PART 11Records and information

F1Information relating to overseas visitors67F

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 the Board for this purpose; and

b

where applicable in the case of a patient, record the fact that the patient is the holder of a European Health Insurance Card or S1 Healthcare Certificate 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 60 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 which has not been issued to the patient by the United Kingdom, the information contained on that card 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 NHS Digital—

a

electronically at NHSDIGITAL-EHIC@nhs.net; or

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, the contractor must send that certificate, or a copy of that certificate, to the Department for Work and Pensions—

a

b

by post in hard copy form to the Overseas Visitors Healthcare Team, Durham House, Washington, Tyne and Wear, NE38 7SF.