Health Services: Foreign Nationals

(asked on 23rd April 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the implications for his policies on (a) public health impacts, (b) the role of clinicians in making decisions about care for their patients and (c) compliance with the public sector equality duty, of the British Medical Association report entitled Delayed, deterred, and distressed: The impact of NHS overseas charging regulations on patients and the doctors who care for them, published on 18 April 2019.


Answered by
Stephen Hammond Portrait
Stephen Hammond
This question was answered on 1st May 2019

The Department keeps the impact of the National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) Regulations 2015, which have been amended most recently by the National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) (Amendment) Regulations 2017, under ongoing consideration in line with its continuing public sector equality duty. As such the Department will consider the implications of the British Medical Association report published on 18 April and take any action it deems these findings require.

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