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Jim Procter · 17-09-2015, 10:45

i ask this question because of an incident yesterday concerning my wife who is 81She had gone to her dentist for a regular checkup.She has a palette and a few of her own teeth left and the dentist gave her a cursory check over which lasted a couple of minutes.He then said that she needed a mouth wash and he would issue a prescription.Although because of her age the cost to my wife is nil, there must be considerable cost to the NHS.I don't know what a dentist charges for a consultation but it won't come cheap and then there was the added cost of writing the prescription. She then took the prescription to the chemist who would also make a charge to the NHS and the chemist finally walked to his display of remedies and took mouth wash from the shelf costing £1-29.I can't help feeling something is sadly wrong here.Any comments?

17-09-2015, 10:45	#1
Jim Procter Full Member Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Hull East Riding Posts: 240 Liked: 67 times Rep Power: 3035	Where is our NHS money going? i ask this question because of an incident yesterday concerning my wife who is 81She had gone to her dentist for a regular checkup.She has a palette and a few of her own teeth left and the dentist gave her a cursory check over which lasted a couple of minutes.He then said that she needed a mouth wash and he would issue a prescription.Although because of her age the cost to my wife is nil, there must be considerable cost to the NHS.I don't know what a dentist charges for a consultation but it won't come cheap and then there was the added cost of writing the prescription. She then took the prescription to the chemist who would also make a charge to the NHS and the chemist finally walked to his display of remedies and took mouth wash from the shelf costing £1-29.I can't help feeling something is sadly wrong here.Any comments?