called National Health Service (NHS). Most medical services are provided
for free , but some need to pay. Care provided by NHS, free to all persons in the following cases:emergency treatment (but not follow-up treatment );
treatment of certain transmissible diseases;
compulsory psychiatric treatment .
In order to receive free NHS- treatment , you must have a valid visa issued for a period exceeding six months. In this case, the alien family members are also eligible for NHS- treatment with the right to be treated in hospital and NHS- registration in the medical clinic in the community . If the visa was issued for a period of 6 months or less, then the alien has no right to be treated in NHS- hospital , except in an emergency .
Ambulance workers and hospital , as a rule, do not ask a passport or ill health insurance card . If the staff does not understand the medical facilities of the native language of the sick foreigner , it will be part of an interpreter who will regularly visit him in the hospital , and after treatment will be given to a foreigner all necessary medicines for free on the necessary treatment ( up to 3 months). Treatment in private hospitals are paid.
Pharmacies. Most pharmacies in the UK is open until 8:00 pm . In virtually every area of any English city can find a pharmacy that is open until midnight. As for the so -called day-night "on duty" pharmacies - they come across in the UK is much less than in Russia . Received a prescription in the clinic , the Englishman pays the pharmacist , but not the cost of medicines are often very expensive , and a fixed fee for prescription requirement - about 6 pounds.
