The National Health Service (Travelling Expenses and Remission of Charges) Amendment (No. 3) Regulations 2001
These Regulations amend the National Health Service (Travelling Expenses and Remission of Charges) Regulations 1988 (“the principal Regulations”) to provide that the same rules which govern payment of travelling expenses to hospitals in England will apply to travelling expenses to a port in Great Britain for a person who travels to a country outside the United Kingdom to receive NHS services (regulation 3). The Regulations also provide that all NHS patients receiving services outside the United Kingdom will be entitled to payment of all travel expenses (including in some cases, those of a companion) from a port in Great Britain to the place where they are to receive those services (regulation 4). Regulations 6–9 make consequential amendments providing for claims for payment under the new provisions.