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Schedule 1 Diseases for which no charge is to be made for treatment

England and Wales

  • Acute encephalitis

  • Acute poliomyelitis

  • Anthrax

  • Botulism

  • Brucellosis

  • Cholera

  • Diphtheria

  • Enteric fever (typhoid and paratyphoid fever)

  • Food poisoning

  • Haemolytic uraemic syndrome (HUS)

  • F1Hantavirus disease, including hantavirus pulmonary or cardiopulmonary syndrome and haemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome

  • Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)

  • Infectious bloody diarrhoea

  • Invasive group A streptococcal disease and scarlet fever

  • Invasive meningococcal disease (meningococcal meningitis, meningococcal septicaemia and other forms of invasive disease)

  • Legionnaires' disease

  • Leprosy

  • Leptospirosis

  • Malaria

  • Measles

  • F2Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS)

  • F3Monkeypox

  • Mumps

  • Pandemic influenza (defined as the “Pandemic Phase”) or influenza that might become pandemic (defined as the “Alert Phase”) as defined by WHO in the World Health Organisation's (“WHO”) Pandemic Influenza Risk Management Interim GuidanceM1

  • Plague

  • Rabies

  • Rubella

  • Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)

  • F4Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)

  • Smallpox

  • Tetanus

  • Tuberculosis

  • Typhus

  • Viral haemorrhagic fever

  • Viral hepatitis

  • Whooping cough

  • F5...

  • Yellow fever

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Words in Sch. 1 inserted (18.5.2026 at 6.00 p.m.) by The National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) (Amendment) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/536), regs. 1(1), 2(3)

F2

Words in Sch. 1 inserted (1.2.2016) by The National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) (Amendment) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/2025), regs. 1(1), 7

F3

Word in Sch. 1 inserted (8.6.2022) by The National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/614), regs. 1(1), 2(3)

F4

Words in Sch. 1 inserted (14.2.2022) by The National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/19), regs. 1(2), 2(4)

F5

Words in Sch. 1 omitted (14.2.2022) by virtue of The National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/19), regs. 1(2), 2(4)

Marginal citations

M1

The Guidance may be obtained from the World Health Organisation website: http://www.who.int/influenza/preparedness/pandemic/influenza_risk_management/en/ or from the Department of Health, Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Team, Room 101 Richmond House, 79 Whitehall, London SW1A 2NS.