Nurses: Schools

(asked on 15th March 2018) - View Source
Questioner
Jonathan Ashworth Portrait
Jonathan Ashworth
(Labour (Co-op) - Leicester South)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many children have been refused access to a school nurse since the introduction of the NHS (Charges to Overseas Visitors) (Amendment) Regulations 2017.

Answered by
Steve Barclay Portrait
Steve Barclay
Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
This question was answered on 20th March 2018

This information is not collected. However, services provided by school nurses and health visitors remain outside the scope of the Charging Regulations and so access to these services should not be refused.

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