With the advent of "Choose and book" NHS patients now are offered a choice of providers at least four after your GP decided that a shipment is required. These providers may be NHS trusts, trusts of Foundation, treatment centres or hospitals. Will, at some point, this choice extended to include hospitals in Europe and farther?.
Health services of the United Kingdom are suffering with lack of qualified nursing and medical staff, and this is restricting NHS effectiveness in reducing waiting lists. One of the solutions has been the personal import from other countries, but the NHS patients will turn to export as a workaround? A pilot project managed the individual and St. Thomas Hospital already explored this approach. The project offered mainly elderly patients who were on the waiting list for more than 6 months, the orthopedic surgery option in Belgium. In total, approximately 500 patients UK traveled to the five Belgian hospitals selected for orthopedic surgery between June 2003 and April 2005. Patients were extremely positive about their experience and the quality of care they received.
Given the choice of an operation on a UK hospital in three or four months, or a week that comes in a cutting-edge hospital in Belgium, India or Poland, how many patients UK could choose the last?
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