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.