Health Treatment Abroad

[ro2124]

Anyone Know anything about NHS Treatment abroad?
With the long waiting lists in UK for non urgent operations, I have heard that some people have gone abroad to have their operations done and were then reimbursed by the NHS.
Anyone know if this is correct?

[gingejbee]

Is this the sort of thing that interests you?.....

https://www.nhs.uk/NHSEngland/Healthcareabroad/plannedtreatment/Pages/Compareoptions.aspx

[ummmm]

I used to do some work for a company which sent patients abroad for joint replacements and they invoiced the NHS, the patient didn't have to pay.

[woofgang]

I don't think you can jump the waiting list by doing this. Certain NHS organisations outsource some procedures to keep within their waiting list times.