Guidance for patients
Articles
What we get asked before people travel, written down properly so you can read it before you call.
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Travelling with a companion: what actually helps
Most patients travel with a relative. Deciding what that person is there to do, before you go, is the difference between support and two people worrying.
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How long to stay after treatment, and why leaving early costs more
The return date is the decision patients most often get wrong, and the one that most often turns a finished treatment into an unfinished one.
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Questions worth asking before you agree to surgery abroad
Not the questions people usually ask. These are the ones that change the decision, and most of them can be answered before anybody books a flight.
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How a written estimate is put together
What is inside a treatment estimate, which parts are genuinely fixed, which parts can move, and the questions worth asking before you accept one.
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What to send us, and why it changes your estimate
The difference between a useful estimate and a vague one is almost always the reports attached to the first message. Here is what is worth sending, and what is not.
These articles are general guidance about arranging treatment abroad. They are not medical advice, and nothing here replaces a clinician who has read your reports.