Private health cover?

Hey there @ExhaustedCarer. Thank you so much for sharing ❤️ It sounds like you've got a lot on your plate. Hopefully we can find you some answers!

I thought I'd tag some of our wonderful community guides who are carers. Their experiences are a little different, but I wonder if @Shaz51 or @maddison have any guidance on private health insurance?

I've also just done a quick search of the forums for "private health insurance" to see what came up. This is what I found.

On the Carers, family and friends homepage, you can search here if you need it in the future!

Big hugs,

TuxedoCat

From experience, when I was in 'crisis' @ExhaustedCarer , I didn't have to wait or use private health.

I HAD private health, but my treatment was through the public system. It was about connecting with the right services and being able to advocate for myself.

Hope that helps @ExhaustedCarer . But please know I'm not here to tell you whether to take or not take private health insurance.

Kindest, tyme

Hello @ExhaustedCarer ,

I am a carer for my mum

and my husband has MI

And I have physical problems

And we have no private health cover , we have had no trouble getting treatment through the public system

I have found lots services which has helped us

@tyme , @Former-Member

Thanks so much all! Brother currently on wait list for a community-based rehab. Think it’s only a few weeks away- but I’ve got a forensic clean organised at mum’s in a week and that’s where my brother is staying. It’s just dawned on my in last few days, perhaps if we had private insurance we could get him in somewhere ASAP. In any case he has been very decently served by the public system. He uses ambulances frequently so ambulance cover would probably make sense. Thanks all- so much knowledge in this space 🙂