Health Services: Foreign Nationals
(asked on 11th November 2025) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much the NHS has recovered from patients who were not entitled to free NHS in each of the last three years.
For this answer, we have taken ‘patients who were not entitled’ to mean chargeable overseas visitors.
The Department publishes data on the income identified from chargeable overseas visitors in England as part of the Department’s Annual Report and Accounts. The cash payments received by the National Health Service from overseas visitors are also published annually in the consolidated NHS provider accounts. The following table shows the aggregate income identified, and cash payments received by the NHS in England, from overseas visitors over the last three years:
Year | 2021/22 | 2022/23 | 2023/24 |
Aggregate income identified | £67,000,000 | £100,000,000 | £123,000,000 |
Cash payments received in-year | £25,000,000 | £32,000,000 | £42,000,000 |
Source: The Department of Health and Social Care Annual Report and Accounts and Consolidated NHS provider accounts.