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Everyone in the UK is entitled to free healthcare on the NHS, covering a wide variety of treatments and conditions. For various reasons, however, many people opt to have private surgery in one of the 230 independent private hospitals in the UK. These provide around 20% of non-urgent surgery in the ...
If you are born with sickle cell anaemia, it is usually diagnosed when you are a child as you start to show symptoms fairly early on. Sickle cell anaemia is an inherited disease; it is passed on from parent to child. If you have two faulty copies of the gene responsible, you will definitely ...
No clinical schizophrenia test that gives a definite diagnosis has yet been approved. It is therefore not currently possible to go along to your GP or to a hospital to have a simple schizophrenia test that can say whether you have this illness or not.
Around 10% of people have kidney disease in the UK. In most cases, kidney disease is mild and causes no symptoms, so it is possible to have some degree of kidney disease without being aware of it.
Judith Franklin has enjoyed her experience of Horton Treatment Centre so far and has written about her appointments leading up to her surgery in 2017.
Lynsey Swindlehurst, who works in security talks about her LASIK laser eye surgery at Advanced Vision Care (AVC) in Harley Street
Electrician Marcus Jones, talks about his LASIK laser eye surgery performed by Dr C T Pillai at Advanced Vision Care (AVC) in Harley Street.
Having lost the sight in his left eye as a young man, 54-year-old Rob was distressed when he developed a cataract in his right eye.
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