EEA Nationals can receive National Health Service (NHS) care while in the UK. If you are in the UK for more than six months you will receive free treatment from NHS hospitals. If your stay is for less than six months and you hold form E128 you can receive free NHS treatment. Form E128 is available from the relevant health authority in your home country and must be issued before you leave your country.
If your stay is for less than six months and you do not hold form E128, you could be charged for any treatment from a doctor at a hospital for a pre-existing condition (i.e. a condition that you had before coming to the UK).
Leaflets explaining your rights to NHS health care are available from Social Security offices, hospitals, doctors, dentists and opticians and from the Department of Health website: www.doh.gov.uk
You can download the UKCISA guidance note Keeping Healthy at www.ukcosa.org.uk/pages/guidenote.htm
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