Umm, no. I worked on the last iteration of the BBC website, specifically on advertising for the news site. If you browse the website from outside you are redirected to bbc.com which is the same site with commercial advertising for international users.
List of pro's and con's for private health insurance in the UK:
Note: all of this depends on the type of policy you buy.
Pros
Specialist referrals. You can ask your GP to refer you to an expert or specialist working privately to get a second opinion or specialist treatment.
Get the scans you want. If the NHS delays a scan, or won’t let you have one, you can use your cover to pay for it.
Reduce the waiting time. You can use your insurance to reduce the time you spend waiting for NHS treatment, if your wait time is more than six weeks.
Choose your surgeon and hospital. You can (in theory) choose a surgeon and hospital to suit your time and place – which isn’t possible on the NHS.
Get a private room. You can use it to get a private room, rather than staying in an open ward which might be mixed-sex.
Specialist drugs and treatments may be available. Some specialist drugs and treatments aren’t available on the NHS because they’re too expensive or not approved by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence in England and Wales (NICE) or the Scottish Medicines Consortium (SMC).
Physiotherapy. You get quicker access to physiotherapy sessions if you have insurance than you would through NHS treatment.
Cons
You might get better care on the NHS. If you have a serious illness such as cancer, heart disease or stroke, you’ll get priority NHS treatment. NHS hospitals can be as good as or better than private hospitals.
It’s expensive – and the price will go up. A typical family premium (two adults in their 40s and two children under 10) can vary from £700 to £1,650 per year. Premiums will rise every year, and with age – so by the time you’re older, and more likely to need hospital treatment, you may not be able to afford it.
Chronic illnesses aren’t usually covered. Most policies don’t cover chronic illnesses which are incurable, such as diabetes and some cancers.
There may not be any local treatment options. If you choose a policy with an approved list of consultants and hospitals this may not include the expert consultant you want to see or a convenient location for treatment.
It's mostly about screening and being seen quicker, for anything serious you'll almost always get the best treatment on the NHS.
Those charts are more realistic in terms of salaries, the top end of which are more than double your initial quote.
Doctor's don't 'go private', they do private work as well as working for the NHS.
In the UK if you see a private doctor you still need a referral from your NHS GP, everything has an involvement with the NHS somewhere along the way.
Some private doctors may be better and more specialised in their fields but they'll be working from the NHS too mostly on consultant referrals.
One of the biggest and primary benefits of private medical insurance in the UK is the screening. For example, we have some very advanced technology and cancer treatment in the UK, but we have a trailing survival rate see here, because the amount of time and money to constantly screen everyone hasn't traditionally been prioritised or funded accordingly, leading to deaths from advanced stages of cancers that would otherwise have been easily curable.
This is changing slowly, the government just announced pumping an extra £400m into guaranteeing diagnosis within 4 weeks but that, IMO, will do little to help if you still can't get a GP appointment quick enough (there are sometimes waits of 2 - 3 weeks just to see a GP unless it's an absolute emergency.
The NHS is stretched to its limits, people come here on 'health holidays' for free treatment but that's also changing, you'll be required to provide your proof of residency / nationality very very soon.
Yes but here in the UK we have the Atlantic, the gulf stream, the jet stream, warm air pushed up from the continent and cold air being pushed down from the north sea all meeting conveniently right at the UK, I'm surprised we can predict an hour ahead in the UK let alone 24 hours in advance.
With all these dynamics converging in one place it makes sense that we're building a 16 petaflops supercomputer to replace the current one the UK met office uses.
The new system will be housed partly at the Met Office headquarters in Exeter and partly at a new facility in the Exeter Science Park, and will reach its full capacity in 2017.
At that point, its processing power will be 16 petaflops - meaning it can perform 16 quadrillion calculations every second.
The "Cray XC40" machine will have 480,000 central processing units or CPUs, which is 12 times as many as the current Met Office supercomputer, made by IBM. At 140 tonnes, it will also be three times heavier.
That kind of makes my eyes bleed / head hurt to think about.
Most Doctors in the UK do private referral work on the side too, once they've specialised / chosen their field coming out of medical school + their internship / mandatory A&E training.
Source: My father who just retired as an NHS GP and private Dermatologist.
My friend was on the bus approaching the one that blew up on Tavistock square, and if I hadn't slept in that morning I would have been on that piccadilly line train.
A more interesting list would be the prevented / thwarted potential attacks; of which there have been many more than most with a lot more potential for significant loss of life.
Conservatives (blue) aka ("Tories") see website (our current party for the last 5 year term and current term who were reelected in May) - are right wing, the Labour party (red) aka ("Idiots") [you can look for the labour party website yourself] are left wing socialists, although in recent years people like Tony Blair for example from the Labour party, were actually more centre right, resulting in an arguably ok PM that made some equally substantial fuck ups.
Our conservative party cuts welfare and taxes for business and drives an economy built on business that rewards the people that create jobs and grow the economy, Labour just hires more people to work for the government and public sector and increases welfare spending for those that manipulate a system Labour are too fair with.
Unlike the US, our welfare system isn't funded by paying back what you borrow, it's funded by every tax payer constantly; so it's great news that a lot of the sponging c**ts have fucked off to support another political party and left the conservative goverment that aids the further development of our economy and rewards all the hard workers instead of the lazy c**ts that sit on their arse all day expecting everything to be handed to them on a silver platter.
We're planning on ditching the European Human Rights bill now with our gov and adopting a 'British bill of human rights', among other things; which is shaping up to be more like the constitution you guys have to protect number 1, your nation, the UK becomes more like the US every day, fortunately though I feel we have it slightly better in areas where we have regulatory / administrative bodies that protect us from monopolisation and other corporate fiasco's that damage the interests of the nation. We have those because well, we've been around quite a while longer than you guys.
I love the concept of the American dream but, it really is just that. America's great if you have lots of money, but any country is TBH. In the UK we're referred to as 'middle England', because everyone has access to healthcare, welfare etc, in some ways Obama has tried to make the US more like the UK in that respects while we in the UK try to adopt a more firm approach to civil liberties like the US has.
This is why the UK and the US have a 'special' relationship.
On the subject of this thread btw, I like Cameron, but to claim to be able to intercept and decrypt traffic across the board the way stated is nothing short of a naive and dumb statement. We're a nation of incredible engineering minds that go back to the industrial revolution, the code breaking world war era and lots of funky shit we do now and I'm proud of that, but really? What a crock of shit, there's always going to be a way to secure communications traffic, if there wasn't, our intelligence services and governments across the world wouldn't be able to use computers or networks now would they?
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Ha, the EU will be all over this. Microsoft were supposedly turning themselves around, not opening themselves up for more fines from EU courts.
What the blithering fuck are you on about?
From outside the UK*.
Fuck sake slashdot in all these years of butchering the site you can't add an edit feature?
Umm, no. I worked on the last iteration of the BBC website, specifically on advertising for the news site. If you browse the website from outside you are redirected to bbc.com which is the same site with commercial advertising for international users.
Do I need a GP referral for a private consultant?
Thinking about it it's down to the fact private GPs won't have your medical history / records.
Interesting, I had to get some tests done and I was required to get a referral from my GP.
IBM have caused me so many headaches over the years.
Quite possibly the funniest suggestion evAr.
Most taxi's in England are private hire / minicabs, London is the exception with Black Cabs that are more like yellow cabs in the states.
Last I checked, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership covered the Atlantic, not the Pacfic.
List of pro's and con's for private health insurance in the UK:
Note: all of this depends on the type of policy you buy.
Pros
Specialist referrals. You can ask your GP to refer you to an expert or specialist working privately to get a second opinion or specialist treatment.
Get the scans you want. If the NHS delays a scan, or won’t let you have one, you can use your cover to pay for it.
Reduce the waiting time. You can use your insurance to reduce the time you spend waiting for NHS treatment, if your wait time is more than six weeks.
Choose your surgeon and hospital. You can (in theory) choose a surgeon and hospital to suit your time and place – which isn’t possible on the NHS.
Get a private room. You can use it to get a private room, rather than staying in an open ward which might be mixed-sex.
Specialist drugs and treatments may be available. Some specialist drugs and treatments aren’t available on the NHS because they’re too expensive or not approved by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence in England and Wales (NICE) or the Scottish Medicines Consortium (SMC).
Physiotherapy. You get quicker access to physiotherapy sessions if you have insurance than you would through NHS treatment.
Cons
You might get better care on the NHS. If you have a serious illness such as cancer, heart disease or stroke, you’ll get priority NHS treatment. NHS hospitals can be as good as or better than private hospitals.
It’s expensive – and the price will go up. A typical family premium (two adults in their 40s and two children under 10) can vary from £700 to £1,650 per year. Premiums will rise every year, and with age – so by the time you’re older, and more likely to need hospital treatment, you may not be able to afford it.
Chronic illnesses aren’t usually covered. Most policies don’t cover chronic illnesses which are incurable, such as diabetes and some cancers.
There may not be any local treatment options. If you choose a policy with an approved list of consultants and hospitals this may not include the expert consultant you want to see or a convenient location for treatment.
It's mostly about screening and being seen quicker, for anything serious you'll almost always get the best treatment on the NHS.
Those charts are more realistic in terms of salaries, the top end of which are more than double your initial quote.
Doctor's don't 'go private', they do private work as well as working for the NHS.
In the UK if you see a private doctor you still need a referral from your NHS GP, everything has an involvement with the NHS somewhere along the way.
Some private doctors may be better and more specialised in their fields but they'll be working from the NHS too mostly on consultant referrals.
One of the biggest and primary benefits of private medical insurance in the UK is the screening. For example, we have some very advanced technology and cancer treatment in the UK, but we have a trailing survival rate see here, because the amount of time and money to constantly screen everyone hasn't traditionally been prioritised or funded accordingly, leading to deaths from advanced stages of cancers that would otherwise have been easily curable.
This is changing slowly, the government just announced pumping an extra £400m into guaranteeing diagnosis within 4 weeks but that, IMO, will do little to help if you still can't get a GP appointment quick enough (there are sometimes waits of 2 - 3 weeks just to see a GP unless it's an absolute emergency.
The NHS is stretched to its limits, people come here on 'health holidays' for free treatment but that's also changing, you'll be required to provide your proof of residency / nationality very very soon.
With all these dynamics converging in one place it makes sense that we're building a 16 petaflops supercomputer to replace the current one the UK met office uses.
The new system will be housed partly at the Met Office headquarters in Exeter and partly at a new facility in the Exeter Science Park, and will reach its full capacity in 2017.
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At that point, its processing power will be 16 petaflops - meaning it can perform 16 quadrillion calculations every second
The "Cray XC40" machine will have 480,000 central processing units or CPUs, which is 12 times as many as the current Met Office supercomputer, made by IBM. At 140 tonnes, it will also be three times heavier.
That kind of makes my eyes bleed / head hurt to think about.
Most Doctors in the UK do private referral work on the side too, once they've specialised / chosen their field coming out of medical school + their internship / mandatory A&E training.
Source: My father who just retired as an NHS GP and private Dermatologist.
That's fucking priceless.
Stalin was a communist, you can't get more left wing than that.
Tories are right wing, everyone other party are 50 shades of left.
Apart from UKIP, they're neither left nor right, they're just c**ts.
Quite a few - List of terrorist incidents in Great Britain.
My friend was on the bus approaching the one that blew up on Tavistock square, and if I hadn't slept in that morning I would have been on that piccadilly line train.
A more interesting list would be the prevented / thwarted potential attacks; of which there have been many more than most with a lot more potential for significant loss of life.
Was that after they lost their country?
Conservatives (blue) aka ("Tories") see website (our current party for the last 5 year term and current term who were reelected in May) - are right wing, the Labour party (red) aka ("Idiots") [you can look for the labour party website yourself] are left wing socialists, although in recent years people like Tony Blair for example from the Labour party, were actually more centre right, resulting in an arguably ok PM that made some equally substantial fuck ups.
Our conservative party cuts welfare and taxes for business and drives an economy built on business that rewards the people that create jobs and grow the economy, Labour just hires more people to work for the government and public sector and increases welfare spending for those that manipulate a system Labour are too fair with.
Unlike the US, our welfare system isn't funded by paying back what you borrow, it's funded by every tax payer constantly; so it's great news that a lot of the sponging c**ts have fucked off to support another political party and left the conservative goverment that aids the further development of our economy and rewards all the hard workers instead of the lazy c**ts that sit on their arse all day expecting everything to be handed to them on a silver platter.
We're planning on ditching the European Human Rights bill now with our gov and adopting a 'British bill of human rights', among other things; which is shaping up to be more like the constitution you guys have to protect number 1, your nation, the UK becomes more like the US every day, fortunately though I feel we have it slightly better in areas where we have regulatory / administrative bodies that protect us from monopolisation and other corporate fiasco's that damage the interests of the nation. We have those because well, we've been around quite a while longer than you guys.
I love the concept of the American dream but, it really is just that. America's great if you have lots of money, but any country is TBH. In the UK we're referred to as 'middle England', because everyone has access to healthcare, welfare etc, in some ways Obama has tried to make the US more like the UK in that respects while we in the UK try to adopt a more firm approach to civil liberties like the US has.
This is why the UK and the US have a 'special' relationship.
On the subject of this thread btw, I like Cameron, but to claim to be able to intercept and decrypt traffic across the board the way stated is nothing short of a naive and dumb statement. We're a nation of incredible engineering minds that go back to the industrial revolution, the code breaking world war era and lots of funky shit we do now and I'm proud of that, but really? What a crock of shit, there's always going to be a way to secure communications traffic, if there wasn't, our intelligence services and governments across the world wouldn't be able to use computers or networks now would they?
Rubbish.
Which is just as well considering Scotland wanted their separation from the rest of the UK.
Good luck to them when all their funding is cut from London / Westminster, let's see how you can afford free Universities et al after that.
The SNP taking the 'left wing' Labour parties votes in Scotland was the best thing that ever happened to this country in recent years.
There are lots of great reasons to put your company in the UK. This statement is unenforcable.
What the blithering fuck are you actually on about?
You need to lay off, whatever the hell it is you're smoking.
Make sure you don't have any contacts in your Outlook address book.