If your permanent home is Tenerife and you are registered with the Spanish Social Security System, you should remember if you return for visits to the UK (or if you visit another European country other than Spain)you may not automatically be able to obtain health cover there.

Are you visiting the United Kingdom? Have you been living outside the UK for more than 3 months? Did you know that you may have to pay for hospital treatment whilst in the UK? Hospital treatment is free to people who ordinarily live in the United Kingdom . If you do not normally live here then you may be required to pay for any treatment you might need. This is regardless of whether you are a British citizen or have lived or worked in the UK in the past.

Under the current Regulations, anyone who spends more than 3 months living outside the UK is no longer automatically entitled to free NHS hospital treatment in England. This includes people in receipt of UK state retirement pensions.

http://www.dh.gov.uk/PolicyAndGuidan...Visitors/fs/en

You should make sure you have applied for a European Health Card from the Spanish authorities before returning to the UK as a visitor - this if free and valid for one year from the date of issue. For those in the south of the island you can go to Granadilla.

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Great info


secondly do you have anything to do with the One Stop Furniture Shop

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GM thanks very much indeed.

Presumably members can ask you if they need help for all these sorts of registrations, whether Social Security, medical, European Health Card etc.?

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Suppose you are visiting family in the UK and you are taken ill. What happens if you give their UK address, and claim you live there? Or that you have just moved back 10 minutes earlier and are now residing there. How would they know otherwise?

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Thanks Janet - sure anyone can contact for more info

second point: I can only imagine that the Uk would want you to prove you lived there: ie electoral roll, own/rent house, have utility bill in your name.
But to be truthfull Ive been on the lump of rock so long I know more about Spanish regs than UK ones. I may email them and ask, If I get a reply I'll post it here

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There must be a number of retired parents who actually live with their children and thus have no utility bill in their name, nor be on the electoral roll. And would they check?

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