Internal Reference Number: FOI_6439
Date Request Received: 19/01/2022 00:00:00
Date Request Replied To: 20/01/2022 00:00:00
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Request Summary: Charges to Overseas Visitors and Migrants
Request Category: Private Individuals
| Question Number 1: Between Feb 2020 and December 2021, did your Trust treat any overseas visitors or migrants (e.g. those usually subject to cost recovery provisions)? If YES: (a) How many of these were treated for COVID-19? (b) How many of these patients did your Trust exempted for charges related to their treatment under the "Guidance on implementing the overseas visitor charging regulations (amended Feb 2020)"? (c) If available, please provide nationalities (individual or coded by continent), ages and gender of these patients. | |
| Answer To Question 1: 1(a) =/<5 1(b) All of them 1(c) Due to the number of patients involved we are not able to provide further details as this could become patient identifiable. | |
| Question Number 2: If NO to Q1: (d) Prior to Feb 2020, did your Trust treat any overseas visitors or migrants and recover costs? If so, can you provide the cost recovery information for the preceding 5 years. | |
| Answer To Question 2: This information is published in the Trust鈥檚 annual report: /about-us/trust-reports-and-reviews/ | |
| Question Number 3: What, if any, training has been given in your trust to those engaged in cost recovery about the application of new provision around COVID-19 and the implementation of the amendments to the guidance on charging? If this training or information is available in textual formats (e.g. PDF/JPG/PPT or the like), please can you attach it to your response. | |
| Answer To Question 3: Information not held. The Trust Overseas patients team members attend regular regulatory updates hosted by 看片软件E&I from whom this information may be available. | |
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