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Medical tourism

Medical Tourism: ‘Healthcare Schengen’

Once the cross-border health care directive comes into force on October 25, every EU citizen will be able to seek medical assistance in any member […]

25 October 2013 – Presseurop Gazeta Wyborcza
Poland: ‘Across the border to see the doctor’

In line with the cross-border health care directive, Polish patients will be able to travel to other EU countries to receive planned medical treatment as […]

16 September 2013 – Presseurop Gazeta Wyborcza
Poland: ‘Germans get treatment in Poland as it’s cheaper and faster’

Poland is becoming a medical tourism hub as more foreigners come for treatment using the European Health Insurance card. In the first half of 2013, foreigners […]

19 August 2013 – Presseurop Dziennik Gazeta Prawna
Belgium: ‘Sharp increase in medical tourism from neighbouring countries’

The number of Dutch, Germans, French, Luxembourgians and British seeking treatment in Belgian hospitals has risen by 18 per cent in four years, notes De […]

6 August 2013 – Presseurop De Morgen
Belgium: Belgian hearts are with the Dutch

"Seeking a heart in Belgium," headlines De Standaard, leading with a report on the large numbers of patients who avoid long waiting lists in the […]

17 January 2011 – Presseurop De Standaard
Health care: Poland leads in medical tourism

“Medical tourism has become Poland’s specialty”, Rzeczpospolita excitedly leads on its front page. In the first half-year, some 120,000 foreigners visited Poland to use medical […]

2 September 2010 – Presseurop Rzeczpospolita
Cross-border treatment: EU-wide healthcare still in waiting room

"Spain and Romania against reimbursement of medical tourism expenses," reports the Spanish edition of Adevărul. Health ministers from Europe's 27 member states have failed to […]

3 December 2009 – Presseurop Adevărul
Health: Headhunting for doctors in Bucharest

The international job fair for health professionals, which opens today in Bucharest, is an opportunity for countries in need of doctors, such as the United Kingdom, France, Austria, the Netherlands and Sweden, to fill health service vacancies — and they have the means to offer wages and working conditions that are far beyond the scope of Romania"s health budget.

16 October 2009 – Adevărul (Bucharest)

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