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date	24/11/2021
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Health Services: Foreign Nationals
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the report by the Institute for Public Policy Research Towards True Universal Care: Reforming the NHS Charging System, published on 23 November; and what plans they have to set up an independent body to (1) receive complaints about the charging system, and (2) review decisions by providers.
tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
uin	HL4411
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2021 answer text <p>The Department has reviewed the report and has no plans to set up an independent body to receive complaints or review decisions on charging by providers. It is the legal duty of providers of relevant NHS services to make and recover charges from overseas visitors and to do so fairly and consistently.</p> answering member printed Lord Kamall question first answered 13/12/2021 13:43:55 answering member 4909 label Biography information for Lord Kamall
tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

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date	08/01/2019
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Health Services: Foreign Nationals
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many written submissions they have received as part of the review of the National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) (Amendment) Regulations 2017; how many case studies were submitted to the review where urgent care was withheld; and what assessment they have made of the number of case studies submitted where urgent care was, or may have, been incorrectly withheld.
tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
uin	HL12662
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2019 answer text <p>The Department engaged with 79 organisations as part of the process of reviewing of the National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) (Amendment) Regulations 2017 and received 57 formal responses. Of these, 22 case studies included instances where individuals were required to make advance payment for treatment that the Department has concluded was arguably, on proper analysis, immediately necessary and/or urgent.</p><p>The common issue in these cases is that clinicians have not fully taken into account the date at which those seeking treatment have been expected to leave the United Kingdom, something that national guidance is clear must be taken into consideration when making a decision as to whether or not treatment is considered urgent. To mitigate this risk and help ensure the regulations are applied as intended the Department has updated its guidance, published on 24 December 2018, and is planning further updates to relevant training material and case studies in early 2019 to ensure all relevant circumstances are considered when deciding if a treatment is to be considered immediately necessary, urgent or non-urgent.</p> answering member printed Baroness Manzoor question first answered 22/01/2019 16:03:35 answering member 4289 label Biography information for Baroness Manzoor
tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath