First time travelling back to the UK as an expat - Checklist
May 8th 2019, 3:38 pm
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Re: First time travelling back to the UK as an expat - Checklist
Emergency treatment is just stabilising the patient, eg in a hospital emergency department. Subsequent hospital stays, surgery, recovery, rehabilitation and repatriation are not covered.
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May 8th 2019, 4:18 pm
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Re: First time travelling back to the UK as an expat - Checklist
I don't see how it couldn't be successfully argued that I moved overseas for 'work purposes'.
May 8th 2019, 4:21 pm
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Re: First time travelling back to the UK as an expat - Checklist
I moved overseas for work purposes, that move was within the last five years and immediately prior to the move I was ordinarily resident in the UK for at least ten years.
I'm not the kind of the person that would fly back to the UK for medical treatment on the basis that I've "paid in all my life" and all that nonsense, but I obtained an NHS prescription on my last visit to the UK and had no qualms about doing so since, on the face of it, I was legally entitled to do so.
May 8th 2019, 4:26 pm
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Re: First time travelling back to the UK as an expat - Checklist
I wasn't giving an opinion one way or the other, I was just posting some information that I thought may be useful to you.
May 8th 2019, 4:58 pm
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Re: First time travelling back to the UK as an expat - Checklist
For what it's worth I'm not necessarily sure there SHOULD be a way for me to access the NHS if I no longer live in the UK or pay tax there any more, but the law - as it stands today - is what it is.
May 8th 2019, 5:10 pm
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Re: First time travelling back to the UK as an expat - Checklist
and while you should absolutely EXPECT to pay in England, it's not always well prepared for billing.
May 8th 2019, 8:04 pm
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Re: First time travelling back to the UK as an expat - Checklist
Indeed. A couple of years back my wife went to an NHS walk-in centre in Central London, this being a good five or six years since we'd left the UK, and they were "you're still on the computer as an NHS patient: are you *sure* you have to pay?" She did, it was only about forty quid.
