Penny's activity

Thanks for the info Helen. It does seem to be a problem we are having that is specific to the ASL in Ascoli Piceno. Another member in Macerata has also received their permanent registration with the health service. I now can't seem to raise the director of Ascoli whom I spoke to before. Avoiding me perhaps???

You're very unlikely to be able to use your UK sky box I'm afraid. The reception just is not good enough in this part of Italy without an enormous dish and even then other people tell me they lose the signal at certain times of the day. We have Sky Italia and it is fine as lots of programs can be switched into English if you want (including almost all the film channels).To find out if you are covered for ADSL go here: http://www.alice.it/verifica_copertura.html and check a neighbour's phone number. 

Direct Line will accept your no claims bonus but the original statement from the UK is required and it must say how many years no claims you have not just the %age. The document from the UK must be less than 6 months old.

Definitely Alice. It is impossible to speak to a real person at Tiscali! Telecom Italia may have their problems but at leats you can speak to someone

Your experience is not unique as I'm afraid it seems to be the case that ASUR13 (Ascoli) is applying different rules which in my opinion and that of my lawyer friend are completely against the law.  The problem is what we do about it......

That is a different area and I would be very interested to see what they say to you! Thanks.

Have you looked in Stefano Lucozzi's brother's ferramenta in Amandola? He has some really nice old style window/door handles near the door on the left. They are part of some kind of heritage range and look handmade and aged nicely.

Thanks for the info Jo. When you mention the tessera sanitaria, are you talking about the blue plastic card? If so, this is slightly different. In our ASUR, they give you a white slip of paper called a libretto sanitaria (as well as getting the blue plastic tessera sanitaria). Did you get one of these? If you did, what is the expiry date? Thanks in advance for the info!

Thanks very much for the offer. Can't think of anything at the moment. Do you also come under ASUR13?

I am completely open to suggestions but the reason I created the Marche Healthcare group was for stuff specific to Marche. There is already a Health topic and I left all the generic messages and my message with links to all the docs in the general Health topic as well. A lot of the stuff I am finding out is completely specific to Marche and does not apply to other regions so could confuse people. For example, it seems as if only the Ascoli Piceno ASUR is insisting on only issuing an annual libretto sanitaria (against the law by the way!). Another member in Alto Adige has successfully got her indefinite libretto with no problems at all. I had kind of assumed that the health messages relating to the whole of Italy would stay in the Health topic and anything specific to Marche (and probably boring to anyone else)  would go into Marche Healthcare. Does that sound reasonable?