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Laser eye surgery or LASIK is a type of refractive surgery which is designed to correct long and short sightedness and fix astigmatism, with the results lasting a lifetime for most patients

To ensure absolute peace of mind for even more customers, Medical Travel Shield have increased our upper age limit to cover travellers aged up to 76.

If you are electing to travel abroad for dental treatment, cosmetic or elective surgery or even IVF treatment, you need to know that standard ‘travel insurance’ or ‘holiday insurance’ will not cover you.

In vitro fertilisation (IVF) is one of several techniques to enable couples, or individuals who wish to do so without a partner, to have a baby when for whatever reason they are not able to conceive naturally.

A number of UK patients may choose to have cosmetic surgery abroad. For many, they will have researched other countries with similarly high standards of care and treatment as the UK, where the cost can be 30-50 per cent lower, for the same quality and choice of cosmetic procedures.

Medical Travel Shield provides a specialist travel insurance product specifically for those travelling abroad for medical procedures. We look at the difference between the cover offered by Medical Travel Shield and that given by traditional insurers for general travel insurance.

As with other weight loss surgery, the use of gastric sleeve surgery for patients who would want to lose weight is becoming increasingly popular as UK waiting lists are long. This has meant that in some cases where weight-loss surgery is deemed necessary, patients have opted to have their surgery abroad.