Ensayo Sobre Sanidad

In England there are doctors too


What do I do if I am ill away from home? And, if I need a hospital? They will pay me a treatment? How does English health service work? There’s a privatesystem too? Why are they so advanced with their investigations?…

If you fall ill while away from home, or if you are not registered with a doctor, but you need to see one, you can still contactyour nearest surgery to ask for treatment. So, don’t worry, in England there are doctors too…

• If you are going to stay in England more than three months, you need the E-111, you will obtainthis paper in the social security’s office of your town. This document provides you to have a particular treatment from your General Practitioner (your doctor) in your new home. But if you need hospitalservices, you have a problem, because they are not included, and you must pay for them. It’s true that is not much money but is money anywhere.


The good new is that the European Union isgoing to approve in Jun a sanitary target for all her citizens. With this type of “carnet”, we could travel along Europe with only one target, our own target.


• Here in Spain, social securityhas civil servants or “civil doctors” ,that are part of the social security of the country; to obtain this post you must pass a public examination (opposition) and then you will work for the stateall your life.
But in the United Kingdom, you can be a doctor of the state without any exam, there are doctors from other countries and continents, (particular doctors) that work for the state,because studies in England are so expensive and the state prefer to take on foreign doctors than educate their own students and pay them exaggerated salaries. There are no civil servants, doctors areparticular graduates that work for the social security system of England.
A fantastic advantage in their social security is that dentist and physiotherapist’s services are free, maybe the...