NHS sending patients abroad for treatment as health service on brink | UK | News
NHS sends an increasing number of patients abroad for treatment, which is defined as a “terrible indictment ın of the condition of health care. In overseas treatments in countries such as Germany, Poland and Lithuania are financed by NHS because waiting lists in the UK reached record levels.
It has been reported that the treatments abroad vary from routine operations to more complex cancer surgery, such as hip prostheses. NHS was an important part of Labour’s manifesto, reducing a “future -suitable health service and 40,000 additional appointments every week. Health secretary, NHS patients who go abroad for treatment of patients “unacceptable” said.
Wes Streeting told Telegram: “This government inherited a broken NHS, patients waited for a long time for treatment, many of them forced to be special and even to seek health abroad.
“This is unacceptable and we offer the necessary investment and reform to reverse NHS since the first day.
Uz We focused on surrendering for patients, so the treatment they needed is closer to the house when they needed. We made 3.6 million more appointments in less than a year, reduced the waiting list to almost a quarter million and identified extra 100,000 suspicious cancer patients.
“There is a long way to go, but we finally put NHS on the way to heal.”
The authority also added that the government’s 10 -year health plan will “launch NHS into the 21st century and allow people to see people in a modern health service on the British coast”.
According to the figures obtained by the telegraph within the scope of the Freedom of Information Law, the number of overseas treatments paid by NHS increased by 42% in two years.
NHS paid 99 treatment abroad in 2022-23, and rose to 112 in 2023-24 and to 141 in 2024-25.
Health service spent £ 4.32 million, sending 352 patients abroad for treatment and data from the NHS Business Service Authority, which makes payments.
The treatments are carried out as part of the post -Brexit health agreement that enables them to pay to another European country to treat patients with “excessive delay önemli who prevents equivalent treatment in NHS in NHS in a“ medically acceptable time period ”.
The article states that there is a sharp increase in NHS patients using the scheme, and those who need gynecology surgery and hip replacements are the highest for traveling abroad for treatment.
In the report, he added that treatment or surgery should be performed by a State Health Service Provider and that patients should finance their travel and accommodation.
Between 2022-23 and 2024-25, Poland (72), Germany (59), Italy (32) and Belgium (31) carried out the most procedure as part of the plan.
“This is a terrible indictment of NHS’s situation,“ This is a terrible indictment of NHS.
“Really worrying and worrying about the inequalities – most of us would not know this scheme, and many could not meet travel and hotels, so the majority of the population had to endure long wait.”
