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Global healthcare is facing a revolution, the reasons why patients travel vary but the major factors are unacceptable delays in their home country, Hospital Acquired infections and the high cost of treatment in private practise.

Medical and Surgical tourism is a fact of modern life and offers the opportunity to combine a vacation with every type of treatment specialty including elective and cosmetic surgery as well as general dental treatment. Undoubtedly this trend that has exploded since the turn of the century has now firmly established itself as a global multi billion dollar industry.
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Special TreatmentsA continuation of existing trends could see the total number of UK medical tourists in 2009-10 reaching 250,000. These are all privately paying patients, as the trend in the United Kingdom is towards more and more people prepared to pay for private care. Total British spend worldwide on trend for this year 2009-2010 is US$1,500 million. The amount spend by British medical tourists in Poland alone in 2008 was US$40 million(NewsWeek). Patients travel as far as India.

The Specialist treatment for which the British travel include:

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