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Growing numbers of patients are paying for treatment abroad rather than enduring lengthy NHS waiting times, according to medical tourism leaders. Overseas clinics are reporting increases in Britons travelling for 'more affordable' private treatments including hip and knee replacements, varicose vein removal and dental procedures. Data from the Private Healthcare Information Network shows the number of self-funded hip replacements has increased by almost 200 per cent since 2019. At the inaugural London Health Tourism Expo at the weekend, hospital bosses at Turkey's leading private healthcare providers were confident of signing up more patients willing to travel for cut-price care. Dr Aydin Arslan, an orthopaedic surgeon who works at two hospitals in Turkey, said he had seen an increase in the number of British patients flying over for surgical and non-surgical procedures.

After botched surgery, a woman who went to Turkey to get a gastric band fitted died of 'agonizing, tragic death,' MPs learned. Shannon Bowe, 28, had been 'convulsing' for nine hours before she died after the surgery went wrong. Ms Bowe, a Falkirk resident, was just one of 28 Britons who died after elective procedures abroad, according to foreign minister Leo Docherty. "far too many people" had died after being carried out in another country, according to Falkirk MP John McNally, who called for health tourism advertisements to be banned.