The government’s response summarises what respondents told us about the proposals and sets out what the government now intends to do to extend charging rules to wider areas of NHS, so that visitors and migrants make more of a contribution for the care that they access This includes:

requiring NHS providers to obtain charges upfront and in full before a chargeable overseas visitor can access non-urgent treatment

bringing out of hospital secondary care services and NHS-funded services provided by non-NHS organisations, within the services that chargeable overseas visitors will have to pay for

removing assisted reproduction services from those that a person who has paid the immigration health surcharge can access without charge

Ipsos MORI was also commissioned to undertake a formative evaluation of the Overseas Visitor and Migrant NHS Cost Recovery Programme.