Trusts encouraged to ‘twin’ with international hospitals
Healthcare UK is urging NHS hospital trusts to pair up with hospitals in countries such as China to help them secure more international business connections.
MD Howard Lyons also revealed new draft guidelines that would help hospital trusts open new income opportunities by offering advice to overseas counterparts, with hopes that every trust would engage in international dealings within the next ten years.
Worldwide advice
Some trusts are already getting stuck in to new schemes, with Leeds Teaching Hospital Trust working with the King Hussein Cancer Foundation based in Amman, Jordan.
Mr Lyons told the Health Service Journal “We foresee a time after the next election when eventually every NHS organisation will be sharing it’s know-how internationally. There are countries around the world that would love to send their patients to the UK. It’s not going to cost anything for patients to come to an NHS trust for treatment and it’s not going to disadvantage home treatment either.”
