Where are the Dialysis Centres??

[torq]

Can anyone tell me where our Dialysis Centres are? My partners Dad
wants to come and visit from the States but he needs to Diyalise three
times a week. We did it last year, but we had to put everyone through
the emergency system which isn't fair to anyone. This time we have
given the 6 months notice that the centres require and, guess what....
'we don't have the spaces' and one has even said they don't take
emergency Dialysis either (which I think is illegal). We want centres
in the Humberside and South West Devon areas, but people who want to
holiday in the UK and spend money here can't. These people are
expecting to pay for treatment if a Brit said I'll pay they would be
rushed to the top of the list.... Any ideas on this would be
appreciated... remember no bad language!!

[topknot]

Hello torq, I am a dialysis patient as well, I hope these links will
help you, they are,
http://www.globaldialysis.com/Agents.asp?CountryCode=UK and for the
united states is
http://www.medicare.gov/Dialysis/Home.asp?version=alternate&browser=IE%7C6%7CWinXP&language=English&defaultstatus=0&pagelist=Home
I would just cut and paste it, good luck, and I hope they will help you
out.

[torq]

Hi topknot (wonderful alias :) ) Thanks for the links, I have used this
site before, but not in the way you have suggested. Maybe this will
give you a better idea of what this is all about
http://dialysis-vacations.tripod.com . Although I am running this as a
company I am disgusted at some of the attitudes given from some of the
clinics. Some of them almost suggest that Dialysis patients shouldn't
take holidays abroad. Anywho... thanks again, take care of yourself
and wrap up warm in this weather.