Ex pat children and access to UK NHS
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Ex pat children and access to UK NHS
My son has been living in Dubai since August 2012, my grand daughter, aged 2, has a heart condition. My son is under the impression that children can still access the NHS for 3 years, is this correct? I am a concerned grandma and hope someone can put my mind at ease.
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Re: Ex pat children and access to UK NHS
I'm going to move your post into our UK forum, as I know we have several people in there who are well-versed in NHS ways. Hopefully some of them can help you out
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Re: Ex pat children and access to UK NHS
Not unless they are ordinarily resident in UK. http://webarchive.nationalarchives.g...able/DH_074374
http://www.pah.nhs.uk/files/c%29%20N...20Citizens.pdf
http://www.pah.nhs.uk/files/c%29%20N...20Citizens.pdf
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Re: Ex pat children and access to UK NHS
Not unless they are ordinarily resident in UK. http://webarchive.nationalarchives.g...able/DH_074374
http://www.pah.nhs.uk/files/c%29%20N...20Citizens.pdf
http://www.pah.nhs.uk/files/c%29%20N...20Citizens.pdf
http://webarchive.nationalarchives.g...able/DH_128866
always assuming that the son was in the UK before arriving in Dubai and for the requisite period of ten years. Plus you need to prove you are only overseas working for up to five years.
Last edited by Pistolpete2; May 25th 2013 at 6:39 pm. Reason: Plus you need to prove........
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Re: Ex pat children and access to UK NHS
But couldn't you satisfy the authorities that this applies, in this case:
http://webarchive.nationalarchives.g...able/DH_128866
always assuming that the son was in the UK before arriving in Dubai and for the requisite period of ten years. Plus you need to prove you are only overseas working for up to five years.
http://webarchive.nationalarchives.g...able/DH_128866
always assuming that the son was in the UK before arriving in Dubai and for the requisite period of ten years. Plus you need to prove you are only overseas working for up to five years.
It seems odd that someone out of the country for 6 months on holiday loses the right but someone working overseas for up to 5 yrs still gets it. Weird!
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Re: Ex pat children and access to UK NHS
Indeed! But the irony is that you would need to convince the NHS people that you are still ordinarily resident, as per your original post, and you would still get the benefit of NHS hospital treatment. Irony, because typically one is trying to convince the people at HMRC that one is not ordinarily resident but I would guess that if one can show one is still declaring taxes on one's world income because one is still ordinarily resident for tax purposes this must go a long way towards satisfying the NHS people. Ideally there would have to be a pattern of these 6 months on holiday, further ideally with no NHS hospital treatment just because of this issue, and being treated as ordinarily resident for tax purposes. This rule it seems is there to stop people having their cake and eating it.
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Re: Ex pat children and access to UK NHS
We are on an expat posting and the company insures us for medical with BUPA International (a seperate division from the domestic BUPA organisation). It covers us worldwide, as do many medical insurance companies which cover employees on expatriate postings.
Which company is your son insured with?
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Re: Ex pat children and access to UK NHS
Indeed! But the irony is that you would need to convince the NHS people that you are still ordinarily resident, as per your original post, and you would still get the benefit of NHS hospital treatment. Irony, because typically one is trying to convince the people at HMRC that one is not ordinarily resident but I would guess that if one can show one is still declaring taxes on one's world income because one is still ordinarily resident for tax purposes this must go a long way towards satisfying the NHS people. Ideally there would have to be a pattern of these 6 months on holiday, further ideally with no NHS hospital treatment just because of this issue, and being treated as ordinarily resident for tax purposes. This rule it seems is there to stop people having their cake and eating it.