@Graham *****

So any proof that you've got to say exiting before on on day sixty.

@Peter ******

They wouldn't ignore it, but they wouldn't start giving you treatment until the NHS had diagnosed it.

Middle of November to around end of March best time to visit Thailand

Only the Americans would write dates as monthly/day/year. Instead of normal countries who write day/month/year, but then the Americans have to be different than the rest of the world.

@Peter ******

If you get diagnosed in another country, the NHS won't offer you treatment based on diagnosis from a foreign country.So your back at square one if you come back to the UK.

@Clive ********

So if your fit and healthy, registered with a GP and don't use it for three years or more, then your struck out of the system? Find that hard to believe and if it's true there must be a valid reason. Oh! just had a thought, maybe it's because of those that move overseas and do not tell the NHS that they have moved.

@Graham *****

Don't understand, if you have a METV., that gives you that you can get a thirty day extension on your first entry into the country, so if you've got to buy a sixty day return ticket to get an METV., that means, if you utilise the visa to its maximum then the return part of your airticket is useless unless you return to your own country after the first 60 days of your visa.

Also, these illegal economics that come across the Channel if and when they are sent to Rwanda, each one of these scroungers will be given a lump sum of £3,000 and have their accomodation in Rwanda paid for, for five years FFS. Not much good about being British retirees.

@Brian *******

I reckon most of them that come scurrying back to the UK for health reasons, are those living in places, especially Spain. There's a program on TV in the UK called Bargain loving Brits in the sun. There all mostly older retirees and they all are obese and have health issues be them mild or not so mild issues. I suspect many of these Brits are living in Spain, have given a relatives address in the UK as their place of abode and use the NHS in emergencies. The fiddling that goes on with Brits abroad on the social system in the UK is horrendous. Retirees living in countries where their UK state pension isn't up rated annually, so they use relatives addresses in the UK and tell the DWP that is where they are living, so they get their pension increased annually, which their not legally entitled too. Having said that it is discrimination of the worst kind, when you can retire to some countries, Philippines, USA and many other countries that have nothing to do with the UK previously, but the UK government has a social security agreement with these countries, so your state pension gets increased annually. Absolute discrimination of the worst kind. But if you climb out of a dinghy at Dover you get 5* or 4* hotels, full board, spending money and a mobile to replace the ones they throw into the English channel along with any other forms of identification, so the authorities in the UK cannot boot them out because under the useless UN charters unless you have proof of where they are Nationals of, you can't boot them out. I worked and paid into the UK system for forty two years and it wasn't until I retired that I realised how badly British retirees are treated by the UK governments.

I don't know about any NHS areas in the UK apart from the area I live in. Although appointments do take awhile, I've found it not too bad. Having said that I do not have any underlying health problems that need regular GP hospital appointments. I had an issue with Atrial fibrillation back in June 2013 They wanted to prescribe tablets for the rest of my life. I wasn't happy about that as I'm a very fit guy for my age, so I requested to see a different cardiologist than the three or four I'd seen before. I saw a different cardiologist in February 2014, who recommended me to a heart centre with a view to having a cardio ablation, which I had in August 2014, which was successful. Binned the tablets and have been in regular heart rhythm since. The NHS isn't perfect at this moment, but it's surprising how many millions use it because of conditions that bad lifestyle choices have had a bearing on their health. There are some poor folk who have health issues that have no bearing on lifestyle, but there are hundreds if not millions whose health issues are a direct consequence of lifestyle choices. ie., smoking, unhealthy eating habits, junk food, alcohol consumption, too much of it and lack of physical exercise. People should take responsibility for their health and not just rely on the NHS all the time to fix things that were preventable in the first place.