Not about disability today. I'm really seething about having been caught by an Internet scam. Usually, I'm really smug - think with running two websites I've seen it all! But no, I dropped straight into paying for something that is free!
I'm managing to get abroad for a week this year and needed to renew my E111 medical cover for Europe. So I put E111 into Google and clicked on one of the first links that came up. All was fine. I was presented with a brief pro forma to fill in my details and then paid £9.50 by credit card for the service. As someone pointed out to me later, the new European Health Insurance Card that replaces E111 is free of charge. I had just been scammed into paying for a free service!
The card does arrive, but the purpose of this blog is to warn anyone else applying for a European Health Insurance Card to avoid the sponsored links on Google. The site I stupidly used was http://www.e111.org.uk/apply.html, but there are others. Go instead to http://www.nhs.uk/nhsengland/Healthcareabroad/pages/Healthcareabroad.aspx and get it free!
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