Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what guidance his Department provides to NHS staff on filing medical care cost claims under the EHIC system.

The Department of has published Guidance on implementing the overseas visitors charging regulations. This provides detailed advice to National Health Service staff on their organisations’ legal duties to make and recover charges from overseas visitors provided with secondary care services and how best to do this, including the process for seeking reimbursement where appropriate from European Economic Area member states under the European Health Insurance Card system. More technical advice for those submitting reimbursement claims and advice on what staff can do to support hospitals in recovering costs from these visitors is also available.

The guidance can be found here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/guidance-on-overseas-visitors-hospital-charging-regulations