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Originally Posted by Damien
Presumably the EEA card allows the NHS to claim the money back from the respective health service.
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Yes and I dare say some countries are far better at paying up than others.
Meanwhile this sort of thing will continue to happen:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/he...th-on-NHS.html
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A heavily-pregnant woman from Nigeria flew thousands of miles to have her baby at a Manchester hospital costing the taxpayer around £10,000, it has emerged.
The 'health tourist' travelled more than 3,000 miles from her home country to the cash-strapped Wythenshawe Hospital for an emergency caesarean.
It is understood the woman, who was educated at top US university Harvard, flew to Manchester Airport and went directly to the hospital where she told doctors she required the procedure after a scan in Nigeria revealed complications in her pregnancy.
The hospital will now try to bill the woman for her treatment but has no powers to force her to pay or to prevent her leaving the country.
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