To want the UK to provide health plans like pet plans

[2018mumof2]

Hi I probably sound completely crackers however I have been thinking more and more since my partner got a job which includes private health care that doesn’t necessarily help with people’s health and that there must be better services to keep people’s health in check.. even if we have to pay for it.

I cannot speak for everyone as obviously every person has their own circumstances but me for instance I pay £20 per dog for a health plan which includes a 6 month review and a 12 month review, annual vaccinations etc.

I left the vets thinking today if properly managed and with the right pricing behind it why can’t there be a service like that for people? Why does it need to be something is wrong before we go to a GP, why can’t we just have a MOT type health check where your health is checked, it might warn people who fall unknowingly into obesity etc.

I would happily pay more than £20 for that kind of service for me and my family if it was available.. what do people think? I know it sound strange being compared to pets but AIBU or not?

One thing worth remembering is that, despite the name, what we have is a National Sickness Service, and that public health budgets were both slashed and buried in reorganisation in the 2010s

I find it interesting that people immediately jump to a computer said no mentality. No suggestions what people should do when they can't get past a GP receptionist 🙄

Which this does. Desperate times and all that.

I've reread my message unrealised I made a shit point! I am actually close to obese so am almost certainly projecting at frustration at myself. I think what I was trying to say is it normally pretty obvious to one if you've put on weight and can usually be tracked to lifestyle. Unless there are other symptoms going on. My overweightness is in the main because I eat too much and exercise not enough both are exacerbated because I have an chronically ill ( bipolar and polymyalgia). I don't need a check up to be told I'm fat though. It's all there to see.

I agree @gamerchick I'd be doing the same in your situation. It's nigh on impossible to get a booked in advance appointment from my GP unless you're a child or already in their system for something.
Hopefully the nurse can tell you if something is of concern and can sort out an appointment for you. I had a slightly different route in in a similar situation and managed to get a booked in advance appointment.

Thankyou. Just don't know what else to do. If anyone IRL who know what I was going through said it was 'inappropriate'. I wouldn't be held responsible for my gob.

Luckily the nurses at my GP surgery are super awesome and knowledgeable. Just hard to get an appointment with them as well, unless you're invited in.

Can't even get a sodden phone appointment. It's infuriating. Emergencies only.

I have a family health plan with HSF. we pay about £65 per month and can claim for all sorts of things.

The great thing about HSF is that they are not for profit so any profit made gets given to health charities as grants.

My DD got £150 each time she broke an elbow.

I'm getting new glasses soon and cost covered.

DH visits chiropodist regularly- that's covered too.

Had back problems, used the cash back to pay for a private MRI which provided the data for an NHS referral. I'll need to wait as long as it takes but the NHS would only X-ray. They found OA and thought that was the problem but I actually have 3 herniated discs, one pressing on a nerve. GP apologised for not sending me for MRI!

We get back more than we pay in.