well needed rest

You sure...

well i not left the island for 10 years and i only go down out of the house about once a week so aint got a clue about what way to get a holiday

Dont panic Minty, if they are 40 quid on Friday now they wont be much more for the following days. Be sure you put returns into the search though, sometimes they are mega cheap going out and sillly coming back. I use the Thomson site usually but thats very much last minute for the cheapies. 

EHIC card in Canary Islands

Adam Mint wrote:You sure...

Yeah, I typed in  "UK departure last minute holidays" and a load of complicated looking sites came up, so I gave up!

if you got to any doctor ,then you will be charged for  all your treatment ,as you cant see a NHS doctor as a tourist . if you WALK into any NHS building you will be charged full price for service
you have to ARRIVE IN AN AMBULANCE and then give the receptionist at the hospital your EHIC
EVEN IF THEY ARE GOING TO BILL YOU THEY WONT ASK FOR ´CASH UP FRONT ´ they bill you day you leave ... 
The Spanish health authority determines what treatment is considered necessary and cannot wait until your return to the UK

The Lone Ranger wrote:EHIC card in Canary Islands  

Yip, this it's the important line in that article:-

"The EHIC also covers you for treatment of pre-existing medical conditions"


Having a bit of an argument with one insurance company at the moment who advertise holiday insurance that covers pre existing conditions, but when you tell them what your condition is they say they can't provide cover due to it... THE ONLY FECKIN REASON IM PHONING YOU IS BECAUSE  YOUR ADVERT SAYS YOU DO...

the health service in spain is devolved ,so its up to the CANARIES HEALTH SERVICE ,what they do or do not cover . dont forget you are get treatment THE SAME AS A LOCAL ,not the same as the UK ,quoting a british website at 3am to a spanish only receptionist will get you nowhere . most people in the south who are taken to the only private hospitals are transferred to the main STATE hospitals in santa cruz the next day 
i would have access to 20,000 euro line of credit to cover my medicals abroad .

20,000 euros won't go far, they wanted 9000 off Annie after she'd only been in hospital a few days, feck knows what the bill was after 17...

why  did you not use your EHIC rather then pay 9k ??

Mermaid used her EHIC in the Clinica opposite Los Cris bus stance. They dressed her calf where it had came up all blistery, weeping and red. Gave her a prescription for Farmacia and never cost a penny...

How would you remember that

I have my clear moments every now and again...

Paul Novak wrote:why  did you not use your EHIC rather then pay 9k ??

Hospital had her insurance details but insurance company were dragging there feet due to paperwork, so hospital was getting edgy about her insurance not accepting liability, hospital also had her EHIC details but were threatening  to move her to NHS hospital or what ever you call it out there if we didn't hand over 9000 euros, we didn't hand over money, but jumped up and down on insurance companies head to get paperwork sorted out...

I remember that, shower of kents

Adam Mint wrote:

Paul Novak wrote:why  did you not use your EHIC rather then pay 9k ??

Hospital had her insurance details but insurance company were dragging there feet due to paperwork, so hospital was getting edgy about her insurance not accepting liability, hospital also had her EHIC details but were threatening  to move her to NHS hospital or what ever you call it out there if we didn't hand over 9000 euros, we didn't hand over money, but jumped up and down on insurance companies head to get paperwork sorted out...

if you went in an AMBULANCE to ANY HOSPITAL then they would have taken the EHIC and it would not have cost you anything . BUT YOU WILL HAVE BEEN TRANSFERRED TO A STATE ONE IN SANTA CRUZ coz there aint any in the south ...YOU CANT SWITCH FROM UNLIMITED EHIC  COVER from PRIVATE COVER after you find insurance company dont want to pay any more - there is no legal reason any private hospistal has to accept any private insurance from another country - its totally up to them .

Annie got a taxi to the hospital, it was about seven in the morning and she didn't want to upset her friends she was on holiday with, as it happens hospital was more or less across the road from their hotel but she didn't know that...

Plans a bit on hold, Annie's been dropping in daily to see her dad, she gets there today, he's just sitting staring in to space again, ambulance called and he's back in hospital again...

Ney

Alzheimers?? sounds eerily familiar? My dad was more or less doing the same thing, no interest in what was going on around hi. Was better yesterday though still couldn't understand why he couldn't drive the car. ( Potato up the exhaust didn't work either! )

must have a hole in the exhaust then, if it cant breath it wont run, it will start and die straight away

It didn't. I brought 3 spuds with me and every one of them shot out like a feckin cannonball . He's got a Toyota Corrolla and the last 6 or 7 inches of the tailpipe points downwards. I couldn't get the spud up past the bend in the pipe. I'll swap the leads around next weekend.