HEALTH SERVICES: FOREIGN NATIONALS
Sir Nicholas Soames: To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to ensure that every NHS trust employs an Overseas Visitor Manager.
Jane Ellison, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Public Health: The information on National Health Service trusts who employ or do not employ an Overseas Visitor Manager is not held centrally.
In its guidance to the NHS, the Department strongly recommends that relevant NHS bodies have a designated person/s to oversee the implementation of the Charging Regulations. This person may or may not hold the title of ‘Overseas Visitors Manager.’ However, NHS trusts are responsible for recruiting their own workforce and the decision as to whether to employ a designated Overseas Visitor Manager rests with them.