Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Elderly patients are being asked to pay two-thirds of their state pension upfront for transport to hospital appointments in Glasgow.
Residents of Kintyre are asked for £80 if they need to go to a Glasgow appointment and £60 to travel to Lorn and Islands Hospital in Oban, although the state pension is only £113.75.
The charges are being applied when a patient has been assessed, via a telephone booking system, as not qualifying for NHS transport.
With no suitably timed public transport system available to get people to the hospitals and back the same day, patients with no other means of travel are told to use Red Cross transport.
http://www.scotsman.com/news/health/elderly-patients-told-to-pay-for-lifts-to-hospital-1-3577625
Residents of Kintyre are asked for £80 if they need to go to a Glasgow appointment and £60 to travel to Lorn and Islands Hospital in Oban, although the state pension is only £113.75.
The charges are being applied when a patient has been assessed, via a telephone booking system, as not qualifying for NHS transport.
With no suitably timed public transport system available to get people to the hospitals and back the same day, patients with no other means of travel are told to use Red Cross transport.
http://www.scotsman.com/news/health/elderly-patients-told-to-pay-for-lifts-to-hospital-1-3577625