to expect more from the NHS???

[IWipeArses]

Asked at the doctors front desk for some condoms on Monday, receptionist said the nurse would leave some for me to collect on Tuesday. Great, perfectly acceptable, had one left.
Picked them up. There's 12. 12? How often do they expect me to go back?!

[SheelaNeGoldGig]

Just ration your shagging.

[missymoomoomee]

Every 12 days by the sounds of it

[GoldPedanticPanda]

12? Gosh I usually get given a big bag full whenever I've asked for any. I must look really randy

[AKissIsNotAContract]

You can buy them cheaply here:
www.freedoms-shop.nhs.uk/shop/product/search/?c=1&sort=&pp=60&pn=1

[alphabite]

Well they are financing your shagging so I wouldn't moan about going back in a couple of weeks. Oh wait that is us financing your sex life isn't it. Marvelous.

[Floralnomad]

Why should the NHS provide them at all , in these days of austerity I would imagine that that is one of the things they are cutting back on . Buy your own!

[WelshMaenad]

Home bargains, Mates, £1.99 for 12. Crack on.

[UnChartered]

i'd check the dates on them

at one shag for christmas, both parties birthdays, maybe an anniversary and a holiday extra they might be dodgy

[SaraSidle]

I'm sat in hospital right now with my son,he fell off his bike yesterday into the path of a car

Head injury and broken bones

Thank god we have a NHS is what I say!!!

[Fairyloo]

The NHS is for healthcare and is already overspent not to fiancé your shagging

Buy your own

[UnChartered]

Sara

how awful hope your lad recovers speedily and well

this is what the NHS is for

[onemoreminute]

Buy your bloody own !

[IHopeYouStepOnALegoPiece]

Hope your DS is ok SaraSidle

[Moominsarescary]

I thought they only supplied free condoms to teenagers now

[MrSunshine]

Buy your own, cheapskate.

[GoldShip]

Erm... If you like... I can get you lots...

[SecretCermonials]

Yabu and cheap!

[Moominsarescary]

alphbite how is getting free condoms any different from the pill, coil etc? Do you think you are funding everyone who's on the pills sex life. What about your own?

[maillotjaune]

They fund other forms of contraception so why not. Otoh condoms are not prescribed and are available cheaply.

[GoldShip]

Giving out condoms is cheaper than pregnant women, abortions and treating STI's!

[AmberLeaf]

Not just for teenagers Moomins.

12 is the average they tend to give out but if you get a nice FP nurse they will give you more.

[RuleBritannia]

I wear hearing aids and am entitled to free batteries from my GP or the Audiology Department at the hospital that gave me the hearing aids.

Sometimes I'm given two packs of six batteries and sometimes I'm given ten packs. Perhaps the number you are given depends on the person giving out condoms.

I second SaraSidle's comment about the NHS. Each hearing aid costs £1500. If I lose one, it will be replaced free of charge but I'm allowed to lose only one. After that I would have to pay for a replacement. There's nothing wrong there because it makes me more careful with them.

[Hopeforever]

A box of condoms is less expensive to the NHS than an unwanted pregnancy or a STD.

It still seems strange to me that they are free on the NHS but when I think about it, free condoms do make sense

[perceptionreality]

'Why should the NHS provide them at all'

Sorry but some of you really do talk nonsense.

The NHS provide free contraception generally, not just condoms and a free service to enable us to have babies.

It's much cheaper for the NHS to pay for contraception than it is to pay for the abortions that would result of unwanted pregnancies.

Or do you think women should pay for their own abortions too?