Department of Health 6 February 2017
- This paper sets out what the government intends to do to extend charging rules to wider areas of NHS, so that visitors and migrants a contribution for the care that they access.
- This includes:
- requiring NHS providers to obtain charges upfront and in full before a chargeable overseas visitor can access non-urgent treatment
- bringing out of hospital secondary care services and NHS-funded services provided by non-NHS organisations, within the services that chargeable overseas visitors will have to pay for
- removing assisted reproduction services from those that a person who has paid the immigration health surcharge can access without charge
- See News story Recovering the cost of NHS treatments given to overseas visitors
