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answer text: The Department has confirmed that certain groups of people will continue to be exempt from charges for national health service treatment on humanitarian grounds, including refugees, asylum seekers and victims of human trafficking, and is currently considering if any further exemption from charge categories are justified. This will be confirmed shortly when the Department responds to the recent consultation Sustaining services, ensuring fairness—A consultation on migrant access and their financial contribution to NHS provision in England. As is the case now, where a patient is chargeable for NHS treatment, no one in need of immediately necessary or urgent treatment will have that withheld or delayed, even if they have not paid in advance.
answer given date: 2013-10-29+00:00
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