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Medical tourism : Press articles
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Medical tourism has attracted a great deal of attention in the UK press. If you are considering going abroad for surgery or treatment then you may find these articles on medical tourism of interest.
Several of them contain "real life" stories of people who have chosen to travel abroad for services such as orthopaedic surgery, cosmetic surgery, dentistry and infertility treatment.
| Daily Telegraph | 11 January 2008 | |
| 'I flew to Hungary to have my teeth fixed.' | Mail on Sunday | 13 January 2008 |
| Patients cutting costs by going abroad | Independent | 11 January 2008 |
| Sunday Telegraph | 25 November 2007 | |
| 'Too fat' woman gets op overseas | BBC | 19 November 2007 |
| Daily Telegraph | 5 November 2007 | |
| Sunday Telegraph | 3 November 2007 | |
| Record numbers go abroad for health treatment with 70,000 escaping NHS | Daily Mail | 29 October 2007 |
| 70,000 Brits have ops overseas | The Sun | 29 October 2007 |
Sunday Telegraph | 29 October 2007 | |
Sunday Telegraph | 29 October 2007 | |
Sunday Telegraph | 29 October 2007 | |
Sunday Telegraph | 29 October 2007 | |
| Daily Telegraph | 22 October 2007 | |
| Long distance surgery is a snip | The Tiimes | 13 October 2007 |
| Medical tourism set to change US health care | NewsReleaseWire.com | 30 September 2007 |
| Packing dental treatment with tourism | The Hindu Business | 24 September 2007 |
| Go abroad for medical care | Miami Herald | 24 September 2007 |
| Patients prefer Treatment Abroad | Gulf News | 24 September 2007 |
The Observer | 23 September 2007 | |
Mail on Sunday | 26 August 2007 | |
Sunday Times | 26 August 2007 | |
BBC | 30 July 07 | |
Financial Times | 22 June 2007 | |
Sunday Times | 27 May 2007 | |
The Independent | 14 May 2007 | |
The Guardian | 18 April 2007 | |
BBC News | 18 April 2007 | |
Daily Mirror | 18 April 2007 | |
Daily Telegraph | 18 April 2007 | |
The Daily Mail | 17 April 2007 | |
The Daily Mail | 14 April 2007 | |
The FT | 14 April 2007 | |
The Guardian | 4 March 2007 | |
| The Scotsman | 14 Jan 2007 | |
| BBC News | 12 December 2006 | |
| Have sickness, must travel | Sunday Times | 3 December 2006 |
| The Guardian | 24 October 2006 | |
| The international health service: plan to give British patients the right to treatment abroad | The Independent | 7 September 2006 |
| Sunday Times | 6 August 2006 | |
| Patients could be reimbursed for surgery abroad | The Guardian | 16 May 2006 |
| Delayed NHS patients can have operations abroad, court rules | The Times | 16 May 2006 |
| NHS may have to pay for surgery abroad | Daily Telegraph | 16 May 2006 |
| NHS patients can reclaim private costs | Daily Mail | 16 May 2006 |
| Postcards from the knife edge | Daily Telegraph | 6 May 2006 |
| The international health service: is medical tourism ethical? | The Independent | 2 May 2006 |
| Have teeth, will travel | The Times | 20 March 2006 |
| Health tourists sign up for sun, sea and surgery | The Independent | 26 February 2006 |
| New rush to foreign hospitals | Sunday Times | 19 February 2006 |
The Independent | 11 September 2005 | |
Daily Telegraph | 27 August 2005 | |
Sunday Herald | 17 July 2005 | |
Irwin Mitchell - Press Release | 27 June 2005 | |
Daily Mail | 26 May 2005 | |
Daily Mail | 14 May 2005 | |
Healthcare Management (India) | 15 March 2005 | |
Guardian | 1 February 2005 |
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