Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 9885

Health Services: Foreign Nationals

Tabled: 17 October 2024

Answered: 24 October 2024

Question

James McMurdock

Independent — South Basildon and East Thurrock

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to prevent health tourism to the UK.

Answer

Karin Smyth

The National Health Service is a residency-based system, so only those who are ‘ordinarily resident’ in the United Kingdom, or otherwise exempt from charges under the NHS (Charges to Overseas Visitors) Regulations 2015 (the Charging Regulations), are elig...

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