"Nationals of countries with reciprocal health agreements with Britain
are also entitled to treatment from the NHS, although exemption from
charges is usually limited to emergency treatment. Countries with
reciprocal agreements include:
EEA nations, Anguilla, Australia, Barbados, British Virgin Islands,
Bulgaria, Channel Islands, Falkland Islands, Gibraltar, Montserrat,
New Zealand, Romania, Russia, St Helena, Switzerland, Turkey, and
the Caicos Islands."
I doubt very much that you would want to rely on a "government" hospital
in Turkey,

In places where the state facilities aren't very good (the Diyarbakir
hospital didn't look very impressive) there aren't any private ones to
turn to. In places like Istanbul or Antalya, the state one will be as
good as anything in Europe. So it's a non-issue there.

Supposedly it helps to bribe the staff in Romania.

If you find yourself needing hospitalization in West Lothian, see if
your insurance covers a helicopter airlift to somewhere that knows
the meaning of "hygiene". St Johns Hospital in Livingston is the
filthiest medical facility I have ever seen (I was in there for a
week, in which time nobody came round to mop up the pool of puke I
left on the bedside table after coming round from the anaesthetic).
The Royal Infirmary in Glasgow isn't much better.

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