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Hospital Costs

  • 16-05-2009 6:53am
    #1
    MagicMarker
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 32,865 ✭✭✭✭


    Hey all, hopefully this is the right forum to ask.

    My brother is currently limping like crazy and I think it's possible he's broken a bone in his foot/ankle. He has no money/insurance and no medical card so I was just wondering what a trip to a hospital would cost for such an injury?

    Thanks


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  • #2
    Traumadoc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,523 ✭✭✭Traumadoc


    100 Euro AFAIK.
    Go to your GP first and you can save the hospital charge, but will have to pay your GP.


  • #3
    MagicMarker
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 32,865 ✭✭✭✭MagicMarker


    Really, a hospital visit is free if referred by a GP? That's weird!


  • #4
    DrIndy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,461 ✭✭✭DrIndy


    its to cut down on people bypassing their GP and clogging up the emergency departments.

    If he has a GP letter, attendance in the A&E is free - but he needs to pay the GP fee.

    By the sounds of things, if he turns up early in the morning - he can be seen by an Advanced Nurse Practitioner which involves a (normally) much shorter wait than to see a doctor. (be there about 9am)


  • #5
    maglite
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    Do advanced Nurse practitioners have the same scope as an English Emergency Nurse Practitioner or are they different?


  • #6
    drzhivago
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 926 ✭✭✭drzhivago


    maglite wrote: »
    Do advanced Nurse practitioners have the same scope as an English Emergency Nurse Practitioner or are they different?

    Similar as far as I know though less are able to prescribe here unless they have done a special nurse prescribing course


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  • #7
    drzhivago
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 926 ✭✭✭drzhivago


    DrIndy wrote: »
    its to cut down on people bypassing their GP and clogging up the emergency departments.

    If he has a GP letter, attendance in the A&E is free - but he needs to pay the GP fee.

    By the sounds of things, if he turns up early in the morning - he can be seen by an Advanced Nurse Practitioner which involves a (normally) much shorter wait than to see a doctor. (be there about 9am)

    There arent ANPs in every department and many work during the Monday-friday period


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