Health Services: Standards
(asked on 18th July 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether there is a mechanism to measure delays in the NHS treatment encountered by British citizens when moving back to the UK from abroad.
This question was answered on 5th September 2017
No information is held centrally to measure waiting times for National Health Service treatment for British citizens who have moved back to the United Kingdom from abroad. When a patient is referred for treatment, they should be treated according to clinical priority and then in the chronological order of when they were added to the list.