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Petition update, 25 February 2008

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Under current legislation UK citizens who are unpaid charity workers for more than 5 years ARE NO LONGER ENTITLED TO FREE NHS HEALTH CARE until they return PERMANENTLY to the UK because access to the NHS is based on RESIDENCE only - not citizenship or National Insurance contributions;

-unless they work in a country with a health agreement with the UK (No countries in developing countries are included in this)

OVERSEAS CHARITY WORKERS FOR MORE THAN 5 YEARS are treated as visitors to the UK and MUST PAY FOR THEIR TREATMENT.

Access to the NHS is based solely on RESIDENCE.

Information can be found here:

http://www.dh.gov.uk/PolicyAndGuidance/International/OverseasVisitors/fs/en

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• Andrea J Chee
• John Crang
• Esme Neale
• Ruth Radley
• Andrew Betts-Brown
• Elizabeth Swarbrick
• martin john williams
• Cathy Priest
• Lyndall Bywater
• Grace Turner
• A.Mason
• Stephen Radley
• Caroline Moreiras
• Joanne Purle
• David Boniface
• Judith
• Julia Evans
• Simone Lamont
• Mary Carr
• Jennifer Beckwith
• Anna Bishop
• Mathew Phipps
• Rosalie Knowles
• Julian Whettam
• simon porter
• Mark Beckwith
• Douglas Wakeling
• Rebecca Sherlock
• David Wright
• Elizabeth Williamson
• Suzanne Webster
• Dr Sarah Hoskins
• rachel howseman
• Jennifer Smith
• Pauline Miller
• Bernard Palmer MRCP, FRCS
• Ruth Pavlovic
• Robert Hall
• Jennifer Smedley
• Daphne Hardman
• Dr JF Seigel
• Stephen Hardman
• Beverley Sutton
• Brenda Cole
• Jo Postles
• Martin Lee
• Fiona Morgan
• robert hicks
• Nathan Blackaby
• Stephen McGoldrick
• Vicky Calver
• Neil Cleveland
• Sally Hall
• Shelagh Horsman
• David Stoker
• Ruth Gardner
• Claire Harri
• Tim Bushell
• Adrian Anderson
• Joan Hadlow
• Sarah Hindle
• John Oldfield
• Anne Osborne
• Joseph Meering
• Phil Doust
• emily Bradbrook
• Joanne Duckles
• Rachel Green
• Jeremy Woodham
• Cat Morgan Locke
• Joseph Steinberg
• Richard Long
• Lyn Danino
• James Rogers
• Alister McLeod
• Carol Walker
• Jade Staiano
• Howard Staiano
• Cath Milner
• Jenny Rye
• Helen Harwood
• Paul Nicholson
• Marilyn Samways
• Marie-Louise Singodia
• Louise Page
• Nigel Freeman
• Geoff Shave
• Julie Anderson
• William Anderson
• Heather Grills
• RALPH MERCER
• Ken McConville
• Gareth Gamble
• Ronnie McCracken
• Claire Russell
• Joan Eeley
• Hitesh Dodhia
• Cheol Baek
• Kathryn Dray
• Julia Dungworth
• James Dungworth
• W J Paul Bailie
• Norman McAuley
• Nina McCrory
• colin burcombe
• Robert Boyd
• Brian Cruise
• John Richardson
• Mervyn Spence
• Lyn McCrea
• Graham Gordon william Montgomery
• Rosie Donnelly
• Alan Cross
• Alan Nixon
• Rosalind Mc Conville
• Andrew Messenger
• Jayanti Gohil
• j shaw
• Dr Sarah Smith
• Rev Mike Smith
• John Askin
• Anthony Whitton
• Sharon Boyall
• paul halliday
• Janice Hembrow
• Robert William Melville
• ben jones
• Alan McCormick
• Mark woodhouse
• Ian Wolstencroft
• Adrian England
• David Surgenor
• Ian Jackson
• Nathan Surgenor
• David Weir
• Abila
• Sharon Currie
• LAWRENCE WALLACE
• Mervyn McCormick
• Jacqueline biard
• John Wilks
• David Masters
• Robert Duff
• wendy linton
• Jonny McConkey
• David Clawson
• Richard Taulbut
• Andrew Pople
• J Buscombe
• Christine Barr
• Jeremy and Ann Franklin
• Phillip Massey
• Polly Andrews
• Alan Goody
• Andrew Final
• clifford Wright
• Alan Irwin
• Helen Stanford
• Mike Frith
• Richard Patterson
• Priscilla Henderson
• Alex Hill
• Sue Bullard
• Dr John D RHODES
• Peter Ricahrdson
• Philip Lock
• Dean Finnie
• Heather Leggett
• David Beck
• Mirrlees Dolley
• Julia Childerhouse
• Marc Thomas
• Gethin James
• Colin Lowther
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• Andy Howes
• David Gilchrist
• Nicholas Cooper
• Jonathan Ackroyd
• Ruth Laing
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• Emma Ash
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• Graham Jackson
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• Flora Davies
• Naomi Fletcher
• Richard Davies
• Andrea Hotchkin
• Mark Zacharias
• sarag suewing
• sue Wernham
• Mrs Anne Adams
• Peter Gee
• Mike Tomlinson
• Jonathan Mort
• Moira M Beagley
• Margaret Robertson
• Elizabeth Atkinson
• Francis Heyes, FCEM
• Emily Fenton
• Stephen Wetherell
• Simon Edgecombe
• John Davy
• Jean Glover
• Susan M. Kershaw
• Joanna Clifford
• Inke Milligan
• John Parfitt
• Gina Charsley
• Jeremy Brown
• Mrs.M.J.Kennedy
• Iris Rhodes
• Mike Poulton
• Rebecca Beese
• Diane McAuley
• david rolles
• Andy Taylor
• Jon Smith
• Richard Deighton
• claire rogers
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• Karen Wright
• Nick Hubbard
• Bob Farmer
• Susan Peterkin
• Jill Bradley
• Thomas Parfitt
• Ruth Kirkpatrick
• Sonia Donnan
• heather ferris
• Ivan Ferris
• Glenn Morton
• Susan Pegrum
• Christopher Ward
• Edwin Monger
• Graham Tarn
• Margaret Kelly
• H S McCullough
• Martin Smyth
• Helen Fitzpatrick-Nash
• C.A.Wright
• Tim Fenney
• Linda Fenney
• Helen Douglas
• Gareth Bedford Chesterton
• David Dunlop
• Adrian Lester
• Sarah Singleton
• Owen Lamb
• Eleanore Jane Durham
• Katherine Anderson
• Rachel Harvey
• Claire Askew
• Stephen Thomas
• Andrew Barclay-Watt
• Benjamin Downing
• Sue Fifield
• Doreen Beryl Rapley
• Michelle Briers
• Lisa Harrison
• Christopher Barker
• richard thomas
• Thelma Boase
• Patricia A Johnston
• Ruth E Walker
• Barbara Milner
• Esther Gamon
• Roisin Tohill
• Mark Soppitt
• Heather Hulland
• Keith Elmitt
• Sarah Prestwich
• Mark Welsh
• Bob Whitchurch
• Jim Hooper
• Malcolm Brill
• Robyn Cashman
• Clare Attrill
• Hannah Stirling
• Fiona Reynolds
• Rachel McGuinness
• Rosemary Jones
• Martin Brook
• Rhona Holliday
• Rita Huston
• Joseph Williams
• Christopher weir
• Chris Keiller
• Rory Allen
• Hugh Robert McInally-Adair
• Ivy Chikoti
• Peter Harrison
• Cherith Cameron
• matthew jones
• Henry Christopher Ford
• Jeanette Sheldrick
• Ben Johnston
• Tim Walker
• Edward Evans
• Mr. Jody Gabriel
• Richard McCord
• Gary Pizzey
• Betty Carthy
• sarah combe
• Andrea Burns
• Philip Forbes
• Iain Michael Jones
• Joanna Collison
• Gordon Bromley Harvey
• Elizabeth Self
• Joanna Sayer
• Tina Mitham
• emma
• Gaynor Reynolds
• Peter Griffiths
• Richard Harknett
• Christine Perkins
• Laura Welsh
• Samantha Greenwood
• Joel Hutchinson
• Klara Tough
• Sue Hemmings
• Mark Vogan
• john martin
• James Wilson
• Susan Chalmers
• Tony R. Gray
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• Jonathan Conkey
• Chin Lau
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• michael stewart
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• Daniel Castro
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• Julia Ming
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• Gill Reese
• Alan Turner
• Pedro Arias
• Alexandra Griffin
• Stephanie Carter
• Pam Annison
• Malcolm Read
• Lucy Brockie
• David Conkey
• David Prime
• Max Phillips
• Philip Birnie
• W McCorkell
• Stuart Wingar
• Lieselotte Penny
• Ann Ashton
• Rosemary Cottingham
• Robin Sloss
• Duncan Barker
• Zoe Holliday
• Werner Madlener
• Eva Atkins
• Lindsey Wilson
• Elizabeth Thomas
• Hilary Morrell
• Deborah Gregory
• Hazel frost
• stephen hilditch
• Martin Frost
• Phil Surgenor
• Roger David Worton
• Sally Cox
• neal murphy
• Clifford Newham
• Janet Tayler
• Julie Chester
• Estelle Robertson
• rex webb
• Richard Procter
• Kathryn Bowden
• glynn booth
• janette Savage
• Andrew Lynn
• Martin Clarkson Webb
• Ken Bone
• Kath Bone
• Rachel Gent
• Lisa Hamblin
• Faith Badger
• Celal Berker
• Francis Christie
• Elizabeth Jeggo
• Alison Casebow
• Rose Holley
• Alan J. Casebow
• Stephen Barlow
• Peter Crispin
• Russell Ashley-Smith
• Andrew Irons
• Mike Clarkson
• Julian Collins
• Emily Casebow
• Colin Grant
• Rev John Churcher
• Victoria Goodall
• Tim Munday
• Jonathan Morgan
• Krista Goodfellow
• MAUREEN MCCULLOUGH
• Colin Wolfe
• julie khan
• John Commons
• Barbara Mackey
• Geoffrey Low
• Ian Horne
• Marc Gallagher
• Leigh Neil
• Martin Petty
• Terry Ian Lockyer
• Hannah Drew
• Teresa Taylor
• Shiona Koudougou
• Rhea Snounou
• Jeanette Downer
• Peter Nightingale
• Hannah Reed
• Helen Douglas
• Vincent Cable MP
• Kirsten Hoben
• Ruth Graham
• John Peachey
• Hilary Hilton-Turvey
• Emma Rushworth
• Drew Patton
• John Senior
• Penelope Small
• Alison Anderson
• Jeff Smith
• Clare Sturdy
• peter williams
• Andrew Curry
• Fiona L. Cooper
• Nicholas John Addington
• Sarah Thomas
• Jane Harrison
• Edward Mitchell Coward
• Owen Beith
• Mark Senior
• Russell Bramhall
• Jill Rodriguez-Garcia
• Rebekah Jenkins
• C Hardy
• steven wilson
• Fiona Simpson
• Rowan Hampton
• Esther Fisher
• Julia Gough
• Laura Davies
• Rachel McKee
• Deborah Seddon
• Tessa Mann
• Richard Wardell
• Helen Dalzell
• Janet Baldock
• tessa brotherton
• Agreed; but: N.I. contributions don't actually pay for the N.H.S.
• Daniel Marcus Caldon
• Vicks Luckie
• Julia Pratten
• Never said that NI contibutions pay for the NHS!
• Fran Marshall
• David Hase
• Dick King
• S King
• James
• Abdullah Rhodes-Taylor
• Catherine Knight
• Annabel Jones
• lee chalmers
• Deolinda Eltringham
• Amy Louise Stevens
• Ann-Marie McManaman

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