| Malta as part of the British Empire was a
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| | nations, as they have built a reputation
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| strategic naval outpost in the
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| | upon good service and successful
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| Mediterranean Sea. For many years it
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| | operations.
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| provided hospital services to sailors in
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| | The National Health Service waiting lists
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| the Royal Navy and helped ensure that
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| | are still high for such routine
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| British supremacy in the Mediterranean
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| | operations as joint replacements and for
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| sphere of influence was upheld. Today
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| | those waiting, life can be painful and
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| this long tradition of British hospital
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| | mobility can be a constant struggle. The
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| patients in Malta is returning; as
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| | speed and efficiency of hospital services
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| medical tourism increasingly becomes an
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| | in Malta offer a valid alternative for
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| option for British citizens.
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| | those who simply cannot wait. As well as
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| Medical tourism is not a new idea; the
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| | joint replacement operations dental
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| ancient Greeks visited a territory called
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| | hospitals in Malta will also experience
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| Epidauria; fabled as the sanctuary of
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| | an influx of patients as the costs of
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| Askelepios, the healing god. The spa
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| | major dental work have reached an all
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| towns dotted all over Europe can also be
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| | time high in the UK.
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| seen as early examples of the medical
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| | With Malta being a short three hour
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| tourism industry. The industry has become
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| | flight from the UK hospital staff are
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| popular of late and in Malta, hospital
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| | sure to be busy. For some the lure of
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| executives are trying to cash in on the
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| | shorter waiting times will be great;
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| global increase in medical tourists.
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| | twinned with the chance to recuperate in
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| The reason medical tourism is
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| | the warm Mediterranean sun, patients will
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| experiencing a global increase is due to
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| | be enticed in large numbers. The
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| the lengthy waiting lists and expense of
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| | opportunity to holiday in Malta around
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| private medical care in developed
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| | operations will surely bolster the
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| industrial nations. Malta especially, is
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| | tourist industry in Malta during the off
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| targeting British nationals due to the
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| | season.
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| island's close ties with the UK. As
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| | As a result of this, Malta has announced
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| English is the second language in Malta,
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| | a twenty million pound investment to
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| hospital staffs are expected to provide
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| | further promote and develop hospital
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| exceptional medical care to visiting
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| | services on the island. This investment
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| patients.
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| | will see a rise in visitor numbers and
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| Operations that are expected to be
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| | with hospital equipment updated should
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| carried out were originally limited to
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| | also result in accreditation for medical
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| cosmetic surgery. Hospital executives in
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| | services by official foreign bodies. As
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| Malta are keen to dispel this image of
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| | Malta sits in fifth position in the World
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| purely cosmetic work in order to
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| | Health Organisation's list of health care
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| infiltrate the huge market of joint
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| | systems this search for official
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| replacements and dental surgery.
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| | accreditation should not pose any major
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| Currently the waiting time for a hip
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| | difficulties.
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| replacement in a UK hospital can be as
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| | International accreditation for Maltese
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| much as eighteen months; it is believed
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| | hospital services will bring increasing
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| in Malta this period is a matter of
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| | numbers of medical tourists to the
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| weeks.
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| | island. As waiting times and the cost of
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| Hospital staffs in Malta are trying to
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| | private medical care skyrocket in
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| carve out a niche in an already swollen
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| | industrialised nations this is surely an
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| market. India, Bangkok and Hong Kong are
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| | astute move by hospital executives. As
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| established players in the medical
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| | long as operations are successful there
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| tourism industry with visitors coming
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| | is no reason why medical tourism should
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| from a number of industrialised nations.
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| | not become a major element of the economy
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| Malta will be hard pushed to take
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| | in Malta.
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| business away from these well thought of
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