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I believe this is only going to apply if the U.K. adopt the same conditions for Spanish residents in the U.K.
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11-10-2019, 06:28 AM
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Totally agree with beachlife. Sound advice. We wouldn't travel anywhere without full medical insurance.
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I agree also. We always took out travel insurance and it came in very useful a few years ago in Spain. On the Friday evening before we were due to fly back on Sunday, my wife came down with gastroenteritis (diagnosed later). She started to get better but I came down with the same thing on Sunday and we were unable to fly home.
We both went to the local hospital with our EHIC cards on Sunday evening. That was a nightmare in itself and not to be repeated if at all possible. Long story but I got seen but my wife didn't.
Because of this we called a doctor out for my wife on Monday and had to pay.
As we had insurance they arranged our flights back home and a car to take us from Stansted to Luton (we had flown from Luton but no flights available).
The insurance covered all this and the doctors visit, had we just relied on the EHIC card we would have been well out of pocket.
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Can you see a GP under the EHIC scheme, or do you have to pay privately?
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What happens if you have a non-emergency issue that wouldn't require a trip to A&E (flu, chest/ear infection etc.) and are staying too long to wait to go home, but not long enough to be resident? Pay to see a doc privately, I suppose?
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The best way is probably to visit the hospital and explain the situation to the person at the reception. It's a treatment that's necessary and it could be covered by EHIC or your travel insurance. Perhaps I'm just too optimistic and you'll have to pay for it but that's the route I would take before going private.
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