Health Services: Foreign Nationals
(asked on 21st February 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many foreign nationals received treatment on the NHS via the visitors charging regime in each of the last five years.
This question was answered on 1st March 2023
We have taken foreign national to mean an overseas visitor. The following table shows that over the last five years the National Health Service has received £150 million from overseas visitors.
Year | 2017/18 | 2018/19 | 2019/20 | 2020/21 | 2021/22 |
Cash payments received | £30 million | £35 million | £39 million | £21 million | £25 million |
Source: Consolidated NHS provider accounts