What Really Does Happen if You?re in the Military and you Suffer an Injury or Illness?

Posted on June 9, 2009

Gone are the days when service personnel would be whisked off to a hm forces private hospital by the unit Medical Officer. Our soldiers now have to travel greater and greater distances just to see a doctors spoke their language, understood their lifestyles and their neighbour in the ward would be off the same block. But the main advantage was getting the treatment required rapidly at a speed that was required to keep the serviceman “out of his rôle? for as short a period of time as possible. What is the point of keeping a professional standing army at great expense to the country when a certain percentage ? currently about 8% – are physically unable to perform their assigned rôle due to having to wait, like the rest of us, for forces healthcare treatment from the NHS. Because that’s the reality of how our servicemen are treated these days. Not that we are questioning the quality of , the individual has to take steps to ensure that they can access private forces healthcare where and when they need it. Sadly in reality purchasing private private forces healthcare costs money.