Who has paid for Yulia Skripals treatment?

Yes it is indeed the best revenge!!

Those doctors were amazing. They had no training for this and their professionalism saved lives that someone meant to kill. They worked as a team with advice from Porton Down all the while not knowing if they could also be poisoned.
It was the best revenge on whoever placed that poison. Two people still alive when they only had a small chance of survival.
I hope it is paid from our taxes. This is our NHS at it's best and long may it last.

Yes this was a crime, I don't care if we pay. I wish them well. But regarding other people getting treated for illnesses I think I read somewhere that the UK is not good at recouping payment, and they should be. its money we need. i also think we should never refuse to treat people. Life is tooimportant.

Loss of earnings for a business are often covered in their business insurance Jane. Of course as with any claim the the next year's premium is sure to rise but it is possible in many circumstances that are beyond the business' control to re coup any losses.

Oh dear the Putin idea was a joke. Fell a bit flat. Some seem very serious just now.

How are the businesses closed due to this contamination incident to be recompensed for their losses?

So if a british person in Russia is ill do they send the bill to Mrs May? I ask this because it hadn't occured to me that the PM or President of a country was responsible for clawing back an individuals expenses.

Just to say, even if you have the EU healthcare card, it's well worth having additional insurance.

A sister in law broke a hip while they were in France, shortly before they were due to leave. My brother had to return home soon anyway, since there were several animals that needed looking after and their house sitter could not stay longer.

Their own insurance not only provided for flying her home once she had sufficiently recovered from the op,- he had been prepared for a long drive each way to fetch her - but also provided suitable transport from their local airport to the door. As he said, it was a fantastic return for a relatively small outlay.,

I agree with Loopyloo and Deedaa. Horrific though the case was, those doctors treating them were given a unique experience and probably discovered much about nerve agents and their affects. Like others, I am very glad the Skripals were treated successfully by the NHS. The cost May be recovered, who knows, but for me the main thing is they survived their horrific ordeal thanks to the expertise of medical staff and specialist care here.

Apart from the humanity of treating the Skripals, it could have been downright dangerous to other people not to treat them. They could have accidentally contaminated many other people.

There are quite a number of people from overseas who have been victims of terrorist attacks etc in this country and the thought of them being charged for treatment by the NHS is, as M0nica says, abhorrent.

I think in this case they have learnt a tremendous amount about this type of poisoning which may be very useful in the future and well worth what ever it has cost.

How contemptible we would be if we charged victims of crime for their hospital treatment, just because they were visitors and not resident in the UK.

Think of all the tourists injured in terrorist attacks, victims of street crime, those injured in car accidents. While the specific accident Yulia Skripal suffered was unique. She is just one of many visitors to this country who suffer accident or injury while here and that we should charge any of them, still less single out one individual, is abhorrent.

I was about to say what loopyloo has already said.

I don't grudge the poor Skripals a penny. I'm just cross at the perpetrators of this hellish crime.

The other thing is I expect the doctors were very interested in treating something as unusual as that and it was good for research purposes.

Yes me too. This was a emergency. I don't care whether they recoup the cost or not. People were very ill. That is all I need to know.
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I am proud theat we offer emergency treatment without question.

We do not have a reciprocal arrangement with Russia although one was in place until about two years ago.

We do have reciprocal arrangments with countries outside the EEA and it is well worth finding out which countries have these arrangements with the UK and what it entails before travelling overseas.
However, the treatment would only be in an emergency and it is always sensible to take out travel insurance anyway.
www.nhs.uk/NHSEngland/Healthcareabroad/countryguide/NonEEAcountries/Pages/Non-EEAcountries.aspx

That being said, I hope that Yulia is fully recovered from her ordeal and, as this was an extreme emergency, I am quite happy for her treatment to have been funded by the NHS - ie by us, the taxpayer.

Mr Skripal is resident here and has been for some years. He has been earning a living through consultancy work and also probably receives an income from CIA/M15 so he will be a British taxpayer and is entitled to NHS treatment.

His daughter was injured in a murder attempt and that counts as an emergency and would also have been treated on the NHS.

DH and DGD have both been treated in A&E in France. We were asked no questions about health insurance. Both had EHIC cards. In each case we received a bill a few months later for the costs of treatment not covered by the card; 8 euros for DH, 20 euros for DGD.

The Skripals were poisoned so a crime was committed. That's a bit different from just falling ill and, given the expat and exspy status of her father, I suspect that the question of travel health insurance hasn't come up.

We are not French and are asked the question - the ambulance men ask people with you if you are being taken away and they hand your card etc in at the hospital.
Heart attacks etc are not charged for here either and if you have a life long illness you don’t pay for most things.

There have been lots of comments in the past from people who consider immigrants and their families are a drain on the NHS, and I don't think this is so different.
She lives in Russia-she was just visiting.
And "It's all done in the best possible taste!" (crosses legs)

If she has been employed here she would have paid tax and been entitled to nhs treatment.

If no employment and not a uk citizen she would be charged for the treatment.

Either way this thread is in extremely poor taste this woman has just gone through a horrendous ordeal and more than likely been permanently damaged physically

She's Russian he holds Russian and British citizenship.