Do you lose your NHS benefits when you leave the country(UK) for 3 months or more?

March 11th, 2010 Posted in portal.juzhang.com | edit

If you need to stay in another country for more than 3 months, do you lose your NHS benefits? What can you do to regain it?
Thanks

No I don't think so.
I haven't lived in the UK for years but I still have my NHS card. I doubt 3 months will be a problem.

There is no discrimination when a patient resident in one country of the United Kingdom requires treatment in another. The consequent financial matters and paperwork of such inter-working are dealt with between the organisations involved and there is generally no personal involvement by the patient comparable to that which might occur when a resident of one European Union member country receives treatment in another.

I've lived outside of the UK for over 20 years and my doctor didn't take me of his patients' list even though I told him I was leaving.

I think he left me on because they get paid according to how many patients they have.

Three months, you say? They won't even know you've been away!

(Where are you going? (I'm nosey!))

when you come back into the uk, everything is as it was, docs etc. i lived in spain for 3 years, came back and just signed on at a doctors, no questions asked, just because you leave the country for a while doesnt make you not british

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Do you lose your NHS benefits when you leave the country(UK) for 3 months or more?

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