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The Medical Tourism Report: UK
Operations Worldwide Ltd. (YourSurgeryAbroad), Sep 2009, Pages: 56
The Medical Tourism Report: UK was conducted by YourSurgeryAbroad in June 2009 in association with the International Medical Travel Association, and with a sample size of 7,000 is able to provide valuable exploration of the medical tourism sector. The survey, the first and largest of its kind, aimed to represent and understand both the current and potential medical tourism markets. The results of which detail a number of issues that hold significance for international healthcare providers and medical tourism enthusiasts, such as current and potential behaviours, motivations, influencing factors on destination and provider selection, as well as the impact of the Global Financial Crisis on medical tourism.
There are five issues specifically that YourSurgeryAbroad feel are of considerable importance:
- Only a small percentage of most recent surgery abroad was cosmetic, contradicting a commonly held viewpoint that healthcare abroad is primarily for cosmetic and plastic surgery.
- Previous research indicates that women are more frequently users of medical tourism than males, however the current results indicate that males have overtaken as not only the most common users, but also having repeated medical travels.
- Most patients go abroad for procedures to beat NHS waiting times. Potential patients are also more concerned with being treated sooner than saving money.
- The most common fear with surgery abroad is the medical standards in destination countries, highlighting a need to publish more information about international accreditation and healthcare standards abroad.
- Medical tourism is a growing industry and appears to be flourishing in the Global Financial Crisis, with a number of those surveyed being more likely to go abroad for an expensive medical treatment.
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