring me with results in 48 hours - am happy with that.

[ummmm]

I don't know how my GP surgery works....I've never been.

[ummmm]

I thought my doctor was named Dr Ker. It only dawned on me last week (checking their website because of one of Emmie's Q) that it was just the initials of the street and name of the surgery :-D

[SIRandyraven]

It is a semi private / public purse funded system.
I have the least excess and pay for a number of supplement extras and cost per month is £215 and you pay the first £200 and then 10% of costs post this up to approx £475.
Accident insurance and medical bills for such paid via your employer , if you work more than 8 hours a week.
Even the unemployed pay medical insurance and everyone who stays in CH for than 90 days must pay.
Well it works well.
I pay less tax than in UK (1/3rd of what I used to pay), pay less for medical insurance (In uk it's tax and NI) and get excellent treatment.
Maybe the same model would work in the UK ?

[Peter Pedant]

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I love the bit where you say - in the UK the result comes back in five days...

Oncology at Hope Hospital - rolled up and found the appt cancelled only no one had told me. Squeezed in - lucky there was a whole cancelled clinic squeezed in as people milled around saying I have taken the day off work and driven in from Timbuctoo....

Well being haem - one always had to have a blood test so go up to Path and ask for blood to be drawn.

oo - no you are not on the list.

Yes boys and gurlz they were refusing to take blood as it was a patient safety issue. safety issue I squealed ????

45 mins later - sister said oh christ take his blood [ and shut him up ]
I did threaten that I would put it on the internet and they basically said go on...

and of course it is much much longer than five days....


Switzerland - it is called point of care (POC) testing - these machines are quite expensive and obviously are not used every second of the day. The there thing is that quality control is difficult to guarantee

[jno]

it's taking 2 weeks to get the result of an X-ray that baffles me. I was told it had probably been sent to Australia - seriously - for analysis.

In those 2 weeks my pneumonia got a lot worse.

[Stephen_G]

My Mum has had Blood taken (At phlebotomy clinic in Local Hospital) and had the results the same day. Usually get the results from Doctor's surgery the next day.

I think I'd have been on the phone to the Surgery long before five days had elapsed though.

[hc4361]

Results within 48 hours, usually next day, for me, too

[corylus]

Vets do these tests within minutes while you are on the premises.

[SIRandyraven]

A visit to the vets then. I will get myself insured via Petplan when I return in 2017.

[237SJ]

So what would you get if you didn`t have any money?