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The UK's first conference on Global Health Tourism

October 2010

A one-day conference on health and medical tourism will take place in October 2010, alongside the UK's only exhibition on health tourism. The conference will look at many of the issues that are brought up when money and medicine collide:

• If overseas facilities offer better value, should the NHS fund treatment abroad?

• Inward-bound Health tourism by foreign nationals in the UK: fair or foul?

• Which mechanisms should be used to state-fund treatment abroad?

• Travelling for joint-replacements to boob-ops: What should get funded, what not, and why?

• Opportunities and problems with international health tourism accreditation...

• Insurance - the crux question for the future development of health tourism

• What happens if it goes wrong? Who pays for what, and who picks up the pieces?

• Working together - Governments and health care providers aim for 'joined-up thinking'

• The crucial - and under-regulated - role of facilitators in health tourism

• Care into old age - Should the UK's pensioners be shipped to Penang?

The event will have plenty of opportunities for networking and discussion, and will feature a networking reception at the end of the day.

Provisional programme

08.30 Registration and networking

09.30 Keynote presentation - Status of global health and medical tourism

10.00 Keynote presentation - UK approach to health tourism funding

10.30 Meet the delegates

11.00 Coffee and networking

11.30 Session 1: Future developments in health tourism

13.00 Lunch and networking

14.00 Session 2: Medicine and money

15.30 Coffee and networking

16.00 Session 3: Joined-up thinking in health tourism

17.30 Networking reception

Call for Papers - Health Tourism Conference

This is the call for papers for the Health Tourism Conference. The organisers are interested to hear from prospective speakers on the conference topics (see above). Registration fees for presenters will be waived. No advertising or marketing will be permitted in conference presentations.

All presenters will be required to provide a written document for the conference proceedings, a powerpoint presenation for the conference CD and a short biography. All materials are required by 1 October at the latest.

In the first instance, please contact the conference organiser, Robert McCaffrey, rob@propubs.com, with your proposed presentation title.

Registration - Health Tourism Conference

Registration for the Health Tourism Conference will open in early 2009.

Delegate fees: £595 + VAT (includes conference registration, lunch and coffee breaks, networking reception, conference proceedings volume and presentations CD).