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Ambulance charges

  • 09-10-2012 8:31pm
    #1
    kub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,562 ✭✭✭


    Lads,
    The crowd in Cork City have been wondering a while about whether or not they get charged for calling an Ambulance.

    Perhaps ye might go to http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056705717

    And set them straight.

    Thanks,

    Kub


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  • #2
    timmywex
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,626 ✭✭✭timmywex


    There are no charges for Ambulances at all! The A+E charge will be levied by the hospital as standard


  • #3
    kub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,562 ✭✭✭kub


    Hi Timmywex,
    Thanks for that, guys if any of can back this up, please do, ye know what Corkonians are like :D


  • #4
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,690 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    timmywex wrote: »
    There are no charges for Ambulances at all! The A+E charge will be levied by the hospital as standard

    NO charge for emergency ambulances is what you should have said :)


  • #5
    paraletic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 228 ✭✭paraletic


    http://touch.boards.ie/thread/2056775313?page=11
    The same problem here.
    It seems as if somebody is wrong on the Internet. (oh and they seem highly strung).


  • #6
    stretch00
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 50 ✭✭stretch00


    Hey Paraletic, PM me with some details to verify where you work and I'll answer your question re ambulance charges with evidence. Rather not get into it on a public forum for exactly the reasons you have stated.


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  • #7
    MagicSean
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,897 ✭✭✭MagicSean


    Unforunately they don't charge for callouts. It's one of the most abused services in the country.


  • #8
    paraletic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 228 ✭✭paraletic


    stretch00 wrote: »
    Hey Paraletic, PM me with some details to verify where you work and I'll answer your question re ambulance charges with evidence. Rather not get into it on a public forum for exactly the reasons you have stated.

    I work in the HSE ambulance.
    You don't need to verify it. (Although I could be a 19 year old female swedish exchange student... ...but I'm not.)

    I think the confusion about charges comes from some hospitals putting an 'ambulance' charge on some bills. Which has nothing to do with the ambulance service. (or an rta charge)
    Combined with some sort of belief that the person who rings 999 pays for the fire brigade etc.
    The wording on the citizens info website is a bit confusing too. And says that you may be charged, although I assume this refers to interhospital transfers and not emergencies.
    Whatever is causing the confusion, some people think that emergency ambulancs charge for the service. Which I don't think they do.


  • #9
    999nobody
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73 ✭✭999nobody


    Blokes in pubs / friend of a friend and the internet are always completely accurate. Fact.. :D

    I know this to be true because someone I know heard someone tell someone else at a party once.:D


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