| Heading: |
Health Services: Foreign Nationals |
| Question ID: |
1796548 |
| UIN: |
HL6796 |
| House: |
Lords |
| Date tabled: |
2025-04-23 |
| Asking Member ID: |
1251 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Lord Naseby
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Lord Naseby
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to charge foreign patients the cost of non-urgent treatments provided by the NHS. |
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false |
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| Date answered: |
2025-05-09 |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
347 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Baroness Merron
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
Baroness Merron
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| Answer text: |
In England, the charging of overseas visitors for National Health Service healthcare already exists. Overseas visitors who use the NHS in England are charged upfront 150% of the cost of treatment. Only people who are ordinarily resident in the United King... |
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| Answering body ID: |
17 |
| Answering body name: |
Department of Health and Social Care |
| Tweeted: |
true |