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PostPosted: Tue Jun 08, 2021 12:26 pm 
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badge expires july 31st

council sent ne the reminder

what date is it?

£258/3 years inc £55 medical

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PostPosted: Tue Jun 08, 2021 1:52 pm 
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wannabeeahack wrote:
badge expires july 31st

council sent ne the reminder

what date is it?

£258/3 years inc £55 medical
A badge here will cost you a lot more than that. Our medical is £80.00 and we now have to have an eye test at an optician that costs another £25/30.00 plus the DBS updates and the badge cost of around £280.

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PostPosted: Tue Jun 08, 2021 7:30 pm 
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wannabeeahack wrote:
badge expires july 31st

council sent ne the reminder

what date is it?

£258/3 years inc £55 medical

Had to pay £300 just after Xmas for my badge.

Think my medical was over £100.

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PostPosted: Wed Jun 09, 2021 1:40 pm 
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medical here £185.00 plus separately an eye test and £267.35 for the badge

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PostPosted: Wed Jun 09, 2021 6:11 pm 
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medical here £185.00 plus separately an eye test

What kind of medical doesn't include an eye test? :-k

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PostPosted: Wed Jun 09, 2021 6:46 pm 
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medical here £185.00 plus separately an eye test

What kind of medical doesn't include an eye test? :-k



our local surgery is now part of Lakeside healthcare who run hundreds of GP surgeries for profit you have to produce an eye test result before you can even book a medical if you can book one !

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PostPosted: Wed Jun 09, 2021 6:57 pm 
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Is anyone getting offered a 1 year badge option?

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PostPosted: Wed Jun 09, 2021 7:05 pm 
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wannabeeahack wrote:
Is anyone getting offered a 1 year badge option?

Nope.

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PostPosted: Wed Jun 09, 2021 10:04 pm 
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Sussex wrote:
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Is anyone getting offered a 1 year badge option?

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The applicant has to request a 1 year badge.


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PostPosted: Wed Jun 09, 2021 10:52 pm 
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medical here £185.00 plus separately an eye test

What kind of medical doesn't include an eye test? :-k
During the pandemic our doctors were only doing online medicals. You had to have an eye test at an optician and provide the results to the doctor. You had to take your own blood pressure and weigh yourself an measure your height yourself and send that information to the doctor as well. This is still the way it is done because our doctors are still not doing face to face appointments.

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PostPosted: Thu Jun 10, 2021 5:19 am 
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ours are now doing face to face BUT they have merged all 3 surgeries into one (to save money) reduced the number of GP's by a third (to save money) and replaced them with nurse's so they don't have time to do medicals although they used to do them during their lunch breaks

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PostPosted: Thu Jun 10, 2021 10:18 am 
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heathcote wrote:
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wannabeeahack wrote:
Is anyone getting offered a 1 year badge option?

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The applicant has to request a 1 year badge.


They refused when asked before

said it wasnt an option

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PostPosted: Thu Jun 10, 2021 10:18 am 
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What kind of medical doesn't include an eye test? :-k


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PostPosted: Thu Jun 10, 2021 7:29 pm 
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This is still the way it is done because our doctors are still not doing face to face appointments.

I had my taxi/PH medical in November 2020 and my GP did the lot face to face.

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