empdonamiento

How can a pensioner sign this to obtain medical cover when they are staying with friends, so no escritura, no rental contract  or utility bill to show.

Hi Gwm

Well they can't sign on the padron in the circumstances you discribe

Have a good look around ukinspain you may find a solution

http://ukinspain.fco.gov.uk/en/help-for-british-nationals/living-in-spain/pensions-benefits/

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This message was last edited by foxbat on 01/09/2011.

Here is the script of one of the links provided by foxbat......

The NHS is a residence-based healthcare system. Therefore, once you have moved permanently away from the UK you are no longer entitled to medical treatment under normal NHS rules.

You must notify your former GP so that you and your family can be removed from the NHS register.

You will also no longer be entitled to use your UK-issued European Health Insurance Card (EHIC) to access healthcare abroad.

Giving advice to the contrary is fraught with danger and could be an expensive mistake when the authorities establish facts in cases like the one outlined by foxbat......

If you are a visitor an EHIC card works perfectly, one of my neighbours who visits twice a year and spent 4 weeks of one visit in hospital is testament to that, If you have moved here you should either have private health care OR be registered with the Spanish system AND deregistered from the UK system.

Why would you not do that and have peace of mind and health care security?

Fighter 2...

Not that its any of your business , but my wife normally spends as much time in the UK as she does out here and is, according to Newcastle, fully entitled to NHS care whilst over there and to use her EHIC when she is in Spain.

How we choose to live our lives is none of your concern.

I, for one, am getting extremely tired of the aggressive nature of replies on this forum.

quote from OP

when they are staying with friends,

...suggests to me that they are on holiday. Prolonged  holiday or not an EHIC card is the answer in their case.

Thats it, I'm outta here permanently.

fb

Yes, the EHIC card is fine, but it's only for emergency treatment, ongoing treatment may not be covered. They are living here almost full time but do not intend to buy or rent, as they are in the position that they are using an empty family's apartment. Maybe the way to go is do a rental contract, even though they do not need to pay rent.

From:-  
                   http://ukinspain.fco.gov.uk/en/help-for-british-nationals/living-in-spain/padron
 

• Padrón - a list of all the people who live in a certain town
• Empadronarse - the act of registering yourself on this list with your local town hall.  

Foxbat

My post was anything but agressive, it merely sought to give sound advice to the innocent couple that sought sound advice, yours certainly did not do that... I used a link from your own post to highlite that fact, I guess your decision to remove of that advice speaks volumes although not too sure how that was achieved as the time limit to complete an edit had passed.

It is certainly not my desire for contributors to leave these forums but they are for us to debate and discuss many and various subjects including providing counter options for innocent people looking for advice.

I neither have any desire to intefere nor have any knowledge of the way you conduct your lives other than you feel free to lay berore us in these forums.... but if that's the way you feel goodbye.

Something very odd happening on this thread, now the original message that started the thread has been removed.

To the administrator: Better to remove the whole thread than tinker in such an odd and unusual way.