The National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) Regulations 2015

Regulation 9

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

• Acute encephalitis

• Acute poliomyelitis

• Anthrax

• Botulism

• Brucellosis

• Cholera

• Diphtheria

• Enteric fever (typhoid and paratyphoid fever)

• Food poisoning

• Haemolytic uraemic syndrome (HUS)

• Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)

• 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 the “Pandemic Phase”) or influenza that might become pandemic (defined as the “Alert Phase”) as defined by WHO in the World Health Organisation’s (“WHO”) Pandemic Influenza Risk Management Interim Guidance(1)

• Plague

• Rabies

• Rubella

• Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)

• Smallpox

• Tetanus

• Tuberculosis

• Typhus

• Viral haemorrhagic fever

• Viral hepatitis

• Whooping cough

• Yellow fever

Regulation 14

SCHEDULE 2 Reciprocal agreements

• Anguilla

• Armenia

• Australia

• Azerbaijan

• Barbados

• Belarus

• Bosnia

• British Virgin Islands

• Falkland Islands

• Georgia

• Gibraltar

• Isle of Man

• Israel

• Jersey

• Kazakhstan

• Kosovo

• Kyrgyzstan

• Macedonia

• Moldova

• Montenegro

• Montserrat

• New Zealand

• Russia

• Serbia

• St Helena

• Tajikistan

• Turkmenistan

• Turks and Caicos Islands

• Ukraine

• Uzbekistan

Regulation 26

SCHEDULE 3 Consequential amendments

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

1.  In the Personal Injuries (NHS Charges) (General) and Road Traffic (NHS Charges) (Amendment) Regulations 2006(2), in regulation 1 (citation, commencement, application and interpretation), in paragraph (3), in the definition of “overseas visitors’ charge” for “or regulation 3 of the National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) Regulations 2011 (obligation to make and recover charges)” substitute “, regulation 3 of the National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) Regulations 2011 (obligation to make and recover charges) or regulation 3 of the National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) Regulations 2015 (obligation to make and recover charges)”.

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

2.  In the Human Tissue Act 2004 (Ethical Approval, Exceptions from Licensing and Supply of Information about Transplants) Regulations 2006(3), in Schedule 2 (receipt of transplantable material), in paragraph 10(c) after “Schedule 2 to the National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) Regulations 2011” insert “, Schedule 2 to the National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) Regulations 2015”.

Amendment of the National Health Service (Cross-Border Healthcare) Regulations 2013

3.  In the National Health Service (Cross-Border Healthcare) Regulations 2013(4), at the end of regulation 14 (exemption from NHS charges for certain persons who reside in another member State) insert—

“(5) None of the provisions of this regulation affect any entitlement which any person may have to the provision of services without charge by virtue of regulations made under section 175 of the NHS Act.”.

Regulation 27

SCHEDULE 4 Revocations

(1) Instruments revoked	(2) References	(3) Extent of revocation
The National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) Regulations 2011	SI 2011/1556	The whole Regulations
The National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) Amendment Regulations 2012	SI 2012/1586	The whole Regulations
The National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) (Amendment) Regulations 2014	SI 2014/1534	The whole Regulations
The National Treatment Agency (Abolition) and the Health and Social Care Act 2012 (Consequential, Transitional and Saving Provisions) Order 2013	SI 2013/235	Paragraph 164 of Schedule 2

(1)

The Guidance may be obtained from the World Health Organisation website: http://www.who.int/influenza/preparedness/pandemic/influenza_risk_management/en/ or from the Department of Health, Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Team, Room 101 Richmond House, 79 Whitehall, London SW1A 2NS.

(2)

S.I. 2006/3388, amended by S.I. 2011/1556 and 2009/316.

(3)

S.I. 2006/1260, amended by S.I. 2012/1809 and 2011/1556.

(4)

S.I. 2013/2269.