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Overseas Visitors - Shortened Guidance

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FOOTNOTES

1. This is without prejudice to the right of a GP to refuse any application to join the practice as a patient or temporary resident in terms of paragraph 17 of Schedule 5 to the NHS (General Medical Services Contracts)(Scotland) Regulations 2004

2. Note that any student, posted worker, temporary resident or person on holiday with an European Health Insurance Card ( EHIC) issued in another EEA country or Switzerland is entitled to all necessary treatment. (See EHIC section at paragraph 15). However, anyone who is coming to take up permanent or long term residence may have been required to give up his or her EHIC before leaving home and must provide other forms of proof.

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