Private Healthcare UK Launches Online Patient Reviews

Main Category: Health Insurance / Medical Insurance
Also Included In: IT / Internet / E-mail
Article Date: 17 Sep 2008 - 4:00 PDT

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Private Healthcare UK - the UK's largest online healthcare guide that helps people make informed decisions about all aspects of private healthcare services and providers is launching a Ratings and Reviews service.

This new Ratings and Reviews service will enable potential patients to find out about the experiences and opinions of patients and health insurance consumers when considering their private healthcare options. The service has been introduced to enhance the already comprehensive information and guides provided on the site for those researching all aspects of private health care services including private hospitals, private doctors, specialists and health insurance companies.

Private Healthcare UK has been established for ten years and currently has 400,000 visitors a month. Keith Pollard, Managing Director of Intuition Communication Ltd who owns the site says.

"The Ratings and Reviews service is intended to further inform patient choice in the private healthcare sector. Peer endorsement is very important to people considering private healthcare services. Our goal is to provide clear, easy to understand information and the introduction of the Ratings and Review service will benefit patients who are looking to find out even more details about treatments, hospitals, clinics, and services from people who have experienced it for themselves."

The technology behind the Ratings and Reviews service is supplied by Bazaarvoice, whose clients include leading national and international brands like Dell, Early Learning Centre and Hewlett Packard and the service is available through Private Healthcare UK and on a dedicated reviews site - http://www.privatehealthcare.co.uk

- Example of Ratings and Reviews implementation on Private Healthcare UK main site:

http://www.privatehealthcare.co.uk/ private-hospitals/hospitaltreatment-findahospital/ private-hospitals-directory/?EntryId16=26364

- Example of Ratings and Reviews implementation on Reviews site: http://www.privatehealthcare.co.uk

- Further information on the Ratings and Reviews system: http://www.privatehealthcare.co.uk/reviews/

Notes

Private Healthcare UK is a one-stop gateway to all aspects of private health care services, including private hospitals, private doctors and specialists. The website's Patient Advice and Education area contains information about operations and procedures and diseases and medical conditions. It also has many useful guides to various aspects of private treatment including a "Guide to Going Private" and "Questions to ask your doctor before an operation."

About Intuition Communication

Intuition Communication publishes some of the UK's most visited healthcare information sites including Private Healthcare UK, Treatment Abroad, and:

- http://www.harleystreet.guide.co.uk - provides comprehensive information about this world famous area of medical excellence.
- http://www.self-help.org.uk - a searchable database of over 1,000 self help organisations and support groups across the UK.
- http://www.treatmentabroad.com - the UK's leading guide to health and medical tourism, covering over 40 destinations worldwide.
- http://www.treatmentinhungary.net- a health tourism site with a specific focus on Hungary.
- http://www.treatmentincyprus.com - a health tourism site with a specific focus on Cyprus.
- http://www.treatmentinspain.com - a health tourism site with a specific focus on Spain.

About Bazaarvoice

Bazaarvoice offers outsourced technology, hosting services, analytics and expertise to help brands enhance the online shopping experience with social commerce applications that drive sales.

Launched by web analytics pioneer and Coremetrics founder Brett Hurt in the US in 2005, Bazaarvoice's stable of over 160 clients include Dell, Early Learning Centre, figleaves.com, Hewlett Packard and Timberland. Bazaarvoice Ratings and Reviews and Ask & Answer™ products help brands to maximize the impact of user-generated review content through customisation, deep integration, community management, advanced analytics, search engine optimisation and syndication across the Web. Bazaarvoice's services empower consumers to share honest opinions and influence each other to make more informed and rewarding purchase decisions. Bazaarvoice was named Marketing Innovation of the Year in the 2006 US ClickZ Marketing Excellence Awards and one of the 'Red Herring 100 Global' in 2007.

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