Be Cared For In Luxury

Whether you have individual or company medical health insurance or you pay up front for private health care you will be guaranteed several things if you need a hospital stay:

Cleanliness
A private hospital will have extremely high standards of cleanliness. Your providers will not be having to penny-pinch and cut corners. You will more-than-likely have your private room damp dusted everyday and know that after the last occupant of your room left, they will have scrubbed your room from top-to-bottom. Clean, freshly laundered towels are provided every day for you to use.

Research results have shown that fears about NHS cleanliness is the top reason that people have for choosing to take out private health insurance. Fears over MRSA and c-difficile are very real.

High Staff Ratio
In a private hospital you will have a higher staff to patient ratio. You can be assured of receiving attention and care as and when you need it. NHS wards are often understaffed, leaving patients having to wait too long for essential care.

A Private Room
Being able to recover peacefully in hospital is very important and so is privacy. Studies have shown that recovery is quicker when patients feel more comfortable. Having procedures performed behind a thin curtain can be particularly embarrassing for people and confidentiality is always an issue as consultants and nurses have to speak to patients in front of others when they do their NHS rounds.

Good Food
NHS food is notorious for being unappealing. In a private hospital you will receive nutritionally balanced, interesting and tasty food, more akin to a restaurant than an institution. A report for the consumer organisation Which? Found that a third of people who had had NHS hospital food in the last twelve months were unhappy with it.

Luxurious Facilities
In a private hospital you will have your own, clean, private room with plenty of storage space, a private bathroom and a TV. It will be peaceful and will feel more like a hotel than a hospital. You will be able to keep in touch with the outside world easily. Usually there will be Wi-Fi and you will always have you own telephone so that you can keep in touch with family and friends whenever you want. Your choice of Newspaper will be delivered to your room every day.

Visiting Times
Research has shown that being able to keep in touch with family and friends is very important for patient recovery. Because a private hospital provides private rooms then the restrictive rules of NHS hospital visiting times are not necessary. As long as the doctors and nurses think its medically wise to allow you to have visitors there is usually a lot of leeway as to when they can come.

Additionally, Your visitors will also be treated well as they can be served with refreshments in your room and do not have to rely on a busy canteen or corridor vending machine.

Many private clinicians also work in the NHS so your care in both establishments will usually be exemplary. Both nurses and doctors are trained to high standards in the NHS however, in private medical care they will have more time to attend to your medical and private needs. You will also have the luxury and high hygiene standards around you that provides the psychological peace of mind that will help for a speedier and more pleasant recovery.