Conflict Triangle:
We can all agree on the positive effects and the opportunities that National Health Service had been providing for all the citizens of UK regardless of wealth since the post world war II.
Over time, the ideolog; 'all health services that all citizens will benefit from', which UK Government developed with right steps, began to fail to meet the needs for different reasons.
The first reason comes to mind is; with the rise of elder population and the demand over the years, the problems started to occur in the services provided as a result of the budget that the state does not allocate to meet this demand.
To open these problems; long waiting times for even the smallest test, medical errors, insufficient personnel and most importantly, unability to access certain treatments or medications due to NHS funding restrictions. In return, dissatisfied customers and patients whose condition worsened.
No matter how effective the founding purpose and comprehensiveness of the NHS had, its reputation has been greatly damaged over the years due to the reasons above. This situation created a tendency towards the private sector, but the fact that the majority of the population could not afford a private care, gave rise to the idea of receiving treatment abroad at much more reasonable prices.
Nowadays this trend is called 'medical tourism' which offers a solution for the problems that NHS cannot deal with. Specialized treatments, shorter waiting times personalized care and affordability plays a great role in this tendency. The citizens of UK found an opportunity to access the care they had not received in their own country for a long time, without having to wait in line, at top-level hospitals and with specialist doctors. These countries that consider themselves as medical tourism centers also offered this process as an all-inclusive package with personal planning from arrival to departure. Moreover, the prices of this all-inclusive package are less than half of the price offered by the private healthcare sector in the UK.
The real conflict tirangle occur at this point. As UK citizens want to benefit the state-based health care system that comes from their own background in their treatments abroad. Thus, insurance companies come into play. Since all known major insurance companies provide limited assistance in treatments abroad and are not very present in non-emergency situations, citizens continue to seek relief abroad.