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.
How we workEight stages, one UK coordinator throughout
Care that travels with you
Told to wait, or quoted more than you can pay? We arrange treatment at accredited private hospitals in India — orthopaedic, dental, cosmetic, fertility and more — with one UK coordinator beside you from first call to follow-up. It is not for everyone, and we will tell you plainly if it is not for you.
- Accredited hospitals only
- NHS-format records home with you
Sevanta
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Your treatment, your records and your appointments — in one place.
Sign in to the Patient PortalYou sign in on the portal itself, at its own secure address — never on this website.
Registration is by invitation
No public sign-up. For onboarding, your coordinator will send you a username and a one-time registration code, and you set your own password.
Sevanta will never ask you for your password, by email, message or phone.
The Patient Portal runs at its own secure address, separate from this website. Accounts exist by invitation only.
How it works · Eight stages, one UK coordinator throughout
Open the full journeyIn the UK, before you travel
In India, and back home
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 main specialties, planned like a medical file
Each has its own page: the procedures, what recovery involves, and the caveats printed in the same size. Start with the one that brought you here.
- OrthopaedicsHip, knee, shoulder and ligament surgery — where UK waiting lists bite hardest. Discharge is set by the surgeon, not the ticket.Hip replacement · Knee replacement · ACL reconstructionSee the procedures
- Cosmetic surgeryA two-week reflection period between consultation and booking. No promotions, no offers, no price until a surgeon has reviewed your case.Rhinoplasty · Abdominoplasty · Breast surgerySee the procedures
- DentalImplants, veneers and full-mouth work, usually over two visits with healing at home. Both trips planned from the outset, never under pressure.Implants · Veneers · Full-mouth restorationSee the procedures
- Fertility / IVFPlanned backwards from the transfer date, with UK-side monitoring where your clinic supports it. The legal differences set out in writing first.IVF · Donor-egg IVF · Egg freezingSee the procedures
These four are where most of our work is — not the limit of it. Wellness and preventive health programmes, general surgery, diagnostics and other specialties can be coordinated under the same checks and the same fee. If what you need is not on this page, ask: we will either arrange it properly or tell you plainly that we are not the right people for it.
Patient Portal · in build
One place where your whole treatment lives
Arranging treatment abroad normally turns the patient into the filing system: a quotation in one inbox, scans on a message thread, dates on a scrap of paper, and no reliable way to say what has actually been done. We are building the answer to that, and it is a real application rather than a folder of PDFs.
Every interaction
Each call, email and message logged with a date and a name against it.
Every appointment
Consultation, admission, flights, physiotherapy and reviews — in UK time.
Records and scans
Held encrypted, with a log of which hospital was sent what, and when.
Every report
Quotation, operation note, implant card, discharge summary — yours to download.
Milestones
The eight stages and the year after: what is done, and who you are waiting on.
Recovery, measured
Pain, movement and physiotherapy plotted against the surgeon’s own protocol.
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. 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.
More on how we are paidWhat 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 home, but is not obliged to correct treatment obtained abroad. 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 storiesVerified stories, published here as soon as they meet the standardThe standard every story is held to: consent, a named treatment and hospital, and a review you can read elsewhere.ShowHide
Patient stories
This is where the testimonials go — and only the ones you can check
Verified patient stories will be published here soon, to the standard on the right, and every one of them will be checkable: consent on file, the treatment and hospital named, and a review you can read on a platform we do not control. 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.
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.
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Talk it through before you decide anything
A first conversation is 20–30 minutes, at a time that suits you, with no obligation and no medical details needed. If treatment abroad is not sensible 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.