TSR Med Students' Society Part III

Sure, but patients have been paying for treatments anyway since prescription charges have been introduced. Also, the downsides of charging for treatments is that people may be put off accessing healthcare unnecessarily.

Most people don't need to pay for prescriptions though. A significant number of those with chronic illness are exempt (but not me! ) and the rest will pay by subscription - I pay £108 a year if I take £3700 worth of tablets or not.

Most people don't need to pay for prescriptions though. A significant number of those with chronic illness are exempt (but not me! ) and the rest will pay by subscription - I pay £108 a year if I take £3700 worth of tablets or not.

Sure, but these aren't the kind of people who qualify for free prescriptions or subscribe aren't the ones you want to be discouraging superflous attendences.

It seems strange that in the SJT most of the points are for getting the middle answers in the right order. Surely if you know what is the best thing to do in the situation, in real life you would just do that? You wouldn't need to know what your second best option would be. Or are you meant to know that in case you can't carry out option one for some reason? I'm not a fan of the idea, or a particularly big fan of the white space questions. I agree that completely random allocation would probably be better. I quite like the idea of a national medical knowledge exam. I would probably do rubbish in it but I would like to know how I compare to people outside my university. But no-where seems keen for that, which is understandable because it would be quite hard to make an exam that isn't biased towards certain medical schools.

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I have a strange feeling that I met you today

Sure, but patients have been paying for treatments anyway since prescription charges have been introduced. Also, the downsides of charging for treatments is that people may be put off accessing healthcare unnecessarily.

I saw somebody standing in town with a bucket raising money for the scleroderma charity. Must be quite difficult to raise money for it, when I'd guess the majority of people have never heard of it before.

Quite proud I knew what it was though

Essentially the AMK (Applied Medical Knowledge Progress Test, for the rest of you) but with 250 questions half being basic science related, the rest standard AMK questions.

But surely that would then favour anyone from Peninsula, bearing in mind they've been taking a similar test for the previous 5 years?

reveal yourself! You could be one of 4 or 5 people i saw today
and surely we've met before? probably without me knowing it though lol

edit: seriously its gonna drive me ****ing nuts now D:

I don't think we have met properly before!

I could reveal who I was... Or I could leave you to wonder

I may have lent you chalk at the gym

Too may weddings, too much whiskey.....

Sorry, Land value tax. Similar to council tax but rather than a tax on property is only on the bas land rental value. Impossible to avoid unlike many taxes (people refuse to pay you can take the land!) and doesn't have the problems of things like VAT which are regressive and income tax which is a tax on productivity. It also discourages people sitting on un utilised land.

I think it is inevitable we limit the system. We can't do everything without ramping up tax. I would not be surprised to see 2 tier healthcare opening up in the UK. It has been resisted but at some point the current model will be unsustainable.