Costs of Laser Sweat Ablation - private self-pay, PMI and NHS

At the time of writing this website, the information below is correct. If things change, we will update this website as soon as the changes are brought to our notice.

Costs of Laser Sweat Ablation - Private 'Self-Pay'

We have set up the Laser Sweat Ablation as a 'package' price. Due to the success of our technique, we have been able to keep our overheads at a minimum and are able to price the 'package' at £3,450.00 for bookings from the 1st December 2010.

The 'package' includes:

• Initial sweat test
• Initial consultation
• Compression garment
• Laser Sweat Ablation procedure with Iodine and Starch test
• Post-operative follow-ups - usually 1 and 6 weeks, but more often if needed
• Post operative sweat test and iodine and starch test at 6 weeks

Therefore, unless there are any delays, or unless you want to have a consultation with sweat test first etc, this package price covers everything.

For those people who start the 'package' but are not suitable for the Laser Sweat Ablation, the consultation is £168 and the Sweat Test £62.

Any other treatment recommended as a result of the consultation and sweat test will be fully discussed and a quote can be arranged.

Private Medical Insurance

As this is such a new procedure, it has not been assessed by the Private Health Insurance companies (as far as we are aware) and so is not covered.

As we start to produce our results, there may be some interest in covering the procedure - however we would expect that there will not be cover from Private Medical Insurance for some time, and until good research from several centres has been produced and assessed.

Of course Private Medical insurance may decide to cover this procedure for some or all of their clients. If we are informed of any such decision to cover Laser Sweat Ablation at The Whiteley Clinic, we will be happy to put the information up here.

However in the meantime, we would expect that Private Medical Insurance will not cover this procedure and would warn you against expecting your insurer to cover it.

NHS - National Health Service

Similarly with the NHS, at the time of writing this website, we have not trained anyone from the NHS to perform this surgery.

When we do so, we will add their names to the site under the section of who is trained and who is current in their practice.

However, despite being trained, it will be up to individual hospital trusts and PCT's to decide whether they will fund this procedure or not. As with private insurers, we would expect that cover would not be provided until there is a body of research showing the advantages that we have already found in our patients.