Impact assessment

Overseas NHS visitors: amending and extending the charging regulations

Assessment of impact of amendments to the National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) Regulations 2015 (the charging regulations).

• From: Department of Health and Social Care
• Published: 28 August 2018

This was published under the 2016 to 2019 May Conservative government

Documents

Visitor and migrant NHS cost recovery – amending and extending the charging regulations

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Details

This document analyses the impact of amending the charging regulations to give the government powers to:

• extend charging to apply to non-NHS providers of NHS-funded care, and secondary care delivered outside the hospital setting
• require upfront charging for non-urgent planned care
• remove assisted reproduction services from the scope of what is available free of charge to immigration health charge payers (or equivalent)
• remove the current exemption category relating to a subset of ship workers
• require NHS trusts and foundation trusts to flag a patient’s record to indicate chargeable status

(First published in 2017)

Published 28 August 2018