private patient

British  

noun

1. a patient receiving medical treatment not paid for by the National Health Service

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Example Sentences

In Germany, potential reforms to private patient funding appear well progressed, analyst David Low says.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 11, 2026

The 52-year-old said he may need to raise at least £120,000 to pay for the treatment as a private patient.

From BBC • Feb. 5, 2024

But because its publications do not include all private patient data, the study would be ignored by the EPA when it considers permissible pollution levels.

From Scientific American • Oct. 24, 2018

It would also require paying doctors and nurses substantially lower salaries, using fewer new and high-tech treatments, and probably eliminating some of the perks of American hospital stays, like private patient rooms.

From New York Times • May 16, 2016

It furnishes the least satisfactory form of medical relief for the patient, less adequate than that he could obtain either as a private patient or as a hospital patient.

From Essays in War-Time Further Studies in the Task of Social Hygiene by Ellis, Havelock