A Foreign Operation
David Jones is 83 and on an NHS waiting list for a knee operation he badly needs. He has now joined the growing band of people from the south and east who are going to France to pay for a private operation, at less than half the cost here. With hard-pressed local health authorities interested in the idea,
Michael Delahaye follows his journey across the- Channel, investigates the possibility of foreign operations on the NHS and asks why the French find the very idea of waiting lists so baffling. Producer Halina Kierkuc
Executive producer Peter Lowe
0 REGIONAL PROGRAMME: for details of variations see panel on page 8