EU HEALTH CARD
March 1st, 2004
BY KEITH NUTHALLBRITISH nurses admitting foreign patients into hospitals and clinics will have to watch out for a new European Union (EU) health insurance card that will be introduced from June, which will grant EU citizens an automatic right to care on the National Health Service. At present, visiting tourists, students, lorry drivers and job seekers from other EU Member States have been armed with various forms (E111, E128, E110 and E119, for instance), and have had to contact social security offices in advance before asking for non-emergency healthcare. But ...
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