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The UK Patient's Survival Guide: How to Navigate the Health System, Know Your Rights and Get the Treatment You Deserve 2026 edition

by Claire Donley
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9798258664136
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Independently Published
  • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published
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  • Pages: 124
  • Original Price: GBP 7.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 177 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Reference

The NHS is one of the most complex things most of us will ever have to deal with. And nobody tells you how it works.

Millions of people in England are struggling to get a GP appointment, watching referrals disappear, living with conditions that have taken years to be taken seriously, trying to get mental health support for themselves or their children, or simply sitting on a waiting list with no idea what they are entitled to do next.

If any of that sounds familiar, this book is for you.

The UK Patient's Survival Guide is the plain English handbook that nobody gives you when you enter the NHS system - written not by a doctor, but by someone who watched people struggle to get the care they needed and spent years paying close attention to what worked.

Inside you will find:

- How to get a GP to take you seriously and not leave empty-handed
- How referrals really work and what to do when yours disappears
- Your legal rights as a patient, explained in plain English
- What to do when the 18-week waiting time standard is breached
- The conditions most likely to face years of diagnostic delay - including endometriosis, fibromyalgia, ME/CFS, lupus, ADHD and autism - and the strategies that actually help
- How to make a complaint that gets results without damaging the relationships you need
- How to access mental health services and what to do when CAMHS says no
- What to do in urgent situations and when to call 111 instead of going to A&E
- How to advocate for someone else as a carer - including your rights when a hospital wants to discharge someone into your care
- The prescription and dental charges most people overpay for without ever realising they don't have to

This book won't fix the NHS. But it will give you the knowledge, the language, and the confidence to get more out of it than you did before you picked it up.

Because you have more rights than they told you. And knowing how to use them changes everything.

Fully updated for 2026. Evidence-based. Written for the person in the waiting room, not the person behind the desk

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