PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Coronavirus: Children (6 May 2020)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the NHS charging exemption for testing and treatment for covid-19 covers paediatric multisystem inflammatory syndrome, associated with covid-19 in children that have had a negative SARS-CoV-2 PCR test.

Asked by:
Apsana Begum (Independent)

Under the National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) Regulations 2015, as amended, overseas visitors are exempt from charge for the diagnostic test and treatment for COVID-19. Some overseas visitor children with multisystem inflammatory syndrome test negative for COVID-19, but are treated as being COVID-19 patients based on a clinical diagnosis, meaning that their parents will not be charged.

Answered by:
Edward Argar (Conservative)
1 June 2020