• via Telegraph
The NHS Exodus: When Poland Outperforms Britain
British patients now flee to Eastern Europe for procedures their own system can't provide
While politicians continue proclaiming the NHS as the "envy of the world," British patients are now fleeing to Poland, Lithuania, and the Czech Republic for basic medical care their own healthcare system cannot provide. This isn't medical tourism—it's medical refuge, funded by a health service so broken that paying foreign hospitals has become cheaper than fixing domestic capacity.