The NHS visitor and migrant cost recovery programme – a threat to health?

Abstract Background In April 2014 the UK government launched the ‘NHS Visitor and Migrant Cost Recovery Programme Implementation Plan’ which set out a series of policy changes to recoup costs from ‘chargeable’ (largely non-UK born) patients. In England, approximately 75% of tuberculosis (TB) cases o...

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Main Authors: J. L. Potter, M. Burman, C. D. Tweed, D. Vaghela, H. Kunst, D. Swinglehurst, C. J. Griffiths
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-04-01
Series:BMC Public Health
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12889-020-08524-9