article_snippet: Hospitals’ failure to claw back the cost of treating Europeans is costing taxpayers millions of pounds a week, figures suggest.
article_snippet: But in the same period, NHS managed to collect only £50.3million from European countries to pay for the care of European countries citizens who needed treatment here.
article_snippet: Figures which emerged at the weekend show NHS is still chasing at least £62million of unpaid bills for foreigners’ care.
article_snippet: King’s College – is owed almost £18million from overseas patients.
article_snippet: One single patient at a different trust racked up an unpaid bill of more than £420,000.
article_snippet: Others owe more than £100,000 for treatments including dialysis, bone marrow transplant and chemotherapy, according to The Sunday Times.
article_snippet: Two years ago, cancer specialist Professor J Meirion Thomas warned many foreigners were travelling to Britain for expensive treatment and then leaving without paying.
article_snippet: Ukip health spokesman Louise Bours said: ‘It is clear from these figures that hospitals in Britain are way too lax in chasing up payment for health treatment for EU citizens.
article_snippet: Zimbabwe-born Caroline Nyadzayo’s unpaid bill is part of the £62million cost of ‘health tourism’ to Britain.
highlights_snippet: Hospitals still failing to claw back the cost of treating Europeans on NHS .
  
highlights_snippet: But in return it only receives £1 from foreigners who get NHS treatment .
  