http://elpais.com/elpais/2013/03/18/...31_223228.html

Interesting article. Just surprising that the Spanish took so long to get around to this. But, same as the tourist industry, they will have strong competition from other countries.

This was in the news a month or so ago!

remember this, one of many.............

http://www.euroresidentes.com/Blogs/...nt-dies-in.htm

Should have gone to Staffordshire for her treatment then?

We have an American part time neighbour (he lives in Florida for most of the year) who is, this very afternoon, having a number of teeth implants in a Malaga dental practice - he scheduled the treatment during one of their visits because it is hugely cheaper than he would pay in the US. We had dinner with them last night and his wife told me she'd recently been quoted $1400 by a US dental clinic for CLEANING

My Spanish dentist tells me he is around 30% cheaper than UK dentists and 50% cheaper than Scandinavian dentists .

I knew a woman in Tenerife who died very shortly after a similar op.

Apart from the possibility it may have been bodged, I wonder if there is a high degree of risk with this type of op in elderly or not so fit people ?

Bloody hell! Mine charges €36!

I met an American guy at the weekend who is thinking of moving over here on a retirement visa, because he can get medical insurance for himself and his wife much more cheaply here. Apparently pensioners in the US can't get private insurance after they retire, they have to use Medicare??

Sadly, this kind of tragedy isn't unknown in private clinics anywhere, as this case illustrates:-


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/foo...nise-dies.html

For the last 3 years I spent in the UK I was working for the Healthcare Commission covering the private health sector, and all "adverse events" were required to be reported to us. It surprised me to see how many there were - and, as in Mrs Hendry's case, people who suffer these kinds of complications from botched surgery end up being transferred to intensive care in the NHS.