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Health Services: Channel Islands

Volume 506: debated on Monday 1 March 2010

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many individuals from (a) Guernsey and (b) Jersey have had emergency admission and received treatment from an NHS hospital since the cancellation of the reciprocal health agreement between the Channel Islands and the UK on 1 April 2009; and how many such individuals (i) have been charged the costs of treatment and hospitalisation, (ii) have been billed for costs of treatment and hospitalisation but have yet to make payment, (iii) were exempt from charges by virtue of (A) being in receipt of a UK state pension and having lived in the UK for 10 continuous years, (B) being a spouse or civil partner visiting the UK with an exempt UK state pensioner and (C) being a child visiting the UK with an exempt UK state pensioner; and if he will make a statement. (319359)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health by what method costs have been recouped in respect of charges incurred in emergency hospital admission and treatment of visitors to (a) the UK and (b) England from (i) Guernsey and (ii) Jersey since the cancellation of the reciprocal health agreement between the Channel Islands and the UK health services on 1 April 2009; and if he will make a statement. (319361)

This information is not held centrally. It is for individual trusts to decide how charges are recouped in terms of methodology. This will depend on the circumstances of individual cases.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much has been recouped in charges from visitors from Guernsey and Jersey since the cancellation on 1 April 2009 of the reciprocal health agreements between the Channel Islands and the UK consequent upon their emergency admission and receipt of treatment in UK NHS hospitals; and if he will make a statement. (319696)