The referring doctor abroad: building a referral network outside India
Most international demand is decided by a doctor in another country. How to find them, what they actually want from your hospital, and the line that must never be crossed.
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Why one market’s conversion rate cannot be compared with another’s
A league table of conversion by market is the most requested slide in international reporting. It ranks the desk on things it does not control, and pushes hospitals out of workable markets.
Patients from Nigeria: how the decision is made and who else is in the room
An enquiry from Nigeria is rarely one person’s decision. Who sits in that room, what each of them needs to see, and how money, flights and language shape the case.
Patients from Iraq and Yemen: sponsorship, escorts and trust in the process
Sponsorship, escorts and a long wait before the flight define these cases. How an Indian hospital desk should design its process, its language cover and its written promises.
Measuring international demand honestly: enquiries, arrivals and the gap between
Enquiry counts flatter an international desk. Counting arrivals, defining every stage first and reading the gap between the two is the only way to know what your medical value travel demand is really doing.
Patients from Bangladesh: proximity, price and the family that travels together
Bangladesh is the one international market that behaves like a catchment with a border through it. What that changes about arrival hours, estimates, language and repeat visits.
Health check packages: marketing a product nobody urgently needs
Health checks are discretionary, easy to postpone and sold on discount everywhere. Marketing them well starts with who buys, why now, and what happens after the report.
The first hundred days in a hospital growth role
A practical plan for the first hundred days in a hospital growth role: walk the patient path, find the leaks, fix one thing people can see, and write a plan clinicians will back.
Capacity is a marketing constraint
Consultant slots, theatres and beds are the real conversion ceiling: what the funnel shows when they run out, shared slot inventory, and feeding demand back into capacity planning.
Doctor recruitment is a growth decision
What a consultant’s search footprint, reviews and referral base are worth to a unit’s P&L, how to assess them before the guarantee is signed, and the onboarding that earns it.
