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 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.
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).
Price data is updated regularly — in most cases weekly for provider price datasets. Every price point is time-stamped so you can see when it was last checked. We also run automated outlier detection to flag prices that appear unusually high or low, which are then manually reviewed before being displayed.
Our editorial independence and commercial relationships
No provider pays for placement, ranking or featured positioning on TreatCompare. Listing order is determined by price by default — the lower-cost verified provider appears first. Our editorial content is produced independently and is not reviewed or approved by any provider before publication.
We do operate a separate referral programme: some “visit provider” links on TreatCompare go through our own outbound redirect, and a subset of providers have a commercial agreement under which TreatCompare may receive a referral fee when a visitor completes an action with that provider. These commercial agreements do not affect a provider's position in comparison tables, the calculator outputs, the price we display, the source label, or our methodology. Referral-fee links are flagged on the page where they are used. The terms we offer providers are documented in our advertiser data-protection summary; if you spot a link that you believe should be flagged and is not, 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 at hello@treatcompare.com. 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.