Health Services: Foreign Nationals
(asked on 25th March 2019) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much money was recovered by the NHS from overseas visitors in (a) 2016, (b) 2017 and (c) 2018.
The total amount of National Health Service treatment recovered from overseas visitors in each of the last three years is provided in the following table.
All income recovered is directed straight back to the NHS frontline.
| 2015-16 | 2016-17 | 2017-18 |
Payments Received (England only) | £196 million | £281 million | £290 million |
The United Kingdom Government has made an offer to countries in the European Union/European Economic Area and Switzerland to extend existing healthcare arrangements for UK nationals if the UK leaves without a deal.