A personal healthcare provider has launched a ‘Netflix-like’ service offering subscribers access to consultants within 48 hours.
The MyWay service, run by Circle Health Group, is a ‘first of its kind’ solution designed to help patients bypass NHS backlogs and appointment delays in the UK.
Subscriptions to the service start at £20 per month and require a minimum of 12 months of sign-up. However, only people who use the service for 30 days can request a quick meeting with consultants.
MyWay makes it possible to attend a GP session within a couple of days by making private appointments in addition to scans and blood tests can be found shortly after.
The service is being launched as advisers organized their first field trip in more than a decade this week.
A personal healthcare provider has launched a ‘Netflix-esque’ service that gives subscribers 48-hour access to consultants for £20 a month.
The MyWay service, run by Circle Health Group, is a “first solution” which aims to serve patients bypassing NHS backlogs and appointment delays in the UK.
The service is being launched as advisers organized their first field trip in more than a decade this week
Circle Health said the subscription service will allow people with welfare points to return to work in a short time, as additional workers are forced to stay at home due to long-term illness.
To join the service, sufferers have to complete an easy ‘five-box’ course, compared to the additional time-consuming forms required to purchase life insurance cover.
Paul Manning, marketing consultant surgeon at Nottinghamshire University Hospitals NHS Trust, who developed the service, instructed telegraph: “The patients we see now are particularly acute and less able to return to work.
“There is a huge lack of services in the UK for people who are concerned about long waiting lists keeping them out of the workforce but find private health insurance too expensive or difficult, particularly for self-employed people, small business owners or those with a pre-existing condition.”
Hundreds of senior doctors across England went on strike on Thursday in an ongoing pay dispute that could end by 7am on Saturday.
Thousands of surgeries, procedures and appointments have been canceled and are being rescheduled as a result.
It comes just two days after junior doctors staged a five-day strike, the longest in NHS history.
More than 24,000 consultants voted in favor of the union’s motion in last month’s British Medical Association (BMA) ballot, with an overwhelming majority of 86 per cent voting in favour.
The authority has instructed advisers they will receive a 6 per cent pay rise, but the BMA has branded this “ridiculous”, saying actual pay has fallen by more than a third over the past 14 years.
According to the BMA, consultants on a 2003 contract earn a starting salary of £88,364 as a basic salary, rising to £119,133 after around 19 years.
The Department of Health cited additional funding, similar to medical excellence awards, and the affordability money would increase total NHS consultant pay to £134,000 in 2023/24. year.