What we do
TreatCompare is an independent UK private healthcare price comparison service. We help patients compare prices for treatments including hormone replacement therapy (HRT), laser eye surgery, dental work, hearing aids, IVF, and more, and we publish consumer information about UK and Australian regulated healthcare. We have no ownership stake in any provider, pharmacy, or clinic. Our goal is to make it easier for people to find transparent, comparable pricing from verified UK healthcare providers.
How we stay independent
We take no money from providers. Prices we collect are shown with the page they were read from and the date we read them, so you can check each one yourself.
No provider pays to be listed, ranked or placed, and none pays us a referral fee.
Where a provider publishes nothing we could read, we say so rather than estimate a figure. No provider reviews or approves anything before it is published, and a correction is checked against the provider's own page, not taken from what the provider sends us.
How we verify providers
Every provider listed on TreatCompare is verified against the relevant UK regulatory register before their prices appear on the site. We check:
- 1GPhC Register — All pharmacies are checked against the General Pharmaceutical Council pharmacy register to confirm they hold a valid registration.
- 2CQC Register — Healthcare services are verified against the Care Quality Commission register to ensure they are regulated and inspected.
- 3GMC Register — Clinics led by doctors are checked against the General Medical Council medical register.
Providers that cannot be verified or whose registration has lapsed are removed from listings. We re-check registrations periodically and flag any providers whose status changes.
Clinical review
Some patient-facing content is clinically reviewed by named registered clinicians. Our medical reviewer directory links each reviewer to their professional register where possible, starting with Dr Adaugo Nwachukwu, a GMC-registered GP. We only display page-level clinical review where that review has taken place.
How we collect prices
Prices are collected automatically from provider websites using our scraping infrastructure. We track publicly displayed prices and record them alongside details of what is included (such as consultation, monitoring, prescriber access, and blood tests).
Most price datasets are re-read monthly, and some weekly. Every price is dated so you can see when it was last read. A figure far outside what other providers charge for the same product is refused automatically rather than published.
Ordering, links and what we do not do
Tables are sorted by price or alphabetically, never by any commercial relationship. Some “visit provider” links go through our own outbound redirect, which counts clicks so we know which pages people use. If you think a link on the site earns us money, please tell us.
What we do not do: we do not display discount codes for prescription-only medicines, we do not pair brand-named prescription medicines with prices on Australian pages, we do not place buy-shaped CTAs on prescription-only medicine pages, and we do not accept payment to suppress or amend information about a provider's regulatory record.
Get in touch
If you have questions, corrections, or feedback, you can reach us through the contact page. If you are a provider and believe your listing contains an error, please include your GPhC or CQC registration number in your email so we can verify your identity.