Healthcare Entitlement for Overseas Visitors

Patients from overseas are not always entitled to free NHS treatment. To establish whether or not they are entitled the following criteria should be checked:

Patients should be ‘ordinarily resident’ which means you are going to be living in the UK for at least 6 months. Patients must be able to provide paperwork which shows they are lawfully resident with a ‘settled purpose’ or they are an asylum seeker.

Patients may have to pay for consultations and subsequent treatment if they do not qualify under the criteria.