A responsibility to care

Despite the failings of the NHS, anyone working in the UK will take the provision of family doctor appointments, dental work and emergency hospital treatment almost for granted. But once they move, or are sent abroad by their company, they can find that even the simplest health problems become nightmares. In a climate of political instability on a global scale, the expat workforce remains undeterred. Figures from the UK's Office of National Statistics show that over 91,000 Britons left the UK in 2002, adding to the estimated 1.1 million working expats that Axa PPP Healthcare has identified...