PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Medical Treatments Abroad: Coronavirus (12 May 2021)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure that patients who began medical treatment abroad are able to continue that treatment in the UK, particularly during the covid-19 pandemic.

Asked by:
Nadia Whittome (Labour)

A United Kingdom national travelling from this country should have appropriate travel insurance in place in the event that they become ill overseas and wish to be medically repatriated home to continue treatment. Once home, a patient would be treated as any other who is ordinarily resident in the UK and will be able to continue their treatment as appropriate.

Answered by:
Edward Argar (Conservative)
17 May 2021