Private referrals
Newmarket House accepts private referrals for both inpatient care and day treatment (whereas we are only commissioned by the NHS to provide inpatient treatment). We have strong clinical relationships with private GPs and specialised private eating disorder services, allowing private patients to step up to and subsequently step down from intensive treatment at Newmarket House seamlessly as part of their broader recovery trajectory.
Newmarket House has two private treatment pathways:
Comprehensive Residential Pathway
This pathway is the most appropriate for patients requiring a sustained period of residential treatment before they are physically and psychologically ready to manage at home. In the Comprehensive Residential Pathway, patients complete the four stages of the Newmarket House treatment programme on an inpatient basis, to include periods of leave during the latter stages of their admission. As with our work with NHS providers, we liaise closely with private patients’ community clinicians at every stage of their admission. Patients’ community providers are invited to regular treatment update and planning meetings throughout their stay and discharge plans are coordinated with them to ensure that patients have the support they need to sustain and build upon their work at Newmarket House once they return home.
Stepped Care Pathway
This accelerated programme involves rapid progression from inpatient care to day treatment and intensive outpatient services. In the Stepped Care Pathway, patients move through the same four stages of treatment as in the Comprehensive Residential Pathway and have access to the same treatment interventions (e.g., psychiatry, specialist nursing care, psychological and occupational therapies, family therapy, our therapeutic group programme, neurodiversity assessment and dietetic support) but complete the majority of their treatment on a day- and outpatient basis. This gives them opportunities from early in treatment to practise the skills they are learning and embed the changes they are making in their home context. It also helps patients address challenges from their lives at home that may be contributing to their difficulties from early in their care.
The pathway is designed to be flexible and tailored to patients’ individual needs. However, for illustrative purposes the following diagram outlines a typical treatment course:
The Stepped Care Pathway is not suitable for everybody. It requires patients to be in a position to achieve medical and psychological stability over the course of a brief inpatient admission and to use this time to establish the recovery foundation necessary to continue their progress from home on a day treatment basis. Steady tapering of day treatment to outpatient support and subsequent discharge from the programme require both growing psychological resilience and access to robust aftercare resources to help sustain recovery.
Cost and Access to Private Treatment
The current self-pay prices for treatment at Newmarket House are £250 for pre-admission assessment, £545 per day for inpatient treatment, £345 per day for day treatment and £250 per week for outpatient psychological and occupational therapy (typically one to two sessions per week, in addition to ongoing monitoring by the wider multidisciplinary team). By way of example, the total cost of the 24-week Stepped Care Pathway treatment outlined above would be £27,480.
Health insurance coverage for inpatient eating disorder care varies by policy and insurance provider. We advise prospective patients with private health insurance to contact their insurance companies for more information about the treatment costs their insurance plan will cover.
Where clinically appropriate, patients may be able to enter the Stepped Care Pathway as day treatment patients rather than first completing a period of inpatient care. Please note, we currently only have capacity to offer outpatient psychological and occupational therapy as step-down treatments following inpatient and day treatment care, not as stand-alone treatments.
We recognise that paying for private treatment is a significant financial commitment and that, where feasible at all, inpatient and day treatment may only be possible for most families as relatively brief interventions. We see our treatment programmes as providing one part of a larger treatment pathway and recovery process. For every prospective patient, we conduct a detailed assessment to determine whether the proposed admission plan is a good match for their current needs and goals and what resources are in place for them to continue their progress following discharge. We will only offer an admission at Newmarket House if we consider that the treatment we can offer in the proposed timeline can contribute meaningfully to somebody’s longer-term recovery.
If you have questions about private referrals, please contact our Operations Director Andrea Ramsden or Administrator Sarah Elden at 01603 452226.
