NHS waiting lists are only getting longer, so it’s no wonder that more and more Brits are being lured abroad to have painful health problems sorted faster and at a fraction of the cost than going private here. In 2019, 248,000 UK citizens chose to go overseas for medical treatment, more than double the number who did in 2015*.
‘It’s often significantly cheaper to go abroad, sometimes a third of the price that you’d pay privately in the UK,’ says Dr Naveen Cavale, plastic and reconstructive surgeon at
