Private Health Advice: How Private Healthcare Works in the UK

You'll discover everything you need to know about private healthcare in the UK, from finding the right treatment and insurance options to exploring care abroad and understanding how private and NHS services work together. Private Health Advice is here to help.

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Access to Specialists in Private Health

Those wishing to pursue their care and treatment to be provided in the private sector may want to find the best specialist in their area or already have a do...

Paying for Cancer Drugs No Longer Means NHS Exclusion

Controversy has surrounded the decisions made by the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) since it was set up in 2000. This government body is r...

Private Healthcare and Your Recovery

Although it may seem fairly easy to enquire and even book a procedure in the private sector, many people can be unsure about the care they receive after they...

Sports Injury Clinics in the Private Sector

For athletes and people who play sport seriously, if not professionally, an injury sustained while participating, or elsewhere, can spell disaster. When you...

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Going Abroad for Treatment? Get Medical Travel Insurance

If you are travelling abroad to have private medical treatment you are probably paying for the trip and the medical costs yourself. Few private medical insur...

Self Pay: Important Considerations

Private medical treatment in the UK is available to anyone who has a private medical insurance policy. This cover may be provided as part of an employer’s...

What Private Physiotherapy Treatments Are Available?

Physiotherapy is available on the National Health Service in the UK but services can be limited and waiting lists can be long. For some conditions, it is pre...

Going Abroad for Fertility Treatment

In the UK, the demand for fertility treatment regularly outstrips demand. Different regions of the country have different rules about how many cycles of in v...

Private Treatment for Eating Disorders

Eating disorders are becoming better understood and less of a taboo. Those affected by conditions such as anorexia nervosa, bulimia, binge eating and other d...

Health Insurance and Private Treatment Abroad

The option of medical tourism is becoming more attractive as prices for private treatments elsewhere in Europe can be lower than in the UK. Procedures in Eas...

Facts and Figures: Costs of Private Treatment

Private healthcare in the UK is a massive industry that incorporates private hospitals for medical treatment, private clinics for cosmetic surgery and other...

Eye Surgery in Europe

If you need eye surgery it is possible to have several procedures done privately to avoid waiting for National Health Service treatment in the UK. Another op...

I Had Addiction Treatment in Thailand: Case Study

After denying that she had an alcohol problem for several years, and after many fruitless attempts to stop drinking, or at least cut down, Janine realised th...

Going Abroad for Medical Spa Treatments

For someone who is tired, stressed and maybe recovering from an illness and conventional treatment, a medical spa combined with a holiday can be very appeali...

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