18 Jun 2013 10:22 PM:

Hi there,   I am not sure on to which thread I should put my question so here it goes:

I have bought a mobility scooter for my father who is in Spain and I am trying to send it to him. All the transport companies I have contacted are reluctant as it has a battery, although I told them it is a dry cell battery and the company has told me they are safe to go in any aircraft.

They are all very expensive and some will only offer insurance for "lost parcel" but no for "damaged parcel". I wander if you have experience of sending things to and from Spain and what you recommend.

Any advice will be very welcomed. Thanks

BW

Thread: Expat Solutions

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05 Nov 2012 9:54 AM:

Privatisation of the NHS will mean that clinical care will be a number crunching operation and profits will be put before medical care, as the service still will be free at the point of use so share holders of the company will have to get their money from having restricted drugs formularies and procedures. I know a GP which worked for a while for an out of hours run by a private company and she was performance managed according to how many patients she saw in one hour rather than according to the quality of the care provided.

Still I thinks the NHS needs to change as to continue as it is, is unaffordable. However, as a difference with a private company, savings made in an area can be used to improve care in another.

I also think if patients were to make a small contribution, they would value the service much more.

Thread: Spain plans to privatise more healthcare- is this the way forward?

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04 Nov 2012 11:46 AM:

The subject is complex. We want free care for every one,  new technology and drugs are extremely expensive, we live longer and we have created a "medicalised" society where every one expects to get a pill for every ill or dyscomfort.

In UK, 90% of patient do not pay for prescriptions, this means they will make appointments for GPs to get their free paracetamol (which costs 90p over the counter) while non-minding to pay for his daily packet of cigarettes.

People live isolated lives and find difficult to contain their anxiety as there is not an extended family to talk to. Young parents will ask for urgent appointments the moment a child has a mild fever or a cough, sometimes more than once a week.

There is a lack of taking responsability for ones own health. You tell a patient that has diabetes and they answer "and what are you going to do about it".

The goverment insisted on access to a clinitian within 48h independent of it being clinically indicated and created NHS direct and walk-in centres. Now we have patients attending GPs as urgent appointments when the day before called NHS direct for the same problem, then went to a walk-in clinic and then called the surgery out of hours service during the night. How many opinions does one person needs for the same problem? Or is it that they just keep at it untill they get their antibiotics which will not help as they just have a viral infection?

All this demand for "instant" access to services has destroyed the continuity of care which politicians think is not important but which I think is essential or patient management.

I work in primary care and we audited patient's attendances to GP (we did not include out of hours or walk-in/a&e attendances) and many patients came up as having well over 90 appointments in the previous 12 months!

All these completely clogg up the system.

I am completely against privatisation of the NHS however it needs a radical change and lots of patient education.

 

Thread: Spain plans to privatise more healthcare- is this the way forward?

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03 Nov 2012 9:46 AM:

Hi,

               I wonder if Elaine speaks any other language?   Esperanto would never thrive as a language is something "alive", that changes and progresses and develops as time goes by and no-one would feel identify with something that is "dead".

I do not disagree with you that we should have a common language and all schools in th EU should be bilingual so you learn your own language plus the "common" language as it happens in Scandinavia with English.

The problem is that if you do not use a language regularly, you do lose the language.

I am Spanish, living in UK and married to a Greek. My children learnt the 3 languages, however their main language is English, they can manage in Spanish as the have been in Spain frequently and travelled through S. America but almost lost their Greek as they hardly use it.

 

 

Thread: Spain plans to privatise more healthcare- is this the way forward?

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17 May 2009 11:47 PM:

Hi Costalot,  ADH no good for bussiness. We had a bad experience with them however managed to get our deposit back. You may know this but just in case, now they have changed their name to property-revolution (www.property-revolution.com). Alos we had lawyers of spain throught them. The firm splited up and  (you say Rocio Perez but could it be Raquel Perez?) one of the partners, Raquel Perez, has her own firm (ingo@perezlegalgroup.com    +34952833169. I know they have tried to "poach" clients from each other as they tried with us so perhaps you may contact them and as they are the oposition now, might help you!

Good luck, it is a very bumpy road. They are crafty salesmen pushing you to split your deposit into a number of properties    with the offer of a very easy and quick profit even if they know it is not so. Thanks god we did not fall for it.

 

Thread: With Ref to ADH

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