Is treatment abroad right for me? Eight questions to answer first
Before the price, before the hospital, before anyone talks to you about flights — the questions that decide whether this is a sensible idea for you at all.
UK-registered · No email gate · No hospital commission
Care that travels with you
Orthopaedic, cosmetic, dental and fertility treatment at accredited private hospitals in India, coordinated from the UK at every stage — for people who have been told to wait, or been quoted more than they have. It is not for everyone, and we will tell you plainly if it is not for you.
- Companies House 17407709
- Accredited hospitals only
- NHS-format records home with you
- No commission from any hospital
Four things this site will not do
No price behind an email form
When our figures are published they go on the site, ungated, before you tell us anything. Until then the page says TBU rather than a number we invented.
No patient stories we cannot evidence
We have treated nobody yet. When we have, stories go up with consent and a review you can check elsewhere.
No claim we would not put in writing
Every figure on this site has to say where it came from. The ones that cannot yet say it read TBU instead.
No mystery about your medical records
A first call needs no medical detail at all. What you send later is encrypted, never sold, and seen only by the surgeon you choose — and you fly home with a discharge summary and imaging in the format your GP and the NHS actually use.
The story so far
Most people arrive here three chapters into the same story
If the first three sound familiar, that is because they happen in the same order to almost everyone. The fourth chapter is the reason this site exists.
Chapter one — probably already behind you
You were told to wait
You were referred, you waited, and the date keeps moving — or the treatment you want is not funded at all. Meanwhile the problem is worse than it was, and you have stopped doing things you used to do without really deciding to.
Chapter two — probably already behind you
You priced it privately
The UK private quote was a number you cannot reach without touching money you had earmarked for something else — and it still came with conditions you did not expect.
Chapter three — probably already behind you
So you searched
Which produced a hundred glossy sites with no prices, testimonials you cannot check, and nobody willing to write down the answers to the questions that actually worried you.
Chapter four · you are here
This is the part we are trying to be good at
Not persuading you to fly. Setting out what the operation would cost in full, which hospitals we checked and what we found, the honest caveats — including the ones that come from travelling — and what happens when you get home. Then leaving the decision with you, including the decision not to go.
Treatments
Four specialties, planned like a medical file
Each one has its own page with the procedures, what recovery involves and — printed in the same size — the honest caveats. Prices and recovery times read TBU until every figure has a source behind it. Start with the one that brought you here.
- OrthopaedicsHip and knee replacement, shoulders and ligaments — where UK waiting lists bite hardest and where the discharge date is set by the surgeon, not the ticket.Hip replacement · Knee replacement · ACL reconstructionSee the procedures
- Cosmetic surgeryWith a two-week reflection period built in between the surgeon consultation and any booking. No promotions, no time-limited offers, no price before a surgeon has reviewed your case.Rhinoplasty · Abdominoplasty · Breast surgerySee the procedures
- DentalImplants, veneers and full-mouth work, usually across two visits with a healing interval at home. Both trips are planned at the outset, never booked under pressure.Implants · Veneers · Full-mouth restorationSee the procedures
- Fertility / IVFPlanned backwards from the transfer date, with UK-side monitoring arranged wherever your own clinic will support it — and the legal differences set out in writing first.IVF · Donor-egg IVF · Egg freezingSee the procedures
We coordinate. The hospital treats. You decide — and we will tell you if the answer should be no.
CostsOne itemised price, with the exclusions printed beside itWhat a hospital quotation covers, what it deliberately does not, and how Sevanta itself is paid.ShowHide
Costs
One itemised price, with the exclusions printed beside it
A price without a “not included” column is how people arrive in another country and discover the quotation never covered the implant, the extra night, or the flight home when discharge slips. Every estimate we produce shows both columns, in pounds, and before anyone asks for your phone number. Our own figures are still being verified, so the costs page reads TBU rather than showing you a number we invented.
How we are paid
You pay Sevanta a fixed coordination fee, agreed in writing before you commit to anything. You pay the hospital directly for treatment; your money never passes through us. Our partner team in India is paid commission by the hospitals it works with, and we say so.
Read the full disclosureWhat a hospital quotation includes
- Consultant surgeon, anaesthetist and theatre fees
- Implant or prosthesis as specified in your quotation
- Inpatient stay, medication and daily physiotherapy where indicated
- Airport transfers, hospital admission and discharge coordination
What it does not
- Flights, visa fees and travel insurance, which you arrange yourself
- Accommodation before admission and after discharge
- Treatment for complications outside the hospital’s own package terms
- Medication taken home, and UK aftercare beyond the arranged plan
A coordinator adds the excluded lines back in — flights, accommodation, a companion, extra nights and our fee — so the figure you are given is the one you would actually spend. Indicative, in GBP, and never a quotation: your own price depends on the treatment plan the surgeon sets after reviewing your records.
HospitalsWhat we look at before a hospital goes on the registerSix checks with a named source, and somebody from Sevanta in the building. Open to see what we look at.ShowHide
Hospitals
What we look at before a hospital goes on the register
Six checks, each with a named source, and somebody from Sevanta in the building — the ward you would recover on, the theatre corridor, the sterilisation unit, the physiotherapy room. Each entry records whether we have been. The pictures here illustrate what we look at; they are not photographs of the hospitals themselves.
Sterilisation and infection controlA sterilisation unit — the kind of thing we ask hospitals to show us. The room you would recover inA single room of the kind used for recovery. Illustration. The physiotherapy room, and who staffs itA physiotherapy room. Illustration — not a specific hospital. 
Theatre and procedure areasA procedure room. Documentary photograph, not a partner hospital. Monitoring, equipment and its servicingA patient monitor. Illustration. - See the hospitals and what we checked
The register
Every hospital we work with, city by city, with its accreditation named, the scope of that accreditation, and whether we have walked the building.
Aftercare in the UKComing home is a planned stage, not the end of our involvementPhysiotherapy booked before you fly, your records to your GP, and check-ins on a written schedule for twelve months.ShowHide
Aftercare in the UK
Coming home is a planned stage, not the end of our involvement
Most of the recovery from surgery happens in the weeks after you land. So the physiotherapist is booked before you fly, your GP receives the full record with your consent, and the same coordinator checks in on a written schedule for twelve months.
- UK physiotherapy arranged before departure, starting within the first week home
- Discharge summary, operation note, implant card and imaging in NHS-usable formats
- Scheduled check-ins at two, six and twelve weeks and at twelve months
Where UK protection stopsSome protections do not travel with you. We say which ones, before you book.The CQC, the GMC and the NHS: what each one does not cover once treatment happens abroad, and what replaces it.ShowHide
Where UK protection stops
Some protections do not travel with you. We say which ones, before you book.
The Care Quality Commission does not inspect hospitals in India. The General Medical Council has no jurisdiction over a surgeon practising there. The NHS will treat you if you are unwell when you are home, but it is not obliged to correct treatment obtained abroad and is not liable for it. Our Privacy & Safety page sets out what replaces each of those, and what does not.
- Revision surgery, insurance and who pays for what, in plain language
- Travel insurance that explicitly covers planned surgery abroad, as a condition of proceeding
- Where your medical records go, who sees them, and your rights over them
Surgeons and cliniciansFour things are true about every clinician before their name appears hereNo portraits until there is a signed agreement behind each name — the standard, as four steps.ShowHide
Surgeons and clinicians
Four things are true about every clinician before their name appears here
Profiles are published one at a time, as each hospital agreement is signed and each registration is verified. Until then, this is the standard — which tells you more than a page of portraits would.
- 01
Checked on the public register
Indian Medical Register (NMC) for India-based surgeons; GMC or HCPC for UK clinicians. Number, qualification and year printed.
- 02
Volume in your operation, in writing
How many of your procedure the unit did in a named year, from the hospital’s records department. No figure, no profile.
- 03
Met on video before booking
You speak to the consultant who would operate — not a representative — before you commit to more than our fee.
- 04
Under the hospital’s governance
Sevanta employs no clinician. Complaints go to the hospital and, where applicable, to India’s National Medical Commission.
Registered in India. The General Medical Council has no jurisdiction over India-based surgeons — every profile will say so, and we say it here first.
How we verify a surgeonPatient storiesThere are none yet, and we would rather say soThe standard every story will be held to: consent, a named treatment and hospital, and a review you can read elsewhere.ShowHide
Patient stories
This is where the testimonials would go. There are none yet, and we would rather say so.
Sevanta is a new company and has coordinated no treatment yet. Any story on this site will be published to the standard on the right, and the first one will appear the day it meets it — not before. If a medical travel company shows you testimonials it cannot link to, ask it why.
The standard in fullWritten consent, dated
Full name, with the patient’s signed permission to publish it, and the date consent was given printed on the card.
A review you can read elsewhere
Every story links to the review on the platform where the patient left it — somewhere we do not control and cannot edit.
Treatment, hospital and month named
Not “a knee patient from the north”. The procedure, the hospital on our register, and when — so the story can be checked against the record.
Don’t trust us. Check us.
Four public registers, none of them ours
- Companies HouseSevanta Health Ltd, company 17407709Our registered name, address, director and filing history.
- ICO register of fee payersData protection registrationRegistration in progress — we register before we accept a first enquiry.
- NABHAccredited hospitals in IndiaCheck any hospital we list, and which tier of accreditation it holds.
- National Medical CommissionIndian Medical RegisterCheck any surgeon we name, by registration number.
GuidesReading for the decision, not the saleIs treatment abroad right for me? What does accreditation mean? What does it really cost?ShowHide
Guides
Guides for the decision, not the sale
What “accredited hospital” actually means, and how to check it yourself
NABH, JCI, ISQua, entry-level certification — the vocabulary every hospital website uses, what each term does and does not tell you, and the public registers where you can look it up without trusting anybody.
The true cost of surgery abroad: the lines that are usually left out
A hospital quotation is one number among nine. The others — flights, a companion, extra nights, insurance, the coordination fee, UK physiotherapy — are where most estimates quietly go wrong.
Questions about Sevanta? They are answered — and searchable — on one page.
Search the FAQsTalk to a coordinator
Talk it through before you decide anything
A first conversation is twenty to thirty minutes, at a time that suits you, with no obligation and no medical details needed. If treatment abroad is not a sensible option for you, we will say so on that call.
- 1A coordinator reads it the same dayA named person, in the UK, not a ticket queue.
- 2We call you within one working dayAt a time you choose — evenings and Saturday mornings included.
- 3Nothing is booked, nothing is soldA first conversation ends with an honest answer, including "not for you".
Rather talk than type? Our number is published at launch — Monday to Friday 9am–6pm, Saturday mornings.