Wait or PayFaster paths to NHS treatment
Your wait, your condition, your options, your budget.

See your NHS wait, and every way to shorten it.

Other sites show you the wait. We show you all 4 ways forward, on the NHS and privately, with real waits and honest costs, matched to your condition, your hospital and your budget.

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Stay where you are

Keep your place. Sometimes waiting is the right call, we will say so.

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Switch NHS hospital

Right to Choose lets you move to a faster NHS hospital, free.

Part paid

Part-private, keep your NHS place

Pay for the scan or first appointment, keep the NHS for treatment.

Self funded

Go private

Fastest, fully private, with honest end-to-end costs.

Treatment Waits

An operation or procedure, like hips, knees, hernias, cataracts, gynaecology and more.

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Scans & Tests

MRI, x-ray, ultrasound and more, or tests like sleep studies and genetics.

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How long will you really wait, and how could you go sooner?

Your free dashboard compares all four paths for your treatment: wait, switch to a faster NHS hospital, part-private, or fully private. It names the faster hospitals near you, shows what going private would cost, and gives you letters ready to send. You can print it or save it as a PDF. Free, and nothing is locked or paid.

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