Nope, I'm fed up with ex-pats screaming for HMG help the minute something goes tits up in their tropical retirement idyl/tax haven/ Slightly more sympathy for holidymakers, but not to the extent of replacing the local Police that we see in Portugal at the moment.
2nd Aug 2014 19:35
Holidaymakers usually from the UK trip themselves up by relying on EHIC to deal with everything, which it doesn't. It only covers you for care at the level a local person would enjoy, no flight home in an air ambulance or the use of a stretcher on a civil commercial flight. A potential intensive care transfer from such as Tenerife or Greece will cost at least £22,000. Your medical costs are your own responsibility not HMGs unless you are entitled by employment or as in the case of things like haemorrhagic fever the RAF will bring you home and I suspect bill the insurance company in the case of non entitled.