'The greatest wealth is health.' ~Virgil

'Take care of your body.  It's the only place you have to live.'  ~Jim Rohn

'Your body is a temple, but only if you treat it as one.'  ~Astrid Alauda

Mr Moore provides a private practice service for those who wish to have all of their medical consultations and any operations or interventions conducted personally by Mr Moore himself, an experienced accredited specialist consultant surgeon.  Private practice can offer individual patients and clinicians a level of excellence in medical care that other healthcare sectors may be unable to provide.  Private patients usually enjoy much greater choice and flexibility in the timing of any consultations or operations.  Private practice also provides for those who wish to guarantee that their hospital stay is in a clean private room with private washing and toilet facilities.

Mr Moore offers regular private practice consultations and treatment at the Nuffield Health Hospital Brighton and the Nuffield Health Hospital Haywards Heath.

Patients are advised that they cannot usually be seen or treated by specialists without a referral, usually from a general practitioner (GP).  Therefore they should ideally make an appointment to see their local doctor first if they have any medical problem.  Patients should make sure that they let their GP or other specialist know if they have a preferred surgeon such as Mr Moore.  This is because GPs and other specialists are usually happy to honour patient's specific choice of consultant surgeon for private referrals.  A patient's local doctor will then make a referral to Mr Moore if they feel it is appropriate.

In contrast to private referrals to a named consultant specialist, NHS referrals are made to a team of consultants and non-consultant healthcare workers so NHS patients do not know which specific doctor or nurse will be seeing them in the NHS clinic.  NHS patients subsequently put on the waiting list for a procedure should also note that it may well be a different member of staff, who the patient has never met before, who operates on them on the day of surgery.  These changes have been introduced in to the NHS to try to reduce waiting times and to increase patient throughput.

Mr Moore will accept UK or foreign self-referrals from patients but these patients should be aware that he will advise them that their GP or local doctor should be kept fully informed of any consultation or subsequent medical management.  Such self-referring patients should telephone Mr Moore's private secretaries directly.  A private consultation can then be arranged.

Mr Moore has a dedicated private practice team of secretaries working office hours Monday to Friday (not weekends).

The best time to phone them to book a consultation or for advice is in the morning and the telephone number is:

01273 627 059 (if phoning from the UK)

00 44 1273 627 059 (if phoning from abroad)

Private referrals can also be faxed to 01273 627 050

Should the secretaries be busy when you phone then please leave a short message and your telephone number on the answer machine and one of Mr Moore's experienced secretaries will phone you back as soon as they can.

Mr Moore usually undertakes his private practice sessions on Wednesdays and Thursdays but please let his secretary know if this is not convenient and individual requests can always be entertained.

Payment for Mr Moore's private practice services can be made by cash, cheque or credit card.  Mr Moore's secretaries will accept payment from all major credit and debit cards by people in person or over the phone.  The credit cards accepted include VISA, MasterCard, American Express, Maestro and Solo.

Please contact Mr Moore's secretaries by phone or mail if you would like to find out the current costs of private consultations and treatments.  Privately insured patients are welcome and also those patients who are self-paying.  All of the private hospitals that Mr Moore is associated with offer a fixed price service whereby a fixed price for surgical treatment can be agreed with patients before their treatment commences.  This method gives patients the reassurance that they should not be expected to pay for some additional costs for extra unforeseen treatments needed during their hospital stay.  Further details about fixed price schemes can be obtained from the individual hospitals (see links below).

It is advised that communication with Mr Moore's team is currently better by phone or fax or post rather than e-mail because a large number of e-mails are received every day by the office and your own e-mail correspondence may be lost amongst multiple junk e-mails.

'Any person who needs to undergo surgery is strongly advised to seek out and secure the best possible surgeon that they can.  By its very nature surgery has to cause some injury to the human body in order to effect its benefits and in my opinion a good surgeon will always do their utmost to conduct the most meticulous surgery possible.  If surgery is performed poorly then it can leave a patient with a lifetime of pain and complications.  No operation is too minor or insignificant.  No surgery can as yet come with a 100% complication-free guarantee but it is completely reasonable for a patient to ask any prospective surgeon about their training, operating experience and complication record.  I passionately believe in meticulous and minimally traumatic surgery and I am very happy to discuss medical management and surgical operations with anybody who believes in putting their one and only body first.' Etienne Moore