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Package holiday surgery to beat NHS queue
A holiday firm is offering 'sun and surgery' package deals to India for patients tired of waiting for the NHS.
The breaks will include flights, operations, accommodation in a private hospital and even recuperation time on the beach.
Thomas Cook, which expects to be selling the holidays this summer, is using Britain to test the market. It is confident many Britons would rather pay to have an operation in a Third World country than wait for a hospital bed at home.
Standards in many Indian private hospitals are often higher than in many British NHS wards. The cost is also much cheaper than going private in Britain.
The company described the package deals as "very affordable". They are likely to range from around £1,500 to £8,000.
"What we want to offer are healthcare holidays where people can go and have their operations in hospitals recommended to them in our brochures,' said Ameeta Munshi, Thomas Cook's spokesman in India.
"We are tying up with selected hospitals which means people can have more confidence in them, although we expect a lot of patients will want to do their own research.
"This is going to be affordable and for anyone who is in pain and can't be treated on the NHS, the fact that healthcare is so much cheaper here anyway means the whole deal is going to be very attractive.
'Increasing number of Britons having surgery overseas'
"Our lawyers and insurance experts are looking over the final details but we would expect to launch the deals within the next two to three months."
The company is seizing on a trend which has seen an increasing number of Britons having surgery overseas.
Cheaper medical costs lured up to 150,000 international visitors to India last year, with around 400 from Britain.
That is a rise of 15 per cent in British patients in just 12 months.
The sun and surgery packages would include, for example, return flights, an operation at a Bombay hospital, and sightseeing at South Indian temples or recuperation on the beach at Goa.
At the more expensive end of the market, Indian doctors estimate that advanced heart surgery would cost an average of £6,000 in Bombay. But that compares to £30,000 in Britain.
There are comparable savings for other treatments such as joint replacement, neurosurgery and cancer therapies.
Long waits for UK patients
British patients often have to wait many months for vital operations on the NHS, despite the Government's targets to cut delays. The official target waiting time for a hip replacement is six months while a coronary heart bypass usually involves a three-month wait.
The reality is that many patients wait even longer as these targets do not apply until they have seen a specialist. That alone can take many months.
Medical tourism is expected to earn India up to £1billion a year by 2012 as foreigners flock to the country for treatment.
Private hospitals there treat patients as customers and are keen to encourage more overseas business. Patients are able to recuperate in private rooms. These are usually cleaned twice a day, in contrast to British hospitals where poor hygiene has been blamed for the spread of superbugs such as MRSA.
The rooms have cable television-showing English language programmes. Dieticians are on hand to prepare menu options.
The Apollo Hospitals Group is the largest healthcare chain in Asia. It has around 35 hospitals in India specialising in neurosurgery, cardiac and cancer treatment, IVF and paediatric care. Last year, Apollo's hospital in Delhi treated 64 British patients - a 12 per cent increase on the previous year.
A spokesman said: "It is a growing trend because NHS waiting times are getting very long. Now that people have discovered the personalised service and the quality of care we can offer, at a fraction of the cost, they realise it's probably worth travelling here."
A holiday firm is offering 'sun and surgery' package deals to India for patients tired of waiting for the NHS.
The breaks will include flights, operations, accommodation in a private hospital and even recuperation time on the beach.
Thomas Cook, which expects to be selling the holidays this summer, is using Britain to test the market. It is confident many Britons would rather pay to have an operation in a Third World country than wait for a hospital bed at home.
Standards in many Indian private hospitals are often higher than in many British NHS wards. The cost is also much cheaper than going private in Britain.
The company described the package deals as "very affordable". They are likely to range from around £1,500 to £8,000.
"What we want to offer are healthcare holidays where people can go and have their operations in hospitals recommended to them in our brochures,' said Ameeta Munshi, Thomas Cook's spokesman in India.
"We are tying up with selected hospitals which means people can have more confidence in them, although we expect a lot of patients will want to do their own research.
"This is going to be affordable and for anyone who is in pain and can't be treated on the NHS, the fact that healthcare is so much cheaper here anyway means the whole deal is going to be very attractive.
'Increasing number of Britons having surgery overseas'
"Our lawyers and insurance experts are looking over the final details but we would expect to launch the deals within the next two to three months."
The company is seizing on a trend which has seen an increasing number of Britons having surgery overseas.
Cheaper medical costs lured up to 150,000 international visitors to India last year, with around 400 from Britain.
That is a rise of 15 per cent in British patients in just 12 months.
The sun and surgery packages would include, for example, return flights, an operation at a Bombay hospital, and sightseeing at South Indian temples or recuperation on the beach at Goa.
At the more expensive end of the market, Indian doctors estimate that advanced heart surgery would cost an average of £6,000 in Bombay. But that compares to £30,000 in Britain.
There are comparable savings for other treatments such as joint replacement, neurosurgery and cancer therapies.
Long waits for UK patients
British patients often have to wait many months for vital operations on the NHS, despite the Government's targets to cut delays. The official target waiting time for a hip replacement is six months while a coronary heart bypass usually involves a three-month wait.
The reality is that many patients wait even longer as these targets do not apply until they have seen a specialist. That alone can take many months.
Medical tourism is expected to earn India up to £1billion a year by 2012 as foreigners flock to the country for treatment.
Private hospitals there treat patients as customers and are keen to encourage more overseas business. Patients are able to recuperate in private rooms. These are usually cleaned twice a day, in contrast to British hospitals where poor hygiene has been blamed for the spread of super bugs such as MRSA.
The rooms have cable television-showing English language programmes. Dietitians are on hand to prepare menu options.
The Apollo Hospitals Group is the largest healthcare chain in Asia. It has around 35 hospitals in India specialising in neurosurgery, cardiac and cancer treatment, IVF and paediatric care. Last year, Apollo's hospital in Delhi treated 64 British patients - a 12 per cent increase on the previous year.
A spokesman said: "It is a growing trend because NHS waiting times are getting very long. Now that people have discovered the personalised service and the quality of care we can offer, at a fraction of the cost, they realise it's probably worth travelling here."
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