Health Services: Foreign Nationals
(asked on 15th October 2019) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Answer of 25 March 2019 to Question 236341, Health Services: Foreign Nationals, what the total sum was that NHS trusts (a) charged to and (b) recovered from patients not covered by the EHIC scheme under the NHS overseas visitors charging regime in (i) England, (ii) Scotland and (iii) Wales in each financial year from 2015-16 to 2019-20.
The following table shows all identified and received directly chargeable income, excluding EHIC, S1, S2 and Immigration Health Surcharge income in each year from 2015/16, for England:
Year | Invoiced income | Payments received |
2015/16 | £68,481 | £28,854 |
2016/17 | £81,402 | £29,602 |
2017/18 | £86,836 | £29,086 |
2018/19 | £91,252 | £34,894 |
Notes:
1. Figures are in £000s. |
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2. Invoiced income is invoices raised in year. |
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3. Payments received are in year but may not relate to invoices raised in year. | ||
Figures for 2019/20 are not yet available. Figures for Scotland and Wales are a matter for the devolved administrations. |
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