PART 10Records and information

F3Information relating to overseas visitors74F

1

A contractor must—

a

record the information specified in paragraph (2) relating to overseas visitors, where that information has been provided to it by a newly registered patient on a form supplied to the contractor by F11NHS England for this purpose; and

F8b

where applicable in the case of a patient, record the fact that the patient is the holder of a document—

i

which is—

aa

a European Health Insurance Card;

bb

an S1 Healthcare Certificate; or

cc

a document which, for the purposes of a listed healthcare arrangement as defined in regulation 1(3) of the Healthcare (European Economic Area and Switzerland Arrangements) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019, is treated as equivalent to a document referred to in sub-paragraph (aa) (“EHIC equivalent document”) or (bb) (“S1 equivalent document”); and

ii

which has not been issued to or in respect of the patient by the United Kingdom,

in the medical record that the contractor is required to keep under regulation 67 in respect of the patient.

2

The information specified in this paragraph is—

a

in the case of a patient who holds a European Health Insurance Card F1or EHIC equivalent document which has not been issued to the patient by the United Kingdom, the information contained on that card F9or document in respect of the patient; and

b

in the case of a patient who holds a Provisional Replacement Certificate issued in respect of the patient’s European Health Insurance Card, the information contained on that certificate in respect of the patient.

3

The information referred to in paragraph (2) must be submitted by the contractor to F5NHS England—

b

by post in hard copy form to EHIC, PDS NBO, NHS Digital, Smedley Hydro, Trafalgar Road, Southport, Merseyside, PR8 2HH.

4

Where the patient is the holder of an S1 Healthcare Certificate F4or S1 equivalent document, the contractor must send that certificate F10or document, or a copy of that certificate F10or document, to the F7the NHS Business Services Authority—

F2b

by post in hard copy form to Cost Recovery, Overseas Healthcare Service, Bridge House, 152 Pilgrim Street, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 6SN.