STC was started over 40 years ago by two teenage brothers and has grown into an international company employing 10 full time staff in the UK together with our Lithuanian partners.
Our aim is to bring excellent first class replacement hip and knee surgery to patients who are in pain and need surgery very quickly. Let's be honest, life is too short to have to wait around half a year in pain when an excellent answer is available quickly and reasonably priced together with first class re-hablitation, with the strong possibility of getting all of your money back!
It's clear in the future all patients who travel abroad within the EU will have their operation done under the NHS. Already a small number do and this will inevitably grow quickly in the near future. With your help this will happen sooner rather than later.
Our Company utilises the services of one of the finest hospitals in the European Union, Kaunas Medical University Hospital, Kaunas, Lithuania EU. Our Partner Hospital is one of the Largest and best equipped hospitals specialising in replacement surgery, especially in hips and knees, having completed over 16,000 of this type of operation, and are placed 3rd in the European hospital league for providing Orthopaedic Surgery without complications from infection.
Kaunas Medical University Hospital has virtually no MRSA or C Difficile unlike many UK and other European Hospitals. Everybody knows the problems the NHS has with targets, deficits, low morale, MRSA, C.difficile, waiting lists, to mention just a few. Kaunas University Hospital avoids these problems due to a different structured system.
We make all the arrangements to make your operation abroad a pleasurable experience for you and, if required, a friend or relative whom you may wish to accompany you.
We have good quality and economical accommodation for a companion, located very conveniently to the hospital and aftercare clinic.
Please click here to view a short video of the Hospital and clinic and surrounding area where you will be provided with a very pleasant holiday experience whilst you are receiving your new hip or knee. The video is just 6 minutes long and is made by our Lithuanian partners, it is a factual information video not a slick travelogue put together by an advertising agency.
Our current charges are less than the NHS tariff for hip and knee replacement and we are in exploratory talks with the NHS with a view to accepting patients with long waiting lists to enable the Government to actually save money by contracting out surgery, this innovation will be not only assist patients to obtain their surgery to suit their life style in a holiday enviroment but actually assist the Government to reduce costs while improving their service not reduce it as normally happens!
We will assist all patients to reclaim their operation and recuperation expenses from their local PCT. Please click here to see an article regarding a European court case where a 75 year old patient took the NHS to court and was repaid her EU private operation cost.
Finally click on the contact us and inside 2 weeks you could be well be on your way to recovery after your hip / knee replacement surgery. If you wish to travel with a friend or relative, we have negotiated with the " Home Hotel" which is within walking distance of the Kaunas University Hospital for £175 per week including breakfast. The specialist clinic can also accommodate your friend or relative for a similar price and all treatments are available for a modest price.
