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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gennepher" data-source="post: 2562114" data-attributes="member: 238814">If I lived in England, I could use a walk in centre. I know where they are, because I used them when I lived in Liverpool.Wales, unfortunately, does not have those walk in centres [USER=57698]@lindisfel[/USER]I moved to Wales from LIverpool 18 years ago, and the Welsh medical system was failing then, and I would go back over the border to England to the Walk in centres In Liverpool, or Arrowe Park and there was no problem with me doing that because they treated everyone wherever  they came from, and said it was fine for me to use them, and they encouraged me to go back anytime I needed medical attention.However, I am asked now where I live, if I try to use a walk in centre in England. They say they cannot see me, I have to go back to Wales. But there is a work around....I have an English friend with me, and say I am staying with her in LIverpool at the moment, so then I have to provide my friend's English phone number, and they have said they will be ringing to check I am staying there. Obviously my friend or her husband corroborates.  But I save this work around for my 'emergencies' as I have no GP...However, I am learning more about alternative medicines and therapies to sort myself out when I can...Yet, I was allowed to continue to attend St Paul's Eye Hospital in LIverpool when I moved to Wales. Which I am grateful for. It is a fragmented health care system.</blockquote>

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