Immigration: Patients

(asked on 6th October 2017) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what requirements she has placed on the NHS to report on patients' immigration status.


Answered by
Brandon Lewis Portrait
Brandon Lewis
This question was answered on 18th October 2017

The Home Office has not placed any requirements on the NHS to report on patients’ immigration status.

As specified in the Immigration Rules, the Home Office may refuse an immigration application where the applicant has failed to pay an NHS debt of £500 or more in accordance with the relevant NHS regulations on charges to overseas visitors. The Department of Health has put in place arrangements through which the NHS notifies the Home Office of these debts.

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