SA29. Your social security insurance, benefits and healthcare rights in the European Economic Area
Medical services
40. UK health services
If you come to the UK to work, or to look for work, or to live here without working, you and the members of your family who are with you, will be able to have healthcare under the National Health Service. You can find out more from the Primary Care Trust in the area where you come to live. If you are in Scotland, get in touch with the Health Board. You can get their address from your local UK post office or the business numbers section of the phone book.
If you are self-employed or working for an employer and your family is in another EEA country, they will be able to use the healthcare services in that country and may need forms E109. But you must be paying UK National Insurance contributions. Ask HM Revenue and Customs for these forms.
If you have forms E109 you can send them to your family and tell them to give the forms to the authorities who run the sickness insurance scheme there. When you ask for forms E109, tell HM Revenue and Customs:
- your full name;
- your maiden name (if applicable);
- your address in the UK;
- your date of birth;
- your UK National Insurance number;
- your nationality;
- the date when your work began and, if it is work that is only for a certain time of the year, the date you expect your work to end; and
- for each member of your family who depends on you:
- their full name
- their maiden name (if applicable)
- their address in the other EEA country
- their date of birth.