There are no mandatory health tests for sex workers

The UK operates a National Health Service providing free of charge public health care for all UK citizens. All UK citizens and most EU citizens are therefore able to access free public health care. Everyone in the UK is entitled to access free of charge Sexual Health and Accident & Emergency services in the UK, however, referral for further treatment is not free of charge. All NHS Boards now have ‘overseas officers’, whose responsibility it is to follow up on all patients who have received NHS care (with the exception of Sexual Health and Accident & Emergency care) and seek to obtain payment.

The majority of needle exchanges operate anonymously and can be accessed by any migrant or national drug user - with or without insurance, documented or undocumented; if the needle exchange is operated by the NHS then a migrant would be entitled to an interpreter when using the service. Only migrant drug-using sex workers with recourse to public funds would be entitled to access NHS drug treatment services, which often have waiting lists, for those without recourse to public funds private drug treatment programmes are available.