I am Managing Director of Intuition Communication Ltd, a web publishing business in the healthcare sector. Intuition was established in 2003. The company owns and operates a network of web sites that provide advice and information for patients in the UK and overseas who are seeking treatment and healthcare services.
Our sites include Private Healthcare UK, the UK's leading portal for private healthcare services and the rapidly growing medical tourism site, Treatment Abroad. The Harley Street Guide is aimed at patients from the UK and abroad who are seeking information about doctors, dentists, hospitals and medical and clinical services in this centre of London’s medical expertise. Cancer Advice provides comprehensive information on the diagnosis,and treatment of cancer and is edited by Intuition's Medical Director, Dr Nick Plowman.
Self Help UK has a searchable database of patient support and self help groups across the UK. Treatment in Spain provides advice on accessing healthcare services in Spain for medical tourists, expatriates, holidaymakers and business travellers. There are similar portals for Treatment in Hungary, Treatment in Cyprus and Treatment in India.
A recent development is OHS Directory, an online directory that provides company profiles and information on occupational health providers, services and products throughout the UK. We have also recently launched a Medical Tourism Ratings and Reviews site, and established an online Private Healthcare Guide in partnership with Netdoctor.
Medical Expert provides access to information about expert witnesses in the health and medical sector , and UK law firms that specialise in areas such as clinical negligence and medical negligence.
In 2009, Intuition acquired International Medical Travel Journal ( IMTJ), a business to business online jurnal that provides insight into and comment upon the medical tourism indutry
I write a blog on medical tourism on Blogger.
Recent blog posts
- Dental tourism...Let's work together
- Increase in IVF tourism in Europe
- Medical tourism and a medical city ...a lesson from history
- NHS Patient Choice - Lessons for medical tourism
- A word of warning for medical tourism companies
- The war of words....Is it medical tourism or medical travel?
- The challenge facing the medical tourism industry
- NHS staff numbers reach an all-time high
- Will Obama end the American medical tourism dream
- EU votes on medical tourism directive
- The smoke and mirrors of medical tourism
- What can medical tourism learn from previous recessions
- How well written are medical tourism web sites?
- Marketing in the medical tourism downturn
- What can Google tell us about medical tourism?
- Medical tourism: Survival of the fittest?
- How to run a medical tourism conference
- Medical tourism: The answer to the global healthcare crisis.
- Medical tourism ratings and reviews
- medicaltourism.com ......going, going gone?
See my Health Tourism Blog.
I am also a regular speaker and commentator on medical tourism.