Maternity Services: Foreign Nationals

(asked on 20th June 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department holds information on the number of destitute women who have been charged for NHS maternity care under the National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) Regulations 2015; and if he will make a statement.


Answered by
Steve Barclay Portrait
Steve Barclay
Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
This question was answered on 26th June 2018

The Department does not hold this information.

The national guidance is clear that National Health Service maternity treatment should always be considered as immediately necessary and provided to all patients regardless of whether or not they are entitled to receive it free of charge or there are doubts about whether they could pay if subsequently found to be chargeable under the NHS (Charges to Overseas Visitors) Regulations 2015, as amended.

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