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Is this right ?

  • 04-04-2015 9:32pm
    #1
    Simon2015
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 702 ✭✭✭


    I got a letter a few days ago from Beaumont public hospital for a test I have to get done.

    It said on the letter that there is a 75euro charge for the test.

    Funny thing is I got the same test done in the Mater hospital last year for free.

    How can this be right ?

    So much for a "free" public health care system in Ireland.


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  • #2
    _Tombstone_
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,006 ✭✭✭_Tombstone_


    Some stuff that was free is now not free....actually lots of stuff when I think about it.


  • #3
    lonestargirl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,501 ✭✭✭lonestargirl


    Do they want you to stay overnight? €75 is the bed charge in a public hospital


  • #4
    Dozen Wicked Words
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    Simon2015 wrote: »
    I got a letter a few days ago from Beaumont public hospital for a test I have to get done.

    It said on the letter that there is a 75euro charge for the test.

    Funny thing is I got the same test done in the Mater hospital last year for free.

    How can this be right ?

    So much for a "free" public health care system in Ireland.

    When did any one ever say it was free?


  • #5
    Vorsprung
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,816 ✭✭✭Vorsprung


    Day case procedures cost 75 quid, don't have to be admitted overnight to be charged.


  • #6
    Simon2015
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    Vorsprung wrote: »
    Day case procedures cost 75 quid, don't have to be admitted overnight to be charged.

    But I don't understand how I was able to get the same test in the Mater for free ?

    Something doesnt add up.


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  • #7
    Vorsprung
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,816 ✭✭✭Vorsprung


    Simon2015 wrote: »
    But I don't understand how I was able to get the same test in the Mater for free ?

    Something doesnt add up.

    No idea, you haven't told us what the test is! You're best ringing Beaumont on Tueaday to query it.


  • #8
    Simon2015
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 702 ✭✭✭Simon2015


    Vorsprung wrote: »
    No idea, you haven't told us what the test is! You're best ringing Beaumont on Tueaday to query it.


    Its a glucose tolerance test.


  • #9
    Vorsprung
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,816 ✭✭✭Vorsprung


    Simon2015 wrote: »
    Its a glucose tolerance test.

    Jaysus!!! I would definitely be querying that!!


  • #10
    his_dudeness
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 229 ✭✭his_dudeness


    Could all depend on how and where the GTT was performed.

    If it was performed in the normal course of an outpatients department appointment, where you are taking up only a chair in the waiting area until the end of the test, then there would be no extra cost. But if i the protocol is that you are formally admitted and given a bed for the duration of the test, then a cost would be incurred. Different departments/consultants/protocols likely exist in the hospitals, which could explain the differing costs applied.


  • #11
    Vorsprung
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,816 ✭✭✭Vorsprung


    his_dudeness wrote: »
    Could all depend on how and where the GTT was performed.

    If it was performed in the normal course of an outpatients department appointment, where you are taking up only a chair in the waiting area until the end of the test, then there would be no extra cost. But if i the protocol is that you are formally admitted and given a bed for the duration of the test, then a cost would be incurred. Different departments/consultants/protocols likely exist in the hospitals, which could explain the differing costs applied.

    Is there somewhere that gives people a bed for a GTT?! If true, we have a new winner for the biggest waste of money in the health service.


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  • #12
    _Tombstone_
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    Vorsprung wrote: »
    Is there somewhere that gives people a bed for a GTT?! If true, we have a new winner for the biggest waste of money in the health service.

    A courier to deliver one nappy to a disabled child living 100metres from the clinic will never ever be beaten.


  • #13
    Breezer
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    _Tombstone_ wrote: »
    A courier to deliver one nappy to a disabled child living 100metres from the clinic will never ever be beaten.
    An ambulance being called to transport a patient from the psychiatric unit to the emergency department of the same hospital building, because technically they're different hospitals. Ambulance arrives, paramedic gets out, walks down the corridor with patient, drops patient in ED, gets back in ambulance and drives off.


  • #14
    Simon2015
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 702 ✭✭✭Simon2015


    Breezer wrote: »
    An ambulance being called to transport a patient from the psychiatric unit to the emergency department of the same hospital building, because technically they're different hospitals. Ambulance arrives, paramedic gets out, walks down the corridor with patient, drops patient in ED, gets back in ambulance and drives off.

    My father was moved from the mater public to the mater private by ambulance.

    He was well able to walk but because he had a stroke for insurance reasons they moved him by ambulance. They also moved him around the hospital in a wheel chair for insurance reasons.


  • #15
    lilblackdress
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 195 ✭✭lilblackdress


    Simon2015 wrote: »
    My father was moved from the mater public to the mater private by ambulance.

    He was well able to walk but because he had a stroke for insurance reasons they moved him by ambulance. They also moved him around the hospital in a wheel chair for insurance reasons.

    The Mater Public hospital is a different hospital to the Private so there will always be transport arranged be it a taxi or an ambulance.... what happened if they decided your dad could walk but he fell on the way? No one would be happy. That is also the case whilst an inpatient in a hospital. If a patient was made walk a decent length and became unwell due to same there would be uproar from not only hospital staff but also families of the patient.


  • #16
    sudzs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,753 ✭✭✭sudzs


    This doesn't beat the nappy story but my mother was sitting waiting for an ambulance to bring her from the Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda to a Dublin hospital and got chatting to a man who was also waiting for an ambulance to take him from Drogheda to the same Dublin hospital. Two ambulances arrived at the same time and took them both separately to the same hospital! :rolleyes:


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