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INR testing. normal to have to pay for nurse and the prescription?

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  • 11-12-2018 11:37am
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    fattymuatty
    Registered Users Posts: 295 ✭✭


    My husband has to get his INR tested every month, up until now he has been paying 25e for the nurse visit and picks up the script for warfarin the next day. Today he was told that he should have been paying 20e for the script too so a total of 45e.

    Is this standard? A GP visit is only a fiver more and will only require one trip to the clinic every month rather than 2. But if it isn't standard then he will change GPs and save a few hundred every year.


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    Mrs OBumble
    Registered Users Posts: 25,674 ✭✭✭✭Mrs OBumble


    fattymuatty wrote: »
    My husband has to get his INR tested every month, up until now he has been paying 25e for the nurse visit and picks up the script for warfarin the next day. Today he was told that he should have been paying 20e for the script too so a total of 45e.

    Is this standard? A GP visit is only a fiver more and will only require one trip to the clinic every month rather than 2. But if it isn't standard then he will change GPs and save a few hundred every year.

    Mine charges 15 a script.

    Certainly shop around. But remenber that a nurse cannot sign the script so theres likely to be more than a nurses visit charge


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    foodaholic
    Registered Users Posts: 1,513 ✭✭✭foodaholic


    Is there no warfarin clinic at the local hospital?
    It's usually free


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    locum-motion
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    Mrs OBumble wrote: »
    ... But remenber that a nurse cannot sign the script so theres likely to be more than a nurses visit charge

    Some nurses can sign some scripts!


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    echo beach
    Registered Users Posts: 1,252 ✭✭✭echo beach


    locum-motion wrote: »
    Some nurses can sign some scripts!

    True but most of them work in hospitals. There are only a handful working in primary care and whoever signs the script still has to get paid.


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    fattymuatty
    Registered Users Posts: 295 ✭✭fattymuatty


    foodaholic wrote: »
    Is there no warfarin clinic at the local hospital?
    It's usually free

    We live in the sticks, we don't have a local hospital and driving to one just wouldn't be possible around work.

    Thanks for all the replies, he rang around and can get it done cheaper elsewhere so will be going there in future.


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    foodaholic
    Registered Users Posts: 1,513 ✭✭✭foodaholic


    fattymuatty wrote: »
    We live in the sticks, we don't have a local hospital and driving to one just wouldn't be possible around work.

    Thanks for all the replies, he rang around and can get it done cheaper elsewhere so will be going there in future.

    There is a home monitor - just a finger prick off blood needed
    Speak with the hospital your linked with to see if they can facilitate that


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