REFER by Patient2Doctor
Months of not knowing who to book, ended with named consultants and a signed referral letter in your hand.
Start with a free call with an experienced GP. Then, if you want it all written down: five working days, £495 this week, normally £997. Or the cheaper option: post your case, a private consultant takes it, and for £50 each you get each other's details.
If he doesn't find you a consultant, there's no charge to pay. Urgent symptoms: 111 or 999.
The prices
Two ways in. Two prices.
£50
Direct Match. A private consultant, matched to you.
You post your case once, free. A private consultant reads it without your name and takes it. You pay £50 and the consultant pays £50. Only when both payments are in do you get each other's name, phone and email. Then you message, meet up, and agree the consultation fee between you. If only one of you pays, nothing is shared and the £50 comes back.
£495 £997
REFER. A GP finds you the consultant.
Dr Yogesh Patel, GP Partner, reads your case himself, decides the speciality from your actual clinical problem, names the consultants you need with a paragraph on why each one, and signs the referral letter. Five working days. £495 this week, normally £997. Once, and no percentage of the consultant's fee. Not delivered in five working days, refunded.
Both start with a free call. Either way the consultation itself, typically £150 to £300, is paid to the consultant, not to us.
The problem
You can pay for it. You still haven't booked.
You typed "private consultant London" into Google and got a wall of faces with five stars each. You rang a private hospital and the line offered you whoever had a slot on Thursday. You didn't book. That was three weeks ago.
I don't even know who to book with. They've all got five stars.
I'd pay for it tomorrow if someone would just tell me who's actually good.
I've been on this for months and I'm no further forward than the day I saw the GP.
The kind of thing people say before they call us. Written by us, not collected from a patient, so we won't dress them up as reviews.
There's a photo of the thing on your phone. There are blood results on the NHS app you don't understand. You don't know whether you need a dermatologist or a rheumatologist, and you're not sure you should have to.
Who reads your case
Dr Yogesh Patel, GP Partner.
An experienced NHS GP partner, and a doctor in London for over 24 years. MBBS, BSc (Hons), DRCOG, MRCGP. GMC 6064097.
One GP, reading it himself.
Patient2Doctor started as a marketplace. Like MyBuilder, for consultants. Patients post a case, verified consultants pitch, the patient shortlists one. That works if you already know which speciality you need.
Plenty of people don't. So REFER exists for the harder job: deciding the speciality from the actual clinical problem, then naming the people.
His name and his GMC number go on this page. Dr Yogesh Patel, GMC 6064097. Check him on the GMC register before you pay a penny.
This is an introduction, not a medical service. No advice, no diagnosis, no treatment here.
The offer
REFER by Patient2Doctor. £495 this week.
£495 until Friday 12 September 2026. After that it goes back to £997. Within five working days you get a folder from Dr Yogesh Patel, holding named people he'd send his own family to, the reason for each, and a signed referral letter you can email on Tuesday morning.
- A one-page case summary. Written twice on the same sheet, in your words and in clinical words.
- A care decision note. What you actually need next. A consultant, a physiotherapist, a nutritionist, a scan or a blood test, and what you don't need.
- Named people. Consultants, physiotherapists, nutritionists and other private healthcare. One paragraph each on why that person for this problem.
- A referral letter, signed by Dr Yogesh Patel.
- An appointment sheet. The questions to ask, and the investigations to expect.
If he doesn't find you a consultant, there's no charge to pay
- Not delivered within five working days of your case being complete, the £495 is refunded.
- If he doesn't find you a consultant, there's no charge to pay. He says so and refunds the £495 in full.
- If the person he names says it's the wrong fit, you get a re-referral, a new note and a new letter, free.
- Not guaranteed, and it says so in writing: any clinical outcome, any diagnosis, anyone's availability on a given date.
What he can point you at
Private consultants across every speciality. Physiotherapists. Nutritionists and dietitians. Investigations: scans, blood tests and imaging. Psychologists, podiatrists and the rest of private healthcare. The point is that you don't choose. He decides what your actual clinical problem needs, then names the people.
Doing this for someone else, a parent, a partner, a friend? You can. Their case, your account, their consent.
The cheaper option
Direct Match. £50, and a private consultant comes to you.
Not everyone needs the folder. If you already know roughly what is wrong and want a private consultant to read your case and come to you, this is the £50 route. You post the case once. A consultant takes it. You each pay £50, and only then do you get each other's details.
How it works
- Post your case. Free. What is wrong, how long, what you have tried, where you are.
- A consultant takes it. Verified consultants in that speciality are emailed at once. One reads it without your name, and decides it is one for them.
- Two payments, one each. You pay £50. The consultant pays £50. Both through PayPal.
- Details swap. The moment both payments are in, you see each other's name, phone and email.
- You talk. Message each other, meet up, and agree the consultation fee between you. Patient2Doctor takes no cut.
Said plainly, before you pay
- Nothing is shared until both of you have paid. One payment on its own reveals nothing to anyone.
- If only one of you pays, nothing is shared and that £50 is refunded.
- The £50 is the introduction fee. It is not the consultation fee. That is between you and the consultant, typically £150 to £300 for a first appointment.
- Every consultant sets up a profile, and their GMC number is checked against the register by Dr Yogesh Patel before they see a single case. Consultants join here.
- Introductions only. What happens at the appointment is between you and them.
Want the speciality decided for you, named people and a signed letter instead? That is REFER, above.
What can be arranged
Scans, tests and appointments, arranged for you.
Not everything needs a consultant. Sometimes what you need is a scan, a blood test or six weeks of physiotherapy. Dr Patel decides which, then arranges it.
What things cost
Almost all of this is free on the NHS. What you are buying privately is time. The NHS target for a diagnostic test is six weeks, and in January 2026 one in five people waiting for an ultrasound had waited longer than that. The median wait from referral to treatment was 13.3 weeks. Private ranges are typical UK figures published in 2026, not our prices and not a quote. London runs at the top of every range and the north east well below it. You get the real number for your actual scan, in writing, before anything is booked.
How you get one
- Tell him what's wrong. Leave your name and email. Your first call with him is free.
- He decides what's needed. A scan, a test, a therapist, a consultant, or nothing yet.
- You get the price in writing first. Nothing is booked and nothing is charged until you have seen the cost and said yes.
- He arranges it and signs the letter. You turn up. The clinic already has what it needs.
How private care actually works
Where the months go, and how you skip them.
Most people have never used private healthcare and assume it's the same route with a bill attached. It isn't. Here's the honest version.
- You don't wait for a referral slot. On the NHS your letter joins a queue before anyone reads it. Privately, the consultant's secretary books you directly, often the same week.
- The scan happens near the appointment, not months after it. Private imaging usually has capacity within days, so you often walk into the consultation with the result already in hand.
- You see the consultant, not the team. You get the named person you chose, for the full appointment, and the same one at follow-up.
- You can go back to the NHS afterwards. Paying privately for a diagnosis doesn't remove your NHS rights. Plenty of people pay to find out what's wrong, then have treatment on the NHS.
- The wrong speciality costs you the whole saving. Booking privately with the wrong specialist buys you an appointment and no answer. That is exactly the part this service exists to get right.
This is general information about how private care works, not medical advice about your situation.
Visiting the UK
Here on holiday or business, and something's wrong.
You're in the country for a fortnight, or a month, and you can't wait until you're home. You don't have an NHS GP. You don't know which private clinic is any good, and you can't ask a neighbour.
That's the same problem this was built for, with less time on the clock. Dr Patel decides what you need, names the people, and arranges it near where you're staying.
On your travel insurance
Read your policy before you assume anything. Most travel insurance covers emergency treatment, not planned private care, and many policies exclude anything to do with a condition you already had. Some will reimburse, some won't. Ring your insurer and get the answer before you spend money, not after. We give you an itemised invoice and a signed letter from a GP either way, which is what an insurer asks for.
Travel vaccinations
Travelling on from here, or heading somewhere that needs a certificate. Ask and we will tell you what you need, what still works at short notice, and what genuinely doesn't. A course usually needs six weeks to do its job, so the honest answer this close to a flight is sometimes no.
Typical UK ranges published by private travel clinics and pharmacies in 2026, not our prices and not a quote. Hepatitis A, typhoid and cholera are free on the NHS because they are the ones that would be a public health risk brought back into the country. Yellow fever, rabies, Japanese encephalitis and tick-borne encephalitis you pay for wherever you go. So the cheapest route is nearly always a mix: the free ones at your own GP, the rest privately. The same vaccine can differ by £20 to £40 between clinics in one postcode, so it pays to ring round.
Fit
Who this is for, and who it isn't.
For you if
- Something has been wrong for months and you want to get better quickly, with the best specialist.
- You can pay privately, and what frightens you is wasting the money on the wrong one.
- You don't know which speciality you need, and working that out is part of what you're paying for.
- You want your details to go to one doctor, not onto a board. Your details stay yours.
- You're paying for a parent, a partner or a friend. Their case, your account, their consent.
Not for you if
- Your symptoms are urgent. Ring 111, or 999. Don't wait on us.
- You're under 18.
- You're outside the UK.
- You'd rather pick a consultant off a directory yourself. Direct Match, above, is the nearer fit: the consultant comes to you.
- You already know your speciality and just want a letter. A private GP will write one for far less.
£495 this week, normally £997. Five working days. Three cases a week. Pay with PayPal.