Health written question – answered at on 12 October 2011.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the answer of 5 July 2011, Official Report, column 1179W, on health services: overseas visitors (a) how much was owed to the NHS in unpaid bills incurred by foreign nationals and (b) what the sum was of NHS bills incurred by foreign nationals in each year between 1997 and 2011 by primary care trust.
The sum of national health service bills incurred by overseas visitors is made up of: income received; total losses, bad debt and claims abandoned; and income which is still in the process of being recovered (not all figures will fall in the same year in which charges incurred).
I refer my hon. Friend to the answer I gave him on
The Department has not made an estimate of the total amount of monies owed by overseas visitors that the NHS is in the process of recovering.
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