Supporting information include:
• Information for primary care staff explaining how the cost of providing healthcare for overseas visitors from the European Economic Area can be reclaimed from the visitor’s country of residence and what primary care staff can do to support hospitals in recovering costs from these visitors.
• Information on overseas chargeable patients, NHS debt, and immigration rules, including guidance on administration and data sharing.
• A list of answers to questions frequently asked by NHS organisations on the EHIC incentive scheme and sets out what the scheme is in detail.
• Background on EU cross-border healthcare directive and how it relates to providers when managing visiting European patients who are resident outside the UK but seeking NHS healthcare here.
• Summary of changes made to the way the NHS charges overseas visitors for NHS hospital care following the overseas visitor hospital charging regulations.
• Document outlining ways in which people can be lawfully resident in the UK, in order to support implementation of the overseas visitor hospital charging regulations.
• Operational overview to help non-NHS bodies within the scope of the NHS (Charges to Overseas Visitors) Regulations 2015 understand and meet their new obligations.
• Operational framework on upfront charging, supporting identification and charging of overseas visitors.
• Posters and leaflets communicating important information that overseas visitors and migrants need to know if they intend to use the NHS.