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by SEMW 4659 days ago
Full details of who's covered: http://www.adviceguide.org.uk/england/healthcare_e/healthcar...

TLDR: all ordinary UK residents, non-ordinary-residents who've been living legally in the UK for >12 months, EU citizens with EHIC cards, and various other sets of people.

Treatment at A&E (accident & emergency), family planning & HIV tests, and for certain communicable diseases is always free no matter who you are, for practical reasons (no time to ask who you are in A&E before they treat you, no requirement to ask who you are for family planning & HIV tests for confidentiality reasons, and for communicable diseases you want to minimise their spreading).