Where every price on this site comes from
How figures are collected, how often they are checked, what they include, and — most importantly — the limits of what they can tell you.
- Price records held
- 21
- Procedures covered
- 21
- International benchmarks
- 14
Read this before you rely on any figure here
What we actually hold
The dataset, stated plainly
- Price records
- 21One recorded range per procedure in most cases.
- Procedures covered
- 21Procedures with at least one recorded range.
- Records naming a city
- 1City-level comparison is not possible at this coverage.
- Records naming a facility
- 0No figure here is attributed to a named clinic or hospital.
- Oldest collection date
- 15 September 2026Prices move; older records move further.
- Most recent collection
- 15 September 2026When any figure was last refreshed.
Where they came from
- independently collected · 21 records
Provider-supplied means the range was published or quoted by the provider itself. It has not been audited against invoices, and a provider has an obvious interest in the number it publishes.
The rules
How figures are handled
- 01
Nothing is converted between currencies
A range recorded in pounds stays in pounds. Converting needs an exchange rate and the date it applied on, and we hold neither — a converted figure would look more precise than the underlying data.
- 02
Every figure carries its collection date
A price is a fact about a moment. Records are dated at collection and the date travels with the number wherever it is shown, so a stale figure is visibly stale.
- 03
What a package includes is recorded with it
A range covering surgeon, anaesthetist, hospital and follow-up is not comparable with one covering the surgeon alone. Inclusions are stored per record and shown beside the figure.
- 04
No averages across incompatible records
With roughly one record per procedure there is no distribution to summarise. We show the recorded range rather than compute a median that would imply a survey we did not run.
- 05
International figures come from national bodies
The UK figure is the NHS's published typical private cost; the US figure is the ASPS average surgeon fee. No agency, aggregator or clinic price list is used for the UK or US figures.
- 06
Providers do not pay to appear or to change a figure
Inclusion is never sold and no provider can alter a recorded price. Where a provider disputes a figure we re-check the source and correct it, or record the disagreement.
Limitations
What these numbers cannot tell you
- What you will actually be charged. Only a surgeon who has assessed you can quote you, and complexity changes the number.
- Whether a price is good value. A low figure may reflect a shorter operation, a different implant, or less aftercare.
- How prices vary by city. Too few records name a city for a city-level comparison.
- How prices vary by clinic. No record is attributed to a named facility.
- Revision costs. What happens if a second operation is needed is a contractual question for the provider.
- Anything about clinical quality. Price and outcome are not the same measurement.
If a figure here is wrong, we would rather know. How corrections are made.
Where to go next
Open costs
See the price records
Every range we hold, with its collection date and what it covers.
International comparison
Compare against the UK and US
Published national figures, with what each one includes.
Data sources
Where all our data comes from
Sources behind registers, provider records and prices.