MED TRAVEL CONNECT LTD · 15728624
Medical travel safety
Patient checklist
Before choosing treatment
- Seek an independent second opinion where appropriate.
- Confirm the clinic's legal identity, registration, current address and complaints process.
- Verify the named clinician's registration, qualifications, relevant experience and professional insurance.
- Ask for the expected benefits, material risks, alternatives and likely recovery time in writing.
Before travelling
- Obtain specialist travel insurance that expressly covers planned treatment and possible complications.
- Ask the treating clinician when you will be fit to travel or fly.
- Confirm what the quotation includes and budget for extra nights, changed flights, medicines and return visits.
- Share relevant medical information only through the secure route agreed with the clinic.
Aftercare and complications
- Obtain a written aftercare plan, emergency contact and details of who is responsible after you return to the UK.
- Understand whether further treatment for a complication would be charged separately.
- For urgent or life-threatening symptoms, use local emergency services; do not wait for a coordinator reply.
Avoid providers using pressure, unrealistic guarantees, missing risk information or holiday-style messaging that trivialises surgery. The final decision must follow a consultation with the treating clinician.