PatientChoice : PatientChoice Access

Product profile

Description

• Puts you in charge of your healthcare, giving you choice and control, when you require an operation or medical procedure

• Also covers scans and consultations

Age

18 to 79

How it works

• Each activity has a certain budget allocated to it

• The budget is designed to cover your expected private treatment costs and you will have that budget to spend on your care

• You keep any savings if you get treatment cheaper than the budget 
   

Benefits 

• Medical procedures requiring a general anaesthetic

• Medical procedures requiring a regional or local anaesthetic in conjunction with an incision involving a surgical knife  

• Endoscopic (fibre-optic) procedures

• Angiography and angioplasty (treatment of blood vessels)  

• Chemotherapy and radiotherapy (following an operation)

• Specialist consultations

• MR/CT/PET scans

• Cash benefit if you choose to use the NHS

• Treatment sourcing service
   

Not covered

• Pre-existing conditions

• Accident and Emergency care

• Pregnancy-related procedures

• Organ transplants

• Cosmetic surgery

• Chemotherapy or radiotherapy not connected with cancer surgery.

• Treatment outside the UK