Prices
A price appears only when a provider publishes it on its own website. An editor opens the provider’s page, reads the price and what it covers, and records the address of the page and the date it was checked. Each price on the site links to that page.
- We print the provider’s own description of what is included, such as “includes contrast and reporting” or “guide from price”.
- We do not use prices from comparison sites, forums, press articles or our own estimates.
- Where a provider publishes no comparable price, the page says “price on request”. We do not fill gaps with averages.
- National prices, such as a remote GP service, are labelled as national and are never presented as a local clinic’s price.
- Prices in this edition were checked on 9 November 2026. We recheck before each update and show the date on every page.
Provider profiles
Profiles use the Care Quality Commission’s register of active locations in England (HSCA Active Locations), downloaded on 9 November 2026 and used under the Open Government Licence v3.0. We show the location’s name, address, telephone, website, provider, registration date, regulated activities, service types and its latest overall rating with the date CQC published it.
- A provider appears on a treatment page only for a stated reason, which is shown beside it. That is either a published price we have checked or a CQC registration relevant to the treatment.
- Where registration does not confirm a specific treatment, the page says so and asks readers to check with the provider.
- Telephone numbers are shown only when the register’s number is complete.
- Listings are alphabetical. We do not rank providers or give them scores.
NHS figures
NHS waiting figures are NHS England’s official statistics, carried through from Waiting Times UK:
- MRI: Monthly Diagnostics Waiting Times and Activity (DM01), August 2026 data, published 8 October 2026. The figure is the share of people on the waiting list at the end of the month who had waited under six weeks.
- Eye care: Referral to Treatment waiting times for the ophthalmology treatment function, August 2026 data, published 8 October 2026. The figure covers all eye conditions, not just cataracts.
- GP appointments: Appointments in General Practice, published 29 October 2026. The figures show time from booking to appointment, not from when a patient first asked.
Each city is matched to its main acute NHS trust or trusts, and to its integrated care board for GP data. London is shown as three central London trusts rather than a single figure. We do not show a figure where no official one exists, as with blood tests and physiotherapy.
Automated checks
Every build checks that each price has a source and a date, that no page shows an empty figure, and that each city page carries enough facts of its own to be worth publishing. Pages that fail are held back from search engines.
Photographs
City photographs come from Wikimedia Commons under Creative Commons licences. Each is credited where it appears and lightly colour toned. We do not use stock images of doctors or patients.
Changes to this method
- 9 November 2026: first edition, covering five treatments and six cities.
- 9 November 2026: extended across the UK to 13 treatments, 82 cities and towns and 197 hospital and clinic profiles, adding hospital groups’ published national prices with what each one includes.
- 9 November 2026: added the dated record of when each page’s content last changed, used for the “last modified” dates we give search engines.