How do patients access the programme?

A patient can have access to health care services overseas as a Government sponsored patient after successfully going through the procedure outlined below.

Patient must be receiving treatment in a Government Health Care entity in Malta and must be under the care of a local Government employed consultant.

Patient must have received all possible treatment and has undergone all possible investigations locally.

The local consultant requests that patient be referred for further treatment when all local options have been exhausted, patient will be referred for further investigations and/or treatment in an NHS hospital overseas by his local caring consultant.

Patient’s caring consultant will fill in a referral form for consideration by the Treatment Abroad Committee. A medical summary shall be drawn up and attached to the referral form.

The referral form should be endorsed by the Clinical Chairperson of the referring specialty.

Referral form and medical summary will be reviewed by the Treatment Abroad Committee who will take the ultimate decision whether patient is approved for treatment overseas.

Medical records and scans are sent to hospitals overseas for evaluation and advice by Foreign Consultants.