{"id":90786,"date":"2018-04-06T12:06:17","date_gmt":"2018-04-06T12:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=212f5487dfebd9eb09a024542cff0757"},"modified":"2018-04-06T12:06:17","modified_gmt":"2018-04-06T12:06:17","slug":"news-story-review-into-nhs-overseas-visitor-charges-call-for-submissions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=90786","title":{"rendered":"News story: Review into NHS overseas visitor charges: call for submissions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.legislation.gov.uk\/uksi\/2017\/756\/contents\/made\">National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) (Amendment) Regulations 2017<\/a> came into effect in 2017. You can read about these changes in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/guidance-on-overseas-visitors-hospital-charging-regulations\">Guidance on implementing the overseas visitor charging regulations<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Health and Social Care has been evaluating the impact of these changes on:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>upfront charging<\/li>\n<li>amending patient records<\/li>\n<li>community services<\/li>\n<li>non-NHS providers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This review is focusing on:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the impact of the new regulations on vulnerable groups \u2013 such as those with protected characteristics<\/li>\n<li>how any negative effects that are identified can be addressed<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you or your organisation have information or experiences that are relevant to the review, please contact <a href=\"mailto:alexander.sinclair@dh.gsi.gov.uk\">alexander.sinclair@dh.gsi.gov.uk<\/a> (0113 254 5760) by 23.59 on Friday 1 June 2018.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government is reviewing the impact of changes to regulations on recovering the cost of health treatments provided to overseas visitors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90786"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}