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General Discussions / Re: free view tv
« Last Post by kevinb on December 13, 2023, 14:50. »
Sorry my post was garbled, meant to say a 1.4m dish. I think Xmas is getting to me.
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General Discussions / Re: free view tv
« Last Post by kevinb on December 13, 2023, 14:48. »
It will be Freesat  you get from your dish, not Freeview.  Normally if you have a proper Freesat box it will automatically update the EPG channell list if channels are swapped around or deleted. If you have a cheap Satellite box it doesn't dyna.i update, you find you are presented with about 500 channels,  most of them drivel. It's worth doing a rescan, I do a first time on my non Freesat receiver from time to time,  .my other Humax Freesat  bot sorts itself out. I've got a 1.4.metre box and get the HD versions of the SD channels that have gone off air so everything should be good.
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General Discussions / Re: free view tv
« Last Post by Spurs on December 13, 2023, 12:59. »
It came up on mine the other day that the bbc were shutting down all non hd channels via satellite and that you will need a HD satellite box to get anything
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General Discussions / free view tv
« Last Post by ian-steele on December 13, 2023, 12:54. »
we can only get I.T.V granada  from our dish, any solutions or contacts please for our next visit ?
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General Discussions / Re: Spanish NHS v UK NHS
« Last Post by kevinb on December 02, 2023, 20:48. »
Waiting lists are getting longer , our moronic government  allowed 700,000 Immigrants into the UK in the last year some of them to work in the NHS,  it seems not to have occurred to the government  that it means that there are potentially  700,000 more NHS patients to treat.
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General Discussions / Re: Spanish NHS v UK NHS
« Last Post by denandrose on December 02, 2023, 10:37. »
Yes, but mine was 6 years ago, I should imagine now it would cost much more after cost of living increases in Spain, also effects of COVID. I arranged my costs through Salvuum Health who bartered the price a little for me.
We’re now back in England and have noticed a massive difference in NHS services, waiting times etc, not for the better unfortunately.😢😢
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General Discussions / Re: Spanish NHS v UK NHS
« Last Post by Tony Gillam on December 02, 2023, 07:58. »
Quite a disparity between private in UK and private in Spain for the same operation. Charge what the market will bear?
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General Discussions / Re: Spanish NHS v UK NHS
« Last Post by denandrose on December 01, 2023, 20:18. »
It’s good your wife is well now, .
I also had cataract surgery privately in Spain in Alicante at Medimar hospital, again done very quickly.
In contrast, 2 years ago I had emergency abdominal surgery in England, it was in the aftermath of COVID, but because of the months of delays, what was going to be straightforward, ended up being an emergency, after which it was touch and go for survival! It took 6 months to recover from that,! Even worse, my Consultant took 20 months to see me post operation,! Thank God I have a brilliant GP who wrote letters of complaint.
I must admit, in all my years I’ve never had such bad service from the NHS. I suspect I was unlucky with the Consultant allotted to me, as I’ve seen others during COVID with no problems, just a bit of a delay.
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General Discussions / Re: Spanish NHS v UK NHS
« Last Post by kevinb on December 01, 2023, 17:09. »
Thanks denandrose, Seems state health care comes with a wait, give the pain my wife was in given she was on morphine we couldn't risk another attack. Her care in our UK NHS hospital was excellent but it fell apart with the expected  years wait. We were lucky the surgeon who did the op at our local Nuffield Hospital had access to the CT scan or it would have been another thousand on the bill. We've never experienced private health care before and it was superb. The surgeon asked my wife for permission to use the video recording  of her op for training purposes as he was using a new cutting edge instrument so fame at last. Anyway Al fine and dusted.
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General Discussions / Re: Spanish NHS v UK NHS
« Last Post by denandrose on December 01, 2023, 00:11. »
6 years ago, I had my gallbladder removed as a paying patient at the I-med hospital near Elche. I chose this option as I needed it doing before a planned holiday. The whole process was done very quickly. Once I agreed the cost of €5000 it took 2 weeks to happen. The fee included everything, from Consultants fees, to operation and a private room that was like a 4 star hotel. I went home the day after my operation and  my recovery went very well. The post operative appointments were also included. I hope this helps.
The Spanish NHS would have taken several months just for the initial scans as it was not classed as urgent at the time.
An emergency would have been quicker.
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