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For those of you that travel to another country without buying health insurance, new EHIC rules from July 2014

If you visit another EEA country where that country requires its own citizens to pay a patient contribution, you will also need to pay this. You will no longer be able to claim reimbursement for this payment when you return to the UK for treatment received after July 1 2014.

You may still be able to claim reimbursements for any co-payments you made for treatment received abroad before July 1 2014.
EHIC - co-payment update - NHS Choices

Remember that the UK EHIC does not cover having you transferred back to UK hospitals; you need private insurance for that.

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and bloody expensive it is as well, a friend who was repatriated a few years ago was charged £10,000, he wasn't on holiday, but a resident of Spain, but was dying from lung cancer and wanted to die in the UK where his family were. He was fortunate that he was an ex policeman, and the police union paid for his repatriation.

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In France, a doctor has to confirm that you are really in need of an ambulance service, otherwise you’ll have to carry the cost of the ambulance transport.

http://www.nhs.uk/NHSEngland/Healthc...einFrance.aspx

and you now can't claim that money back from the UK.

Perhaps this is why the UK government now intends to add 25% to the bill of an EU citizen?