Tourist treatment

Opportunities for clients to obtain medical treatment abroad are increasing. Recent NHS pilot schemes and the relaxation in regulations to allow UK patients to go abroad have heightened publicity. Clients paying for their own care clearly have the option to go abroad. But demand in practice is questionable and, for many insurers, so is the need to offer treatment overseas. That said, a Mori poll commissioned by the British Medical Association found 42% of patients would be willing to travel outside the UK for treatment. Some 26% said they would travel anywhere in the world and 15% that...