Colonoscopy is a procedure to look inside your large bowel. It’s used as a cancer screening test and to investigate symptoms affecting your bowel. Here we share several guides to help you understand the procedure, how to choose your consultant and hospital and what you would need to do to prepare for a colonoscopy.
How might a colonoscopy affect me?
Our Patient Insights Explorer shows how private hospital admissions, length of stay and safety incidents in the UK vary by patient characteristics, such as age, gender, ethnicity and pre-existing conditions.
Built with patients in mind, the Explorer presents clear, plain English summaries and interactive charts covering three areas of care:
- Admissions (how often people are admitted to private hospitals)
- Stays (how long people stay in private hospitals) and
- Incidents (safety related events currently including surgical site infections), with simple filters for nation and payment method (self-pay or insured).
What it means
This means you can look at results that match your own situation. For example, if you’re in your 60s and are planning on paying for your colonoscopy yourself, you can see how others like you did.
The goal is to make private healthcare information easier to understand, so you can feel more confident when making choices about your care.
