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<p> </p><p>The Department is working to support the National Health Service to increase
the recovery of costs from overseas visitors and migrants. We aim to recover £500
million annually by the middle of the next Parliament, which will be reinvested into
the NHS to support the sustainability of NHS frontline services.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>
</p><p>The Department published its Implementation Plan on 14 July 2014 at:</p><p>
</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>www.gov.uk/government/publications/recovering-costs-of-nhs-healthcare-from-visitors-and-migrants</p><p>
</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>This sets out how the Department will improve the recovery
rates from overseas visitors and migrants over the next year. It announced a number
of measures to support these efforts but also laid the foundations for additional
areas to be looked at as the programme progresses.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>As part of
the programme the Department is starting a programme of financial incentives to support
the NHS in identifying chargeable visitors and migrants using the NHS. These incentives
recognise the administrative and financial burdens that can face NHS trusts in the
recovery process and aim to counter balance these. The implementation plan provides
the full detail of these schemes.</p>
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