David Charter, Europe Correspondent Mary Webb, who is in her sixties, travelled to Malta in April for a knee replacement operation. It cost her about £5,000 to have it done privately, and she says she would have been delighted to have saved the money if she could have travelled abroad and been paid for by the NHS. “I would definitely have considered it,” she said. “I had one knee replaced by the NHS nine years ago, but when I went in with the other, they said I was too heavy to have the operation.” She travelled to Malta through Mobilise, a company that arranges operations in clinics on the island. A number have emerged in recent years, often concentrating on patients in need of orthopaedic surgery - on knees and hips, for example - which involves a longer wait than for most other operations on the NHS. “I did inquire about...
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