Claim: The government will fall short of its ambition to recover £500 million a year from overseas patients next year.
Fact-check: How much can we charge people from overseas to use the NHS? - Full Fact
Verdict: the government has an ambition to recover £500 million a year by 2017/18 from overseas patients not eligible for free nhs treatment in england. but it has estimated that the nhs will actually charge about £346 million that year.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Claire Milne
Date published: 2017-02-06T00:00:00