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If I were you, I would price this up VERY carefully.
I have a private GP in London. He is in Sloane Stret and he doesn't do any NHS work at all. However, when my IUD needed changing, he insisted that he and I both went to the Lister Hospital for the purpose. According ti him, the Lister is more sterile than his surgry etc etc. Load of nonsense. How can you sterilise a carpet? He had two nurses in attendance throughout and the whole job took about 40 minutes because they gave me a cuppa halfway through procedure.
However, it cost an arm and a leg! The Lister charged the doctor for the use of their facilities, and he passed the whole of that cost, as well as his own fee, straight on to me. The next time it needed doing, I went to my local NHS GP! No frils but no bills either!
At least one of the Panel Doctor groups in London (Not the same group as the ones I sometimes use) also do no NHS work and they do the meds at the Cromwell Hozzy, which also does visa x-rays. The price to the applicant can be double that of the cost of getting the x-rays done at a local BUPA hozzy like the one in Southampton. I don't think there are any GPs round here who aren't NHS GPs first and foremost and who just do Panel Doctoring as a sideline. They tend not to have many private patients apart from visa-applicants, plus they don't need to charge you for the use of their own surgeries for the meds.
I would ring round and get prices before you decide where to get your meds done, lassie.
Cheers
Gill
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