Health Services: Foreign Nationals

(asked on 21st February 2023) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many foreign nationals received treatment on the NHS via the visitors charging regime in each of the last five years.


Answered by
Will Quince Portrait
Will Quince
This question was answered on 1st March 2023

We have taken foreign national to mean an overseas visitor. The following table shows that over the last five years the National Health Service has received £150 million from overseas visitors.

Year

2017/18

2018/19

2019/20

2020/21

2021/22

Cash payments received

£30 million

£35 million

£39 million

£21 million

£25 million

Source: Consolidated NHS provider accounts

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