Wait, pay, or a smart mix?
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Find out exactly how long the NHS will take for your condition, and what targeted private spending could shave off the wait. No subscriptions. No referral fees. Free to use.
Hip, knee, shoulder, back, foot & ankle, sports injuries. Other specialties coming as we expand.
1. The problem
If you need non-emergency surgery — hips, knees, hernias, cataracts — the NHS will probably keep you waiting most of a year. Sometimes longer.
- 7.5 million people on an NHS waiting list right now
- 40 to 60 weeks is typical for non-emergency surgery
- It’s not bad luck. It’s the system
2. The smart mix
Most patients don’t realise the NHS bottlenecks are the things you can skip privately for a few hundred pounds.
- A private MRI is £250. An NHS MRI wait is often 3+ months
- A private consultation is £200. An NHS consultation wait is often 4+ months
- Add it up: £450 of private spending can shave 6+ months off your wait
Pay for the part that’s slow.
Stay NHS for the rest.
Same NHS surgeon at the end. Months saved in the middle.
3. What you get with Wait or Pay
A free personalised check. And a Custom NHS-Private Mix Blueprint: the step-by-step plan that can save you months of waiting, pain, and hassle.
Is the smart mix even worth pursuing for you? The free check tells you in about a minute.
Free. No signup. No catch.This is extraordinarily specific to you: your condition, your current stage in the NHS queue, your postcode, your trust, and the consultants your trust works with. A single wrong step — the wrong imaging centre, the wrong file format, the wrong person emailed — means a rejected scan, money spent, and no time saved at all. It is easy to get wrong. It is hard to get right.
Your Custom NHS-Private Mix Blueprint gives you everything above, built around your condition, your postcode, and exactly where you are in the NHS queue. For £19, it’s the most useful thing you can buy if you’re sitting on a waiting list.
- Which private imaging centres near you your NHS trust will actually accept scans from, and which ones it routinely rejects
- Which consultants' referral letters carry weight with your specific trust, and exactly how to get one
- Exactly who to contact at your NHS trust, what to send them, in what format, and how to confirm they've received and actioned it
- Pre-written correspondence for your GP, your NHS trust, and your private clinic. The right ask, the right tone, for each.
- The precise sequence: what to do privately first, what to hold for the NHS, and why the order matters
- The joining-up steps most people never figure out. The ones that turn private spending into months saved.
One-off £19. No subscription. Yours to keep.
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