Health Services: Foreign Nationals

(asked on 4th November 2025) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to review the circumstances in which non-UK nationals can use the NHS free of charge.


Answered by
Karin Smyth Portrait
Karin Smyth
Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 18th November 2025

The Department has no plans at present to review the circumstances in which non-United Kingdom nationals can use the National Health Service free of charge.

We continue to work with NHS England to ensure that the system of cost recovery from overseas visitors works as effectively and fairly as possible.

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