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Breakspear Hospital is open between 9:00am and 5:00pm Monday to Saturday, and is closed on all Sundays and public bank holidays.

If you are wishing to make an MMR vaccination appointment for your child, click here for further details. Note: our Immunisation Department is open for appointments Wednesdays and Saturdays, 9:00am to 5:00pm.

If, for any reason, a patient is unable to keep an appointment, Breakspear Hospital requests notification at least 24 hours in advance, in order that another patient (on the waiting list) can be offered the appointment and that staff time is used efficiently. In common with other practices, we reserve the right to charge a fee for a missed appointment, unless adequate notice is given.

After you have booked your appointment, Reception will send you an email and/or letter

and all the necessary forms for you to complete prior to your appointment. 

If you wish, you may also download and print out these pdfs documents from News & Dowloads > Downloads > New patient forms.  Please note: forms are different for patients under the age of 16.  If the new patient is under 16, please use the child patient forms.

Below you will find a general outline of Breakspear Hospital's prices.  As treatment programmes vary patient to patient, this is just a general basic price list. Our staff will explain all of the Hospital’s charges to you and you will be given printed estimates before any fees are incurred.

Your initial consultation must be paid for on the day of your visit. After your initial consultation, a treatment programme will be drawn up on the patient management sheet.

Our Patient Liaison staff will carefully explain all of the Hospital’s charges to you and you will be given printed estimates before any fees are incurred. If you have any specific questions regarding prices, estimates and treatment programmes, please contact one of our Patient Liaison Officers, by phone 01442 261 333 ext. 293, or email: liaison@breakspearmedical.com

Most patients attending Breakspear Hospital are not funded through the National Health Service (NHS) at their initial visit, and are, therefore, responsible for the settlement of their own accounts. For those patients with private health insurance, it is important to note that we do not have direct settlement agreements with the insurance companies. Our contract is with you, the patient, and we expect you to settle our accounts on receipt of invoice.

The simplest way to settle your bill is to provide us with your credit/debit card details when you arrive for your appointment. Fee consent forms have to be completed and signed by every patient, or the party taking responsibility for covering the costs of the patient’s treatment before the costs are incurred. You will receive a detailed invoice soon after your visit and your card will then be charged. Queries regarding any charges will be resolved with you forthwith. For patients attending for longer periods, we will raise invoices at regular intervals and charge accordingly.

If you do not provide us with your credit/debit card details you will be expected to pay your entire bill before you leave, and if you are attending for longer courses of treatment, 50% of the estimated cost must be paid in advance, the balance to be settled before you leave.

If you are seeking NHS funding, after your initial consultation and with your approval, we will write to your GP with details of any recommendations, and request their written support for an application for NHS funding.

With the written support of your GP and/or NHS consultant, we can compile an application for funding, which will include an estimate, and we will send the application to the relevant NHS funding body for their consideration. Without support from an NHS clinician, regrettably, we will not be able to continue to pursue the request for NHS funding.

Please note that the success rate of our NHS funding applications is currently below 10% and NHS funding bodies will not usually pay retrospectively. Therefore, if funding is approved, it will be for future treatment from the date of approval.

Please wear tops with short sleeves and preferably wear cotton clothes which have been washed in unscented washing materials such as bicarbonate of soda. If you are taking any drugs or medicines, please bring them with you and, upon your arrival, show them to the nurse in charge.

To find out where Breakspear Hospital is located and the address, go to Contact Us > Directions to find us.

On your arrival at the Hospital, report to Reception and a receptionist will assist you with the formalities of admission.

If you are visiting a consultant, a member of staff will direct you to the appropriate consultation room when available. If you have not been shown to a consulting room within 15 minutes of your scheduled appointment time, please inform Reception.

No visitors are permitted in the Testing Room without prior arrangement with the nurse in charge. Visitors who have not made a prior arrangement will have to be met in the Patients' Dining Room. All children must be accompanied by an adult. This is for the benefit of all patients and to avoid disturbance in the Testing Room.

As of 1 April 2009, patients may order prepared food from our new predominantly organic à la carte menu, with prices ranging from as little as £2 for side dishes and dessert.  The chefs will take your orders in the morning and discuss any specific dietary requirements.  We are continuing to offer our 3 course predominantly organic customised lunches for 12.50*.  We recommend and are able to provide a “rotation diet” as part of this catering service.

For people staying at the Guesthouse, evening meals may be pre-ordered from the Hospital kitchen and collected before 5:00pm. For patients not staying at the guesthouse, these made-to-order meals are available for £12.50*.

The following foods are available from our kitchen, but if other items are requested, which will incur an extra charge, we would be grateful if you could give our staff at least one week’s notice by contacting them on 01442 261 333 extension 318.

Meats: beef, chicken, duck, lamb, pork, turkey

Fish: cod, haddock, plaice, salmon

Vegetables/Beans: asparagus, broccoli, carrots, cauliflower, chickpeas, courgettes, green beans, green cabbage, kidney beans, leeks, mushrooms,onions, peas, potatoes, spinach, sweet corn and sweet potato

Salad foods:  beetroot, celery, cucumber, lettuce and tomatoes

Fruits:  apple, banana, clementine, melon, grapes, kiwi fruit, mango, orange, pear, plum, raspberries, satsuma and strawberries

Grains/Pasta:  bread (wheat), brown rice, corn pasta, millet, quinoa, white rice and wheat pasta

Dairy products:  cow’s cheese and cow’s milk

Beverages:  apple juice, coffee, green tea, selection of herbal teas, orange juice, orange squash, pineapple juice, soya milk and tea

Nuts:  almond, brazil, cashew, hazelnut and walnut

Oils:  olive oil and sunflower oil

Other:  egg (chicken)

 

(Fruits and vegetables may vary according to seasonal availability.)

For the comfort of all patients, mobile phones are not permitted in the ward. If you need to make a call, please use your mobile phone in the Reception area. Alternatively, there is a coin-only payphone in the Reception area. For patients staying at the guesthouse, Montrose, there is a similar payphone. These phones do not accept phone cards.

Wheelchair access is by the front door of the building. Primary treatment areas are all on the ground floor of the building.

For disabled patients staying at the Guesthouse, Montrose, special arrangements will need to be made by the patient if extra nursing is needed. Alternatively, a carer may accompany the patient.

In the event that the alarm sounds continuously while you are at Breakspear Hospital, a member of staff will advise you that it is not a drill, and that you should evacuate the building. Please leave all your belongings in the Hospital, and walk calmly to the exit to which you will be shown. All patients should assemble in the car park near the entrance to the car park and should remain there until advised that it is safe to re-enter the building.

Smoking is not permitted anywhere within the Hospital or the Guesthouse.

While under care at Breakspear Hospital, you will be provided with a list of all supplements prescribed for you during your stay and maintenance treatment after discharge.

If you wish to re-order pharmacy products, please go to our Prescriptions section which will explain how to re-order and provide an order form.

If you wish to re-order antigen vaccines, please go to our Instructions for Re-Ordering Antigen Vaccines section, which will explain how to re-order and provide an order form.

* Breakspear Medical Group reserves to right to alter prices without notice.
** Consultation rates start at these prices (for up to 1 hour), however, prices do vary for specialist physicians. Please confirm with Reception when booking your appointment.