UK liveaboard - address for doctor or dentist?

No proof of address required for GPs, so any address someone doesn't mind you using (friend?) in the area you can use to register. Maybe not "official" but told to me by my last practice when I asked them how I was supposed to receive primary care when they de-registered me after I became NFA.

Where you are you may also have another option: Tower Hamlets was part of the pilot scheme to allow people to register for a doctor near where they work rather than near where they live, so if the scheme is being extended you might be able to just use your existing post drop. See here.
 
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laika said:
No proof of address required for GPs, so any address someone doesn't mind you using (friend?) in the area you can use to register. Maybe not "official" but told to me by my last practice when I asked them how I was supposed to receive primary care when they de-registered me after I became NFA.

Where you are you may also have another option: Tower Hamlets was part of the pilot scheme to allow people to register for a doctor near where they work rather than near where they live, so if the scheme is being extended you might be able to just use your existing post drop. See here.
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They key thing is the address must be one that will communicate with you as it will be the only point of contact between the health service and you.
 
Conachair said:
How does everyone else manage? I haven't been on the books of a doctor or a dentist for years.
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Nor me. Can't vote either, but that doesn't matter because I have a boat. If it gets bad enough, I can sod off somewhere else. That's my kind of instant affect democracy. ;)

For bank, etc, I use one of the parent's addresses, though they keep moving which is annoying.
 
A friend's address for 'official' requirements. Tax the motorbike, Pension, Doctors etc: But for commercial dealings the marina/berth/harbour where ever I happen to be, otherwise friend gets all the spam, brochures etc: :)
 
Ta all. Doctor sounds easy enough. Not that I've ever need one , but sounds like some people recommend a check up once or twice a lifetime. All the other bits are easy enough, must have been much harder living addressless before everything went on the web. Just leaves a dentist costing less than a small car. :)
 
ArthurJStoatfondler said:
That used to happen me. Very upsetting to get home from school and find they'd gone.
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Hah. Once upon a time, when I first lived in London, they moved house, and for about 4 or 5 months I genuinely had no idea where my parents lived.

I've only just found out where my dad lives. He lived in a place for about a year, somewhere in east Lancs, but I never new where, though now he's back in Chorley, an area I know well, I can pinpoint him.

As you can tell, I'm really close to my family. :p

Really not sure what I'd do for an address without them though. That would leave me in a pickle.
 
We had a UK holding address but we were still were dropped by our doctor. From memory the NHS rules are if you are away for three years the doctor is required to drop you.

Also, I understand that if you are dropped by the doctor then an NHS hospital won't treat you unless you have returned permanently. I think some do fly back for treatment and lie.
 
KellysEye said:
We had a UK holding address but we were still were dropped by our doctor. From memory the NHS rules are if you are away for three years the doctor is required to drop you.

Also, I understand that if you are dropped by the doctor then an NHS hospital won't treat you unless you have returned permanently. I think some do fly back for treatment and lie.
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Which raises the question - how do they know someone is away unless they were daft enough to tell them? Must be thousands of people who haven't been to their GP for several years but not struck off.
 
GrahamM376 said:
Which raises the question - how do they know someone is away unless they were daft enough to tell them? Must be thousands of people who haven't been to their GP for several years but not struck off.
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Don't know about GPs, but in hospitals the question about residency is often asked. The regulations on free treatment do indeed allow it to be witheld if you are out of the country for more than 3 months. However if you are referred by a GP then the question is not asked. What can present difficulties is if you just turn up at a hospital (other than accident) without a referral.
 
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