The National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) Regulations 2011

Regulation 6(d)

SCHEDULE 1 Diseases for which no charge is to be made for treatment

• Acute encephalitis

• Acute poliomyelitis

• Anthrax

• Botulism

• Bruscellosis

• Cholera

• Diphtheria

• Enteric fever (typhoid and paratyphoid fever)

• Food poisoning

• Haemolytic uraemic syndrome (HUS)

• Infectious bloody diarrhoea

• Invasive group A streptococcal disease and scarlet fever

• Invasive meningococcal disease (meningococcal meningitis, meningococcal septicaemia and other forms of invasive disease)

• Legionnaires’ Disease

• Leprosy

• Leptospirosis

• Malaria

• Measles

• Mumps

• Pandemic influenza (defined as “phase 6” in the World Health Organisation’s (“WHO”) influenza pandemic phases, or Influenza that might become pandemic (defined as “phase 4” or “phase 5” by WHO)

• Plague

• Rabies

• Rubella

• Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)

• Smallpox

• Tetanus

• Tuberculosis

• Typhus

• Viral haemorrhagic fever

• Viral hepatitis

• Whooping cough

• Yellow fever

Regulation 10, 23(1)(b)

SCHEDULE 2 Reciprocal Agreements

• Anguilla

• Armenia

• Australia

• Azerbaijan

• Barbados

• Belarus

• Bosnia

• British Virgin Islands

• Croatia

• Falkland Islands

• Georgia

• Gibraltar

• Isle of Man

• Israel

• Jersey

• Kazakhstan

• Kyrgyzstan

• Macedonia

• Moldova

• Montenegro

• Montserrat

• New Zealand

• Russia

• Serbia

• St Helena

• Tajikistan

• Turkmenistan

• Turks and Caicos Islands

• Ukraine

• Uzbekistan

Regulation 23(1)(e)

SCHEDULE 3 Games Family

“Games Family” – means the group of individuals who are taking part or involved in the Olympic or Paralympic Games in London 2012 (“the Games”), and who have been given a letter code for the purpose of receiving free treatment the need for which arose during the visit to the United Kingdom.

This includes the following groups:

Athletes – comprising athletes and their supporting team officials participating in the Games as accredited members of a National Olympic Committee or National Paralympic Committee delegation;

Technical officials – comprising the team of individuals that officiates the field of play and athlete areas at the Games;

Press – comprising the Games accredited representatives of photographic and written press;

Broadcasters – comprising the Olympic Broadcast Service and all the Games-related rights holding broadcasting organisations;

Olympic and Paralympic family – comprising the International Olympic Committee and International Paralympic Committee organisations (and their constituents), Chairmen and Chief Executive Officers (or equivalent).

Regulation 25(1)

SCHEDULE 4 Instruments revoked

Instruments revoked	References	Extent of revocation
The National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) Regulations 1989	S.I. 1989/306	The whole Regulations
The National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) Amendment Regulations 1991	S.I. 1991/438	The whole Regulations
The National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) (Amendment) Regulations 1994	S.I. 1994/1535	The whole Regulations
The National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) Amendment Regulations 2000	S.I. 2000/602	The whole Regulations
The National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) Amendment (No 2) Regulations 2000	S.I. 2000/909	The whole Regulations
The National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) (Amendment) Regulations 2004	S.I. 2004/614	The whole Regulations
The Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003 (Supplementary and Consequential Provision) (NHS Foundation Trusts) Order 2004	S.I. 2004/696	Schedule 1, paragraph 5, and Schedules 2 and 8, so far as they relate to the National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) Regulations 1989
The Civil Partnership Act 2004 (Amendments to Subordinate Legislation) Order 2005	S.I. 2005/2114	Schedule 3, paragraph 1
The National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) (Amendment) Regulations 2006	S.I. 2006/3306	The whole Regulations
The National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) (Amendment) Regulations 2008	S.I. 2008/2251	The whole Regulations
The National Health Service (Charges) (Amendments Relating to Pandemic Influenza) Regulations 2009	S.I. 2009/1166	Regulation 3

Regulation 25(2)

SCHEDULE 5 Amendments Consequential on the Revocation of the National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) Regulations 1989

Amendment of the Human Tissue Act 2004 (Ethical Approval, Exceptions from Licensing and Supply of Information about Transplants) Regulations 2006

1.  In the Human Tissue Act 2004 (Ethical Approval, Exceptions from Licensing and Supply of Information about Transplants) Regulations 2006(1), in Schedule 2 (receipt of transplantable material), in paragraph 10(c) after “Schedule 2 to the National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) Regulations 1989” insert “, Schedule 2 to the National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) Regulations 2011”.

Amendment of the Personal Injuries (NHS Charges) (General) and Road Traffic (NHS Charges) (Amendment) Regulations 2006

2.  In the Personal Injuries (NHS Charges) (General) and Road Traffic (NHS Charges) (Amendment) Regulations 2006(2), in regulation 1(3)(interpretation)—

(a) omit the definition of “the 1989 Regulations”; and

(b) in the definition of “overseas visitors’ charge” for “regulation 2(1) of the 1989 Regulations” substitute “regulation 2(1) of the National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) Regulations 1989 (making and recovery of charges) or regulation 3 of the National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) Regulations 2011 (obligation to make and recover charges)”.

Amendment of the Personal Injuries (NHS Charges) (Amounts) Regulations 2007

3.  In the Personal Injuries (NHS Charges)(Amounts) Regulations 2007(3), in regulation 3A(2)(a) (reduction in respect of overseas visitors’ charges), after “regulation 2(1) of the National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) Regulations 1989” insert “or regulation 3 of the National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) Regulations 2011 (obligation to make and recover charges)”.

(1)

S.I. 2006/1260. There are no relevant amending instruments.

(2)

S.I. 2006/3388 as amended by S.I. 2009/316.

(3)

S.I. 2007/115. Regulation 3A was inserted by S.I. 2009/316.