{"id":104080,"date":"2025-05-15T17:32:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T17:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/104080\/"},"modified":"2025-05-15T17:32:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T17:32:09","slug":"new-private-hospital-in-valencia-to-treat-1000-irish-people-per-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/104080\/","title":{"rendered":"New private hospital in Valencia to treat 1,000 Irish people per year"},"content":{"rendered":"

A new private hospital in the Spanish coastal city of Valencia is expected to treat 1,000 Irish people per year fed up of languishing on waiting lists at home.<\/p>\n

The Vithas Valencia Turia Hospital, which opened this week, has dedicated capacity for treating public patients from Ireland awaiting orthopaedic surgeries such as hip and knee replacements.<\/p>\n

The new hospital is a purpose-built, state-of-the-art facility with 95 beds, including 64 private rooms, 8 operating theatres, and seven intensive care units and will deliver a wide range of planned orthopaedic surgeries, and is expected to treat up to 1,000 Irish patients annually.<\/p>\n

However, at present the scheme will not be available to those residing in the north as they do not fall under the EU directive which administers it.<\/p>\n

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The agreement is the latest treatment option for Irish patients under the EU Cross Border Healthcare Directive, through a partnership between Irish private health group Healthcare Abroad and the Vithas Hospital Group.<\/p>\n

Under the EU Cross Border Directive, Irish patients can access treatment in hospitals in another EU country with procedure costs reimbursed by the Irish Health Service Executive (HSE).<\/p>\n

It comes as new research, commissioned by Healthcare Abroad, revealed that 1 in 5 Irish patients (20%) have missed out on important life events, due to delays in accessing planned surgical care including knee and hip replacements among others. <\/p>\n

The research added almost 1 in 3 (30%) said they\u2019ve considered going abroad for treatment. <\/p>\n

Speaking at the opening of the Valencia Turia Hospital, Paul Byrne, Chief Operations Officer at Healthcare Abroad said, \u201cThis is about offering Irish patients timely access to high-quality care in a trusted and supported way. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe understand how much of an impact delays can have, not just on physical health, but on people\u2019s lives. This new hospital gives patients a real alternative without stepping outside of the Irish public system.\u201d<\/p>\n

The opening of the new hospital in Spain aimed at attracting Irish patients comes as Stormont\u2019s Department of Health last week announced a new \u00a310million reimbursement scheme<\/a> for those on waiting lists seeking treatments abroad.<\/p>\n

An initial \u00a310m will be invested in the scheme, allowing people to claim back costs when they receive treatments outside the north, subject to qualifying criteria.<\/p>\n

Beginning in June 2025, it will apply to procedures obtained in the Republic of Ireland and will subsequently be extended to the rest of the European Union. <\/p>\n

The Reimbursement Scheme will be available to patients waiting two years or more on a hospital treatment waiting list in the north.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new private hospital in the Spanish coastal city of Valencia is expected to treat 1,000 Irish people…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104081,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[1144,16,15,16833],"class_list":{"0":"post-104080","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-northern-ireland","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-valencia"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114513047958539754","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}