Health written question – answered at on 12 September 2005.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what reciprocal financial arrangements her Department and her overseas counterparts will be putting in place under the European health insurance card scheme.
The European health insurance card (EHIC) scheme, like the E111 arrangements which it will replace, has its origins in Regulations 1408/71 and 574/72, which provide that member states shall pay each other for treatments given to each other's insured persons. Regulation 574 specifies how this shall be done, but member states may bilaterally agree to other mutually acceptable methods of payment. These arrangements already apply in respect of E111 and will also apply to the EHIC.
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