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The Department of Health's regulations on charges for people working overseas allow treatment on the NHS if the individual concerned previously had at least 10 years' continuous residence in the UK and meets one of the following conditions:
- they have not been working abroad for more than five years and they have been taking home leave in the UK at least once in every two years.
- their job gives them a contractual right to home leave in the UK at least once in every two years, even though they have not done this.
- their job gives them a contractual right to the cost of their journey back to the UK at the end of their term of employment.
So, assuming your brother had been living in the UK before he moved to Hong Kong, he will still be covered for NHS treatment.
Content last reviewed: 01 January 2005
Page last modified: 16 March 2005
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