Claim: Health tourism costs 0.3% of NHS spending.
Fact-check: Health tourism: what's the cost? - Full Fact
Verdict: the government's estimate of how much "deliberate health tourism" and those taking advantage of free nhs services cost the nhs every year was around 0.3% of nhs spending allocated to specific services in 2012/13. it's still roughly around 0.3% of total health spending.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Claire Milne
Date published: 2016-12-21T00:00:00