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Not been reading posts or posting much lately so I don’t know if this has been discussed recently.
Went to doctors today and told him that I was thinking of spending more time abroad in the next year.
He warned me that if I spent more than 6 months in any calendar year away I would lose eligibility for free treatment and would be billed as a private patient.
He said that scanned passports would record time away/in the UK.
He did say that it was 6 months in any calendar year - does that mean it’s OK if you leave in July and return June the next year? If so most ‘snowbirds’ would be OK anyway but not those who took ‘holidays’ in the year that add up to more than 6 months.