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ColverstonMedical Advisory

Approach

Disinterested, specific, and written down.

An assessment is only worth having if the person making it has nothing riding on the answer. Everything that follows is built on that.

Independence

Structural, not a promise.

Referral fees are ordinary in this sector. A clinic pays for an introduction, a concierge service takes a percentage, an agency is retained by the very providers it recommends. None of this need be improper, and a good deal of it is disclosed. It does mean that advice reaching a client is rarely free of interest.

Colverston is paid by its clients and by nobody else. We hold no stake in any clinic, practice, or manufacturer, and we accept no payment for an introduction. Our advisors are paid by us, at a rate that does not vary with what they conclude.

The work

What an assessment covers.

The intervention, and its alternatives
What is proposed, what else would achieve a comparable result, and what happens if nothing is done. The last of these is a real option and we treat it as one.
The evidence
What the published literature establishes about the procedure and at what level of confidence — and, as often matters more, what it does not establish.
The practitioner
Training, specialty relevance, regulatory standing, and experience of the specific procedure rather than of surgery in general.
The setting
Where the procedure would be carried out, the anaesthetic arrangements, and what provision exists for complications and for aftercare once the client has gone home.
The plan
Timelines, realistic recovery, what revision would involve, and what the client should expect at each stage rather than at the best stage.
Market context
What the option costs across the market, drawn from independent pricing evidence we gather ourselves, and what price does and does not indicate about quality.

Limits

What we do not do.

We do not diagnose, treat, or prescribe, and we do not act as anyone's doctor. Our advisors work in an advisory capacity; responsibility for a client's care rests with their treating clinician throughout, and we say so to every client at the outset.

We do not promote particular treatments, clinics, or surgeons, and we do not guarantee outcomes. Where the honest answer is that the evidence is weak, or that the question is finely balanced, that is the answer the client receives.

Discretion

A working condition, not a courtesy.

We publish no client names, no case studies, and no testimonials, and we will not confirm that any person is or has been a client. Engagements are documented in writing and held to the minimum record that competent advice requires.

Enquiries

Office
London