Despair over NHS waiting lists is driving people who could never afford private care in UK to countries like Lithuania
. “I was going up the stairs on my hands and knees. I couldn’t get to the shop. I had no quality of life,” she says.
The former health sector worker, from Glasgow, is one of a growing number of Britons going abroad for routine medical care. She hadand never had a desire to. But last week, a year after the first surgery, she returned to Lithuania to have the same procedure on her other knee. This time, she says the wait she faced on the NHS was three years.
William Grover paid just over £6,000 to have a hip replacement abroad. He was quoted £15,000 by a private hospital in the UK.The grandfather of eight, from Portsmouth, is two days post-surgery following a right hip replacement that cost €7,000 . The former construction worker decided to fly the two and a half hours from Luton to Lithuania to have the procedure at the Nordorthopaedics clinic after facing an“I always used the NHS. I never thought I would need to go private.
Nordclinic clinic in Lithuania. The country has a good reputation for healthcare and is relatively inexpensive and easy to reach.There is no reliable source of data on outbound UK medical tourism, but the Office for National Statistics has estimated that about 248,000 UK residents went abroad for medical treatment in 2019, compared with 120,000 in 2015.
Lithuania, whose total population is a third of the size of London’s, has become increasingly popular because it is easy to reach, relatively inexpensive, and has developed a good reputation among international patients.
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