The National Health Service (Travelling Expenses and Remission of Charges) Regulations 1988

Entitlement to full remission and payment

3.—(1) Any person of a description prescribed by regulation 4 is entitled, in accordance with the following provisions of these Regulations, to the remission of the whole amount of any charges referred to in paragraph (2) which would otherwise be payable by him (“relevant charges”) and payment of the whole amount of the travelling expenses referred to in paragraphs (3) and (4) (“relevant travelling expenses”).

(2) Paragraph (1) applies to the following charges—

(a) charges for drugs, medicines, appliances and pharmaceutical services payable in pursuance of section 77(1) of the Act;

(b) charges for dental appliances and dental treatment payable in pursuance of section 78(1) or section 79(1) of the Act.

(3) Paragraph (1) applies in the case of travelling expenses necessarily incurred or to be incurred by a person—

(a) in attending a hospital for the purpose of availing himself of services provided under the care of a hospital consultant in pursuance of the Act,

(b) in attending a disablement services centre for the purpose of availing himself of services provided by the Disablement Services Authority(1) in pursuance of the Act,

including the travelling expenses of a companion in a case where it is necessary on medical grounds that that person should be accompanied.

(4) The travelling expenses to be taken into account for the purposes of paragraph (3) are to be the cost of travelling by the cheapest means of transport available.

(1)

See the Disablement Services Authority (Establishment and Constitution) Order 1987 (S.I. 1987/808).