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Date Published: 15/07/2022
ARCHIVED - Irish patients stuck on long waiting lists offered treatment at new hospital in Alicante, Spain
The new facility in Denia in the Marina Baixa, Alicante province, aims to carry out up to 1,500 operations on Irish patients annually
Irish patients on long waiting lists are being offered treatment at a new facility, Hospital Clinica Benidorm, a 60-million-euro private hospital in Denia providing "foreign patient" care to people in Ireland.
As part of a new healthcare agreement between the Irish Company Healthcare Abroad and the Hospital Clinica Benidorm (HCB) group, the facility aims to carry out up to 1,500 operations on Irish patients annually.
Practically every treatment that is currently available on the Irish public health system will be provided at the new hospital and credit unions have begun providing a streamlined low-cost loan service for people to have medical operations abroad in a new approach to bypass the long waiting lists in Ireland.
Irish people can access healthcare in Spain under the EU Cross-Border Directive whereby patients pay for their treatment in the EU and are then reimbursed by the Healh and Safety Executive (HSE).
But travel costs are not refunded, so Irish credit unions are offering patients an alternative with flexible repayment plans.
The HSE has acknowledged waiting lists are creating opportunities for private hospitals abroad and said the involvement of credit unions could see public patients get treated quicker.
General manager of the HSE commercial unit, Catherine Donohue, said: "In an ideal world we wouldn't have patients waiting, but there are patients waiting. It is a lucrative and very valid market for private providers, and public patients benefit enormously from it."
Image: HCB Hospitals
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