Are infection rates driving patients abroad?
Medical tourists who travel abroad for treatment, don't just do it to save money. In our soon to be published "Medical Tourism Survey", 56%...
Medical travel agencies and facilitators – survival of the fittest?
The advent of the pandemic and its impact on travel has hit businesses involved in travel and tourism more than any other sector. In...
When cosmetic surgery abroad goes wrong… Who pays?
What happens when cosmetic surgery from overseas goes wrong.
Today’s “You and Yours” programme on BBC Radio 4 highlighted the continuing problem of handling complications...
Critics draw attention to financial relationships between referrers and hospitals
In the healthcare sector, critics are drawing attention to the financial relationships that exist between hospitals and doctors and referrers.
In the healthcare sector, critics...
Sorting out fact from fiction
One of the greatest challenges facing anyone working in the medical tourism sector is working out what is fact and what is fiction. It...
With PIP implants still grabbing headlines what do people do if they aren’t satisfied?
The PIP breast implant controversy continues to grab the headlines across Europe. Concerns have been raised by women who have had their breast implants...
Five medical tourism mistakes that will be repeated in 2015
It’s now more than a decade since we established Treatment Abroad and more than 8 years since IMTJ was established. That’s a long time...
Do the numbers of medical tourism make sense?
According to a new report on medical tourism from McKinsey "Between 60,000 and 85,000 people annually travel abroad for inpatient hospital care, a number......
Does the NHS offering choice of hospitals provide lessons for medical tourism
In the UK, "patient choice" is one of the driving forces in healthcare. Since April 2008, patient choice has been extended in the UK....
We have just published an independent survey of medical tourism prices
We have just published the first independent survey of medical tourism prices - Treatment Abroad PriceWatch 2006.
Comparing prices to the cost of private treatment...
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