Healthcare

In the event you need home visits from doctors in Malta there are a lot of options. This is useful when you are struck by a particularly severe illness or are otherwise physically unable to leave your home. There are three broad categories covering home visits.

If you’re familiar with the UK National Health Service (NHS) you should feel right at home in Malta, as the NHS in Malta have been heavily inspired by the British. These services are both funded by tax revenues as well as contributions to national insurance; this allows offering free health related services to all citizens who are covered by health-care.

Medical tourism in Malta is still relatively small, however, part of the Maltese private health sector, St James Hospital Group boasts, an outstanding reputation for its level of medical service and customer care. A person’s health is one of the most precious assets they have, and as such we believe our customers need a guaranteed and reliable host to trust with their health. Our service is delivered in accordance with international standards: performed by highly experienced and internationally qualified surgeons, and delivered in our state-of-the-art hospitals and facilities.

Making sure that you have the correct expat insurance in place can be a tricky business at the best of times, never mind when you are an expatriate in a foreign country. Expats in Malta need to check that they have enough cover in place to protect everything they might need whilst balancing this against the potential for being over-insured and therefore paying out too much for cover. As such when purchasing cover it is important that you shop around and perhaps check any existing policies that you might have already at home to check you are not choosing cover that you already have in place.

The Malta healthcare system is funded by government taxation. So renowned is this system that it has been rated as the fifth best system in the world by the World Health Organisation (WHO). Yet it also has a thriving private healthcare sector, with world-class specialists, technology and procedures available through health insurance plans or with a one-time fee. Understanding the details of both options will allow you to come to a greater conclusion on which service to choose.

Founded in 1984, the St James Hospital in Sliema, is one of the top private healthcare providers in Malta. Also known as the St. James Capua hospital, the group offers a wide range of basic and specialist healthcare services from simple phlebotomy to complex surgery and including dental services and cosmetic surgery.The hospital has a mission statement of being a centre of healthcare excellence based on four key founding principles: