Cross-border healthcare – overseas patients

The UK Government announced in February 2017 that NHS hospitals in England will be required to charge patients from overseas upfront for non-urgent, planned care unless they are eligible for free treatment.

How does this apply to the devolved administrations? What are the arrangements for non-UK residents to access NHS healthcare, and for Welsh (and UK) patients to receive treatment abroad? Is this likely to change following the UK’s withdrawal from the EU?

• Primary Source

ESO: Find more information on Wales and the EU Referendum, 23 June 2016 http://www.europeansources.info/advSearchLink?keyword=brexit%20wales%20&searchOption=all

ESO: In Focus: Brexit - The United Kingdom and the European Union http://www.europeansources.info/record/brexit-the-united-kingdom-and-the-european-union/

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