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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ownedbybear, post: 4593339, member: 29&quot;]The NHS is basically free, mostly, at the point of delivery As davey says, once you retire you don&#039;t pay NI. Nor do you pay it on a low income, unemployed, disabled, whatever. </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve only very ocasionally used private, when I got it as a work perk. I did have one private check a couple of years back when I had a cancer scare and wanted the answer NOW please. The lovely consultant reassured me, then popped me straight back to an NHS follow up appointment. He also only charged me for one of the two visits, too. Same chap as if I&#039;d waited a week for the NHS. </p><p><br /></p><p>When himself had bowel cancer, picked up by FREE routine screening, we asked if his treatment would be any faster or whatever if private. The surgeon, who does private as well, basically said don&#039;t waste your money, same treatment, same speed. He was dead right.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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