Exporting eye care overseas

The lastest proposals by the coalition government to use the NHS brand overseas to generate millions of pounds for the UK has had the media in a right old tizzy.

Pundits couldn't decide how to present the plans to leverage the world class stature of UK medical expertise overseas in operations, no pun intended.  Was it the UK, fresh in its Olympic afterglow leading the way or wicked politicians selling the family silver?

Shorlty after the Tories had suggested the idea there were howls of opposition, accusations that the coalition was selling out the NHS. It shorlty became clear that Moorfields had opened such an outlet in the Middle East in 2007  and it was doing very nicely thank you.