Medical Tourism

1. Vienne, Austria (UK-Austria MediLink)

Austria, known for its classical music, rich history and cultural sophistication, has become a reliable and top destination for medical tourism in Europe. Austria has exceptional healthcare system offering high-quality treatments in orthopedics, oncology, urology and vascular specialties.

Most Austrian clinics are accredited by international bodies, ensuring they meet the highest standards of medical care. Austria places a high emphasis on patient safety and stringent protocols are in place to ensure the well-being of the patient.

2. Bucharest, Romania (UK-Romania MediLink)

Romania is an EU country, that has been widely promovated by King Charles, who consider Transilvania (a part of Romania) as his second home.

Romania has a very well developed private medical system, which can compete with prestigious international medical centers.

Bucharest, Romania is becoming a popular destination for medical tourism in Europe, because it offers dental, medical or surgical treatment at international standards and lower costs compared with other European contries. In some recent statistics, Romania appears as one of the top 10 destination in the world for dental treatment.

We have created the UK-Austria MediLink, a service for people willing to have prompt access to first-class medical facilities in Vienne. Vienne is at the top of the world’s medical sector due to the high quality private clinics. Vienne’s private clinics are seen internationally as exemplary models of perfect medical care and they offer you a perfect combination of tradition with up-to-date technology in the field of medical diagnosis and treatment.

We can quickly organise your appointments in Vienne with no waiting times and we can ensure that you have a personalised treatment, based on your needs and wishes. We can also provide you an estimate of your medical costs. Flying after majour surgery is not always allowed after certain types of surgical procedures but you can purchase our road ambulance repatriation service, in case that you can’t fly for longer period of time.

Our company has created the UK-Romania MediLink, a service for people willing to access healthcare services in Bucharest-Romania, while having a holiday in the beautiful Romania.

This service is for everyone who can not receive the healthcare service in an acceptable timeframe in their own country, in the form of dental care, medical diagnosis, medical or surgical treatment.

If you are interested in this service, we liaise with private medical clinics in Bucharest, helping you to have the right appointments, decreasing the language barrier and making your Romanian experience invaluable.

We have easy access to top private hospitals in Bucharest and we can schedule your appointments as per your needs, in a short time scale. In Bucharest, we are collaborating with hospitals that have a modern medical infrastructure, medical staff with high qualifications and experience and good patient feedback.

All logistics regarding finding the specific dental, medical or surgical service you need can be arranged by us, scheduling your appointments, over a period of 1-2 weeks. Although this time will be enough for most of the patients, in cases that imply majour dental work or rehabilitation services, the treatment may be longer than that. Please don’t worry, we can work out in advance how many days you need to stay in Bucharest to complete your treatment.

The logistics regarding travel (airfare, accomodation, local transport) can be arranged through our recommended travel agency.

Please send us a request for either UK-Romania MediLink or UK-Austria MediLink at booking@ambulanceinternational.co.uk.

We will send you a short questionnaire to be complete it, after which we provide you some free information, that aims to identify your medical needs and to guide you in chosing the right speciality and right doctor for you. You don’t have to give us personal identifiable data (name, address, date of birth), if your request is only for basic information and not for booking.

For Austria, we are not providing you medical recommendations but general guiding about what can kind of treatments or procedures are available in the top of the world’s medical sector and what are the names of the top European doctors, from which you can choose to have your assessment. After your booking through UK-Austria MediLink, the Austrian doctors will discuss directly with you, inform you about the latest treatment available as well as the risk-benefits of some particular interventions.

For Romania, our Consultant can provide you few medical recommendations based on your needs, in the form of what specific blood tests or investigations you might need to consider for diagnosis purposes or before a surgical intervention, risks associated with specific procedures, type of interventions available for your disease and information about a safety travel after a surgical treatment.

If you will like us to arrange your medical appointments, we can do this for a fee of £150, that need to be paid in advance. The fee for this service cover our time in relation with organizing your appointments and cost of international phone calls. This booking process for your healthcare appointments can significantly simplify your medical journey in Romania as well as Austria.

Through UK-Austria MediLink, you can have exclusive services adapted to your needs and performed by best specialists worldwide. You can have access to experts and doctors who works in renowed AKH (Vienna General Hospital) and Centers of Excellence in Vienne. We all know that health is one of our most important values, so please use UK-Austria MediLink and come to Vienne!

We can schedule your appointment with Univ. Prof. Dr Bob Djavan, the chairman of the Regional Office at the European Association of Urology and you can have your bladder, prostate or kidney cancer or any other urological problem treated by a world-wide expert in the field.

We can schedule your appointment with Prof Dr Benedikt Weber, an expert in the field of dermatology with specific expertize in venous disease. We can set up an appointment for you in case you need minimally invazive treatment for your varicouse veins, veneous thrombosis or venous malformations.

We can set up an your appointment with Univ. Prof. Dr Bela Teleky, Head of Surgery division at Medical University of Vienna, department of General Surgery, who is an expert in general abdominal and colorectal surgery as well as oncologic surgery.

If you are not receiving planned surgery for hip or knee in an acceptable timeframe in your country, we can schedule your orthopedic treatment in Vienne, that will be done promptly with the best post-surgery care you can have. We can schedule your appointment with OA Dr Med Martin Steindl, one of the best Orthopedic Consultants, with vast experience in knee and hip surgery and endoprosthetics. Through UK-Austria MediLink you can have a variety of conservative orthopedic treatments such as joint infiltrations, platelet-rich plasma injections, gold implantation, orthotic treatment for foot problems.

You can have an appointment in a Breast Competence Center in Vienne and be assessed by Univ. Prof. Florian Fitzal, Chief of Breast surgery department at Vienna Medical University. You can have comprehensive diagnosis for any breast tumour, breast surgery, chemotherapy or precision medicine such as targeted therapy, based on molecular testing if you are diagnosed with breast cancer.

We can arrange your appointment with Univ. Prof. Dr. Heinz Ludwig, President of  the Austrian Cancer and former President of European Society for Oncology. You can be assessed by experts in Oncology and have your oncological treatment in one of the Excellence Center for Cancer in Vienne. On the same appointment, you can have a PET CT scan, which can detect abnormalities before disease shows up on other imaging tests (CT or MRI).

If you have a rare infectious disease, a tropical disease or a disease transmitted from an insect, bird or animal, our expert in Infectious Diseases from AKH Vienne-Univ.Prof.Dr Stefan Winkler can help you to have the right diagnosis and treatment.

We can plan your dental work in Romania. The dental treatment will fall in the following categories: 1) preventive and cosmetic dental care (professional teeth cleaning, whitening, checkups, Xrays); 2) basic restorative care (dental filling and root canal); 3) majour restaurative care (implants, bridges, crowns, dentures, oral surgery procedures); 4) orthodontic treatment.

If you have chronic symptoms but no clear diagnosis, we can schedule your appointments for a holistic checkup and tailor investigations around your symptoms and signs.

You can have a large variety of blood tests, which can increase your chance for diagnostic clarification. You can have any of the following tests: hematological tests, immunological tests, fertility and hormonal tests, tumoral markers and specific tests for infections (parasitic, bacterial, viral or fungal infections).

We can schedule your appointments for medical imaging, such as ultrasound scan (abdominal, vascular, tyroid), mamography, CT or MRI scan for all body regions.

We can schedule your specific cardiology appointments for ECG, stress ECG, echocardiography, cardiac MRI and your appointment with a Cardiology Consultant.

We can schedule your appointments for any of endoscopies you need (gastroscopy, colonoscopy, nasal or laringeal endoscopy, colposcopy, cystoscopy) as well as your appointment with Gastroenterologist, ENT, Urologist or Gynecology Consultant.

In dermatology field, we can schedule a diagnostic appointment, in order to identify the type of skin lesions you might have (dermatoscopy, skin biopsy, tests for allergic reactions, tests for specific infections) as well as an appointment for treatment (cryotherapy, electrocautery, surgical excision, drainage of cysts or abscess, nail treatments).

For abdominal surgical treatment, you will need to have an assessment from a General Surgical Consultant together with a pre-surgical check-up, before any direct appointment for surgical procedure. We can set up your appointments for surgery for the following diseases: anal pathology (abscess, fistula, haemmorhoids, anal prolaps), billiary patology (laparoscopic or clasic gallbladder resection) and abdominal hernias and eventrations.

If you are not receiving the orthopedic treatment for shoulders, ankles, wrists in an acceptable timeframe in your country, we can schedule in Romania your minimally invasive treatment, that will be done promptly and at a lower cost than in UK or other European countries.