Finances of Manx Reciprocal Health Care Agreement

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Dear Mr Williams

Thank you for your email which we received on 26 November, asking for an
internal review of our handling of your recent Freedom of Information (FOI)
request, our ref: DE00000455595.

We expect to be able to complete this review within 20 working days, but
will in any event write to you again as soon as it is completed.

Yours sincerely

Colin McDonald
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Dear Mr Williams

Thank you for your email of 26 November requesting an internal review of
our response to your Freedom of Information (FOI) request, our reference
DE00000455595.

Chronology

You wrote to us on 30 October:

Dear Sir or Madam,

Please supply details of the Reciprocal Health Care Agreement currently in
place with the Isle of Man Government, including details of the sum total
of any payments made to or received from the Isle of Man Government in each
of the last three financial years (ending April 2009).

Thank you.

Yours faithfully,

Mr Williams

We replied on 23 November:

To : [FOI #22215 email]

CC :

Subject : Fw: Freedom of Information request - Finances of Manx Reciprocal
Health Care Agreement

To: [FOI #22215 email]

Our ref: DE00000455595

23 November 2009

Dear Mr Williams,

Thank you for your email of 30 October to the Department of Health
requesting, under the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act, details about the
reciprocal healthcare agreement ( HCA ) currently in place with the Isle of
Man government, including details of the sum total of any payments made to
or received from the Isle of Man government in each of the last three
financial years (ending in April 2009). Your request has been passed to me
for reply.

The Department does hold information relevant to your request.

As you may be aware, section 21 of the FOI Act allows public bodies to
redirect applicants where information is already available in the public
domain. The agreement to which you refer covers the cost of similar
medical treatment to that provided by the NHS, and further information
about this is available on the NHS website at the following link:
www.nhs.uk/healthcareabroad. You can access specific information about the
Isle of Man HCA by selecting ‘ Isle of Man ’ from the alphabetical list of
Non-EEA countries available here:
www.nhs.uk/NHSEngland/Healthcareabroad/P.... The
agreement with the Isle of Man will come to an end on 31 March 2010 .

UK residents are currently advised to take out private insurance in the
same way as they are when visiting any country in the world.

The UK receives no funding from the Isle of Man. However, details of
financial allocations made by the Department of Health to the Isle of Man
over the past three financial years are provided below, as requested.

Level of allocation

Year | Payments to Isle of Man as part of
| HCA
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