When you need more, you're already in the right place.
Referral at MEDii isn't a letter and a goodbye — it happens during your visit. If we find something that needs more than our in-house care, your consultant opens the next door for you: back to the NHS, into a leading UK private hospital, or across borders — with your records, your language and your continuity of care handled.
- Decided with you, during your visit
- Your records travel with you
MEDii · Duke's Road, LondonWe know exactly what we can do — and who can do the rest
No clinic can do everything, and we'd never pretend otherwise. What sets MEDii apart is what happens at that boundary: we take pride in an extensive medical network in and beyond the UK — NHS services, leading private hospitals, regional partners and renowned international centres — with MEDii at the centre, holding your case together. One thing never moves: you. Your health and safety sit at the centre of every referral decision, so you always get care that is prompt, suitable and precise.
Prompt
The next step is arranged in days, not months.
Suitable
The right physician, the right institution, the right level of care.
Precise
Your diagnosis, records and history arrive before you do.
Two pathways. One standard of care.
Most referrals start the same way — something found during your MEDii visit, or a case you bring to us. Where it leads depends on what you need.
Within the UK
We collect your existing investigations and your consultant's observations into one clear clinical picture — then pass it to the physicians and institutions better suited, or with more advanced options, for your condition.
- Back to the NHS — With a concrete private diagnosis in hand, you enter NHS pathways assessed and fast-tracked, not starting from scratch.
- Up into leading UK private hospitals — 30+ partner hospitals
- Across the UK — Our regional partner network brings MEDii-standard care beyond London.
Continuity — Your MEDii consultant stays involved — results come back to a team that knows you.
Explore UK referralInternational
Based on your choice, your condition, your health and safety status and suitability — weighing cost and timeframe honestly — we facilitate care across borders, in both directions.
Continuity — Bilingual records, translated reports and a MEDii team that coordinates the medicine end-to-end.
MEDii handles the medical side. Travel, accommodation and itineraries are arranged by trusted partner agencies.
Inbound: treatment in the UK
Patients come to the UK — and to MEDii's network — for medicine that is hard to find anywhere else:
World-class medical excellence
Globally respected hospitals, consultants and clinical standards.
Cutting-edge therapeutics
Access to advanced treatments and clinical innovation.
The newest drugs and technology
Therapies often available in the UK and US years before elsewhere.
All-round wellbeing
Care plans that look after the whole patient, not just the disease.
Patient-centred care
Your questions, your consent and your comfort built into every step.
Why it matters
Some advanced cancer medicines are licensed and available only in the UK and US. For the right patient, access to these drugs — used in carefully managed combination, alongside genuinely holistic care — can reduce suffering and meaningfully improve quality of life. That is why patients cross the world to be treated here.
What MEDii does for inbound patients
- Pre-travel online second opinion
- Case review and acceptance by the right UK consultant
- Appointments and admissions coordinated before you fly
- Bilingual support throughout
- Reports translated for your doctors at home
Outbound: treatment beyond the UK
Sometimes the prompt, suitable, precise choice is abroad. For many of our patients that means China — and we say so openly, because the advantages are real:
A tech-powered system
Digital-first hospitals with strong availability of the latest digital therapeutics and diagnostics.
Cost efficiency
Comparable procedures at a fraction of UK self-pay prices.
Little waiting, abundant choice
Appointments and procedures in days, across multiple renowned centres.
Care as a journey
Treatment naturally combined with travel, retreat and rehabilitation — an all-round package, not just a procedure.
The honest maths
A self-pay endoscopy in the UK typically costs £2,500–£3,000 (MEDii's own combined gastroscopy + colonoscopy is £2,995). For roughly the same amount, an outbound patient can cover a return flight to China, five days' accommodation and local travel — and the endoscopy itself.
Illustrative — prices vary.
The hospitals we work with in China are renowned tertiary (三甲) centres and centres of medical excellence, backed by local government and health authorities.
What MEDii does for outbound patients
- Suitability and safety assessment by your MEDii consultant — travel only when it's clinically sensible
- Full medical dossier prepared and translated
- Receiving physician and institution matched to your condition
- Results reviewed back at MEDii when you return, so care continues seamlessly
Pre-travel Online Second Opinion
No one should cross a border on guesswork. Before any international referral — inbound or outbound — a MEDii consultant (or the receiving specialist) reviews your full case remotely and tells you plainly: what we'd recommend, whether travelling is worth it, and what it would involve.
- Structured review of your records, imaging and pathology (中文 or English)
- A video consultation with the right specialist
- A written opinion — diagnosis review, treatment options, recommended pathway
- An honest “stay where you are” when that's the right answer
From “we found something” to “you're in the right hands”
It starts in your visit
Your MEDii consultant finds something that needs more, or you bring a case to us. The conversation about next steps happens with you, immediately — not by letter, weeks later.
We assemble your case
Existing investigations, our findings, your history — one complete, organised clinical dossier (translated where needed).
We match the destination
NHS, UK private hospital, regional partner or international centre — chosen for suitability, advanced capability, timeframe and cost, with your safety as the deciding vote.
We hand over properly
Your dossier arrives before you do; appointments are confirmed; for international journeys, our partners arrange travel and accommodation while we handle the medicine.
We stay your centre
Results and discharge notes come back to MEDii; your consultant reviews them with you, and your long-term care continues with a team that knows the whole story.
At every step there is one phone number that answers: ours.
Language, support — and where we draw the lines
In your language
- Bilingual (English · 中文) coordination as standard — consultations, reports and handovers.
- Medical document translation: your records translated for receiving doctors; their reports translated back for you.
- Interpreting support for international consultations and admissions.
- More languages via our network.
Clear boundaries, by design
- MEDii's role is the medicine: clinical assessment, the dossier, the match, the handover, the follow-up.
- Transport, chaperoning, accommodation and itineraries are arranged by trusted partner agencies — each side doing what it does best.
- Costs are always itemised so you can see what is medical and what is travel.
Referral, answered
Will MEDii just refer me and forget me?
No — that's the point of this page. Your dossier goes ahead of you, your consultant stays involved, and results come back to MEDii so your care continues with people who know you.
Can I be referred back to the NHS?
Yes. A concrete MEDii diagnosis means you enter NHS care assessed, documented and on the right pathway — not at the back of the assessment queue.
How do you decide where to refer me?
Suitability first: your condition, your safety, the institution's capability — then timeframe and cost, discussed with you honestly. Your choice matters; your safety decides.
Is treatment abroad safe?
We only recommend travel when your consultant judges it clinically sensible — that's what the suitability assessment and pre-travel second opinion are for. The centres we work with in China are renowned tertiary (三甲) hospitals backed by local authorities.
What does a referral cost?
The second opinion and dossier preparation are chargeable service items (fees confirmed before you book); the receiving hospital's treatment costs are quoted to you directly and itemised separately from any travel costs.
I'm overseas and want UK treatment — where do I start?
Start with the Online Second Opinion: send your records, speak to the right specialist, and get a written recommendation before you commit to anything.
Tell us about your case
Patients
Book a consultation or request a second opinion — or WhatsApp us your situation (中文也可以。)
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In an emergency, always call 999 or go to your nearest A&E — referral is for planned care.