Patient education and advice

At Private Healthcare UK, our aim is to "help you make the right choice" by providing information about the range of treatments and services available in the private sector. But it is not just about what it costs, and where you can go private. Our patient advice area provides medical advice and general information about operations and procedures and the diseases and medical conditions that are being treated. We also have many useful guides to various aspects of private treatment including a Guide to Going Private and  Questions to ask your doctor before an operation.

Diseases and medical conditions

It's important that patients understand as much about their disease or medical condition as possible. Our imedical advice on diseases and conditions has been written by Dr Tim Kenny who has had 10 years experience as a GP principal.

Find out about a disease or medical condition...

Operations and procedures

If you are considering a private operation, you need to understand what is involved, the risks and the recovery time. Our advice pages are written for non-medical laypersons and are drawn from authoritative sources to ensure that they are accurate, evidence-based and reflect best practice.

Find our more about an operation...

Private Healthcare UK guides

We have prepared online and downloadable guides to many aspects of private healthcare and treatment:

Watch an operation......live!

Through our partnership with OR-live.com, the leaders in healthcare webcasting, we provide access to live webcasts of operations being carried out to treat a variety of medical conditions at leading hospitals in the USA.

Access our archive of past webcasts.

Patient support and self help groups

We provide a searchable database of over 1,500 self help organisations and patient support groups across the UK that provide help, guidance and advice to patients, carers and their relatives.

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