To be eligible to claim a reimbursement of the immigration health surcharge (IHS), you must either:
- be employed or engaged by a recogised health or care provider
- be employed, engaged by, or registered with an appropriate health or social care services regulator
- be employed by an organisation commissioned or engaged by the NHS to provide services in an NHS setting
Recognised health or care providers
The recognised health or care providers are:
- an NHS Foundation Trust in England
- an NHS Trust in England
- the Care Quality Commission
- Health Education England
- Health Research Authority
- Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority
- Human Tissue Authority
- Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
- National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
- NHS Blood and Transplant
- NHS Business Services Authority
- NHS Digital (the Health and Social Care Information Centre)
- NHS England (the NHS Commissioning Board)
- NHS Improvement (Monitor and the NHS Trust Development Authority)
- NHS Resolution (the NHS Litigation Authority)
- Public Health England
- a Local Authority
- a Clinical Commissioining Group
- a local Health Board in Wales
- Health Education and Improvement Wales
- Public Health Wales
- The Welsh Ambulance Service
- Velindre NHS Trust
- a Health Board or Special Health Board constituted under section 2 of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978
- Common Services Agency for the Scottish Health Service (established under Section 10 of that Act)
- Social Care and Social Work Improvement Scotland (known as the Care Inspectorate) established under Section 44 of the Public Services (reform) (Scotland) Act 210
- Scottish Social Services Council established under section 43 of the Regulation of Care (Scotland) Act 2001
- a Health and Social Care Trust in Northern Ireland
- Northern Ireland Blood Transfusion Service
- Northern Ireland Guardian Ad Litem Agency
- Northern Ireland Medical and Dental Training Agency
- Northern Ireland Practice and Education Committee
- Northern Ireland Social care Council
- Patient and Client Council
- Regional Agency for Public health and Social Well-Being (the Public Health Agency)
- Regional Business Services Organisation
- Regional Health and Social Care Board or Regulation and Quality Improvement Authority
Appropriate health or social care services regulators
The appropriate health or social care services regulators are:
- General Chiropractic Council
- General Dental Council
- General Medical Council
- General Optical Council
- General Osteopathic Council
- General Pharmaceutical Council
- Health and Care Professions Council
- Northern Ireland Social Care Council
- Nursing and Midwifery Council
- Pharmaceutical Society of Northern Ireland
- Scottish Social Services Council (under the Regulation of Care (Scotland) Act 2001)
- Social Care Wales
Organisations commissioned or engaged by the NHS to provide services in an NHS setting
You must be employed by an organisation providing adult social care services.
Adult social care services are any services which an England local authority must or may provide or arrange to be provided under:
- section 117 of the Mental Health Act 1983 (Aftercare)
- part 1 of the Care Act 2014 (Care and Support)