NHS healthcare

[KeithD]

How many times do they check your past when you go now???

If you want to pay NI yourself via DD then you can, that way you are also putting towards your pension.

[darren-b]

Is this what you are thinking of?

http://www.nhs.uk/NHSEngland/Healthc...ingabroad.aspx

Won't help you if you are living in the Philippines.

But NI contributions and NHS are not linked anyway. If you move permanently back to the UK you are legally entitled to NHS services straightaway anyway.