Please can anyone tell me can my American husband get a oxygen concentrator for free on the NHS thank you
Help for my American husband - Lung Conditions C...
Help for my American husband
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Hi
If you husband as a national insurance number and is registered with a GP, and as been assessed as needing oxygen therapy then he will be entitled to any oxygen equipment that is suitable for his needs.
If he lives in the UK and qualifies to use the NHS then yes .
assuming he is entitled...
if he hasn't yet been assessed then you need to get him assessed. the GP will help.
I was sent to a pulmonary rehab course and they found i needed it. the GP etc didn't pick it up as my O2 only drops on exertion. so if i am sitting my O2 was fine (as you are during a consultation). it was only on the course where I was made to exercise that the problem became obvious.
the course tutors then sent to the respiratory nurse who first gave me liquid oxygen. but i didn't get on with it. then I got a POC which i find very helpful.
btw the equipment is not mine. it is on loan from the NHS. if anything happens to me it must be returned to the NHS.