How do I find my nearest Spire Healthcare hospital?
Can I have my treatment at any Spire Healthcare hospital?
Can anyone use a Spire Healthcare hospital?
How do I arrange a referral to a Spire Healthcare hospital?
How can I find out about the consultant I'm going to see?
What do I need to do to ensure my insurance company settles the account?
Where can I get advice about buying private medical insurance?
How much will it cost if I pay for treatment myself?
Can I get a loan to help with the cost of treatment?
How do I find out about infection rates?
What are the facilities like?
How can I prepare for my stay in hospital?
Where can I find out more about my operation or treatment?What are the visiting hours?
Use the hospital finder to search for your nearest Spire Healthcare hospital
Our nationwide network of hospitals offers a wide range of operations, treatments and investigations.
Use the treatment search to find out which Spire Healthcare hospitals offer the service you are interested in
Can anyone use a Spire Healthcare hospital?
Anyone can attend a Spire Healthcare hospital for treatment, but you may need a letter of referral from your GP.
See our guide on how to obtain a GP referral
If you have private medical insurance see our tips for insured patients
If you don't have private medical insurance and would like to pay for your own treatment, find out about having treatment as a self-pay patient
If you think you may be eligible for treatment funded by the National Health Service, see our page about having treatment as an NHS patient
You will need to visit your GP, who can refer you to a consultant who practices at your local Spire Healthcare hospital. Your GP will write a letter of referral and then either you or your GP can contact us to arrange your first out-patient appointment.
In some instances, we may be able to arrange a GP referral for you. Simply contact your local Spire Healthcare
hospital and ask for details. For cosmetic surgery and some self-pay treatments, a GP referral is not normally needed and you can simply call us to make an appointment.
Use the hospital finder to search for your nearest Spire Healthcare hospital
How can I find out about the consultant I'm going to see?
The "Locate a consultant" search on this website carries details of about 3,500 consultants who treat patients in Spire Healthcare hospitals. Each consultant's profile shows qualifications, year of qualifying, special interests and expertise, and many contain additional background information and a photograph.
Use the consultant search to find a consultant by name, or to search by clinical specialty or hospital To find out about a consultant whose name does not appear, please contact your local Spire Healthcare hospital You can also check a doctor's qualifications, registration and specialist accreditation on the General Medical Council website, www.gmc-uk.org
We want everything to go as smoothly as possible for you. We'll try to minimise the amount of paperwork and, where possible, we will arrange for your insurer to settle your hospital bill direct with us.
Useful tips:
- Contact your insurance company and check that you are covered for the planned treatment, including your first out-patient appointment. If you do not have a claim form or authorisation letter, ask your insurance company to send one to you.
- Bring your claim form or authorisation letter with you when you attend your first out-patient appointment.
- If you are being admitted for in-patient or day-case treatment, please hand your claim form to the patient administrator so that we may arrange for the medical section to be completed by your consultant.
- Make sure you have completed and signed the "patient/member" section on the claim form.
- Tell the patient administrator if your treatment has been pre-authorised by your insurer, or if your claim form is already with your consultant, GP or insurance company.
- Normally, we will send your hospital bill and completed claim form to your insurance company for settlement. Please inform the ward receptionist if you would like your hospital bill or claim form to be sent to you at home or to a third party.
- If you receive any bills from your consultant or anaesthetist that relate to your current treatment, please forward them to the hospital's accounts department. We will then forward these to your insurance company for settlement.
- If you have instructed your insurance company to settle your bill direct, they will pay the hospital and consultants on your behalf. They will also inform you if you need to pay any insurance excess or shortfall.
Please see our private health insurance companies page for contact details of some major insurers.
Where can I get advice about buying private medical insurance?
If you are thinking about buying private medical insurance you can contact any of the major insurers direct (see our table of major insurers) or seek advice from a specialist private medical insurance intermediary. Premier Choice Healthcare is one of the largest independent healthcare intermediaries in the UK. You can contact Premier Choice via their website at www.premierchoicehealthcareltd.co.uk.
If you don't have private medical insurance, or you're not covered for the treatment you need, you can still enjoy private health care at Spire Healthcare hospitals. Our one-off private treatment scheme lets you arrange the treatment you need with the reassurance of a fixed price that's agreed in advance. Simply contact your local Spire Healthcare hospital to ask for a guide price for your treatment. One-off private treatment is available for major operations from cosmetic to cardiac surgery, as well as for many other procedures and diagnostic examinations.
More about one-off private treatment for self-pay patients
Guide price ranges for one-off private treatment
Medical loans for one-off private treatment
At Spire Healthcare, we focus solely on your treatment and care but we know that, for many patients who are paying for their own treatment, getting help with finance can make all the difference. So we are working with specialist medical loans company First Medical Loans – who can help you arrange affordable finance quickly and easily.
Find out more about First Medical Loans
Have a look at our MRSA and clostridium difficile rates on our performance information pages.
Simply search for the hospital and visit its homepage to see which facilities and services are available
You can take an online tour of some of our hospitals
Find out how you can prepare for a stay in a Spire Healthcare hospital
Where can I find out more about my operation or treatment?
Please see our
treatment summaries page with more information about of some of the treatments or operations performed at a Spire Healthcare hospital.
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