Hay, BrianBoterill, David2018-06-292018-06-292011-07Hay, B. & Boterill, D. (2011) From A Medical Tourism Hospitality to a UK Public National Health Service Hospital in Eight Easy Years, International Medical Travel Journal.http://www.imtj.com/articles/2011/from-private-medical-tourism-hospital-to-nhs-hospital-30106/https://eresearch.qmu.ac.uk/handle/20.500.12289/2579Considering investing in a medical tourism venture? Planning the next healthcare city? Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. This is a story of a medical tourism 'white elephant' that became an NHS hospital.In the early 1990s, a private-sector, purpose-built hospital designed to attract international medical tourists to Scotland did develope into a centre of medical excellence - but one wholly owned and managed by the National Health Service in Scotland (NHS), and not as originally intended as an international centre for medical tourism.01-Aprarticle