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  Posted by Emerald (U2224522) on Wednesday, 19th October 2005

  Just returned from GP for 3 vaccine boosters for holday and was charged 60 quid! Pactices have the choice whether to charge or not and ours do! I will now be on the look out for a Mimms of BNF to find what these really cost, you had to make the cheque out to Dr GP himself. I thought I would have to pay something but consider this a bit steep

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  Posted by Celtic Tiger (U2229153) on Wednesday, 19th October 2005

  You might be cheaper going to a private medical service rather than your GP. For instance, I have just gone to one of these services for my annual flu jab - cost £15. My GP would charge £25. (I am too young to get it free on the NHS).

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  Posted by Spartacus (U2221272) on Wednesday, 19th October 2005

  Ours does this too. I particularly dislike the idea of making the cheque out to the individual Doctor rather than the practice and always refuse, just to be awkward! They seem perfectly able to cash them., I've noticed!

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  Posted by Emerald (U2224522) on Wednesday, 19th October 2005

  Came asa bit of a shock as our last paratice did not charge, maybe I willtry aprivate medical service how do find one?

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  Posted by Emerald (U2224522) on Wednesday, 19th October 2005

  OH has to go on Friday for the same so that will £120 for vaccines plus £35 for the anti malarials, thats a lotof dosh

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  Posted by Nelson Gabriel (U1476362) on Wednesday, 19th October 2005

  OH has to go on Friday for the same so that will £120 for vaccines plus £35 for the anti malarials, thats a lotof dosh 
  
  Actually pretty good value, I had to get a single booster in USA last year, $150.
  
  I suppose our NHS, wonderful though it is, cannot do everything for everybody all the time. We choose to travel to places requiring injections and if we do not wish to pay for the safety we can choose not to go. Those who have an illness have usually no choice so it seems reasonable that that is where the resources are concentrated

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  Posted by alanis (U2256129) on Wednesday, 19th October 2005

  It's only cos you're not used to paying for health care, Emerald. It does seem weird at first, paying a doctor, but why not? I just paid 65 Euros to the vet, and no-one's surprised at vets getting paid.
  
  We pay doctors here (France), then get refunded, so we know the costs of vaccines etc, and really, £20 for an unusual vaccine is fair enough. Lots of the more expensive antibiotics cost more than that. I think it's fair enough if it's to go on holidays, after all, the plane fare will be more than that, won't it?

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  Posted by Emerald (U2224522) on Wednesday, 19th October 2005

  I don't have a problem paying I used to live in the States so am used to it. What I object to charging so much when I have a good idea what the vaccs cost,add in the nurses time and equipment and it does not come near that cost which means large profit, it definatly consider private medical service next time as I would think they would be more competative

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  Posted by Lady Trudie Tilney Glorfindel Maldini (U2222312) on Wednesday, 19th October 2005

  Emerald
  
  Which vaccines did you have? I have BNF right here and can look them up.
  
  Just for starters: Hepatitis A vaccine is £23.81
  
  Hep A combined with typhoid is £34.49
  
  Generally, I agree with Nelson Gabriel that travel vaccines shouldn't come out of general NHS funds. There's always Cleethorpes.

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  Posted by Emerald (U2224522) on Wednesday, 19th October 2005

  Hep A £25
  Polio £10
  Thyphoid £25 not offered combined, glad I did not need Rabies as that looked top of the pile

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  Posted by Lady Trudie Tilney Glorfindel Maldini (U2222312) on Wednesday, 19th October 2005

  Well a 'profit' of £1.19 on the Hep A doesn't seem too bad. The BNF says Typhoid on its own is £10.68. It doesn't give a price for polio, presumably 'cos the drops are generally held in stock by GPs anyway for babies.

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  Posted by Emerald (U2224522) on Wednesday, 19th October 2005

  I agree re the hep A, But some seems to made on the Thyphoid, the polio was a jaba as well nurse says it is no longer in drops

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  Posted by Bex (U2258486) on Wednesday, 19th October 2005

  You can't completely go by teh BNF prices, as they are really just a guide, but my edition of the BNF (current edition) says Hep A £23, polio £10, and typhoid £10. When you add in the costs involved, I think the charges sound reasonable.
  
  What is wrong with paying the cheque to teh doctor? The practice is their business, after all. Not really sure what teh problem is.

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  Posted by alanis (U2256129) on Wednesday, 19th October 2005

  The drop form was stopped as it can cause paralysis apparently (one case per thousand, I think, but I suppose if you're the one it happens too, it's too many)
  
  Going by what we pay, the prices are reasonable, and why shouldn't a doctor be paid for his time for non-essential treatment? That's what 'making a profit' is, after all.

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  Posted by Henk (U756863) on Wednesday, 19th October 2005

  Just returned from GP for 3 vaccine boosters for holday and was charged 60 quid! Pactices have the choice whether to charge or not and ours do! I will now be on the look out for a Mimms of BNF to find what these really cost, you had to make the cheque out to Dr GP himself. I thought I would have to pay something but consider this a bit steep 
  
  Sixty quid for three vaccinations doesn't seem that steep to me. How much is your health worth?
  
  Certainly better preventing whatever disorders are on the go than getting back and paying twenty times the price for having giant, war-eyed monster shrimp removed from your various parts.
  
  

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  Posted by Eilis (U1474217) on Thursday, 20th October 2005

  Just returned from GP for 3 vaccine boosters for holday and was charged 60 quid! Pactices have the choice whether to charge or not and ours do! I will now be on the look out for a Mimms of BNF to find what these really cost, you had to make the cheque out to Dr GP himself. I thought I would have to pay something but consider this a bit steep 
  
  Hello, Emerald
  
  I was going to show your post to my O/H but thought better of it because I wasn't sure how he would react! No, holiday vaccination [indeed any holiday medication] is not covered by the NHS and yes, it does cost that sort of money.
  
  And yes, rabies immunisation is very expensive. When my daughter and her friends were going on a World Challenge trip to Peru he negotiated a discount price with a friendly chemist and gave the group the injections. It still worked out relatively expensive but that's the real cost.
  
  GPs are not on a salary but have are independent contractors who work for the NHS. Anything outside that is private work and there are suggested fees laid down by the BMA as to what they can charge for those services: holiday jabs, employment and insurance medicals, legal reports etc.
  
  Eilis

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  Posted by Eilis (U1474217) on Thursday, 20th October 2005

  Ours does this too. I particularly dislike the idea of making the cheque out to the individual Doctor rather than the practice and always refuse, just to be awkward! They seem perfectly able to cash them., I've noticed! 
  
  Well, Ratspiffle, all private work is with the individual doctor. Any legal or insurance work my O/H does is billed by him [I do the letters because it isn't NHS work] and the cheques are written to him.
  
  The cheque you've written to the practice account will be lodged and the practice will write the GP a cheque in recompense.
  
  Eilis

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