As the recent trend towards health tourism becomes ever more popular International Investment looks at whether getting treatment abroad will become par for the course
As overseas travel becomes cheaper and easier, so too does the opportunity for so-called health tourism. This does not include emergency treatment abroad, but is when individuals actively opt and arrange to go abroad to have their hip replaced or have a heart bypass operation. The NHS itself gave health tourism something of a boost in publicity a few years ago when a series of pilot schemes to send NHS patients abroad for treatment found "patients' reactions to be very positive." The Department of Health (DoH) claims treating patients in the European Economic Union is comparable with patie...
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