Expert second opinions, delivered directly to you
You send us the records you already hold. A senior consultant in the relevant specialty at a leading Indian hospital reads the case and writes an expert medical review answering the questions you ask.
Reports are returned in five to seven working days.
Three steps, start to finish.
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Submit records
You upload the records you already hold — clinic letters, scans, pathology and laboratory reports — and write down the questions you want answered. If you are in England, much of this can be downloaded from the NHS App. Imaging usually has to be requested from the hospital that holds it.
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Specialist review
A senior consultant in the matching specialty reads the whole file. Where a case spans more than one specialty, more than one consultant reads it.
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Written report by email
The written report arrives by email, signed by the reviewing specialist. If something in it is unclear, you can write back once and the specialist will clarify at no extra cost.
What you receive.
One document, written to be read twice: once by you, once by your own doctor.
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A written report, signed by the reviewing specialist
It sets out what the specialist understood from your records, how they read the findings, and where their reading agrees or differs from the plan you already have. The consultant is named. Their Indian registration number is stated.
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Direct answers to your five questions
You write up to five specific questions when you submit the case, and settle them with your case manager. Each one is answered in turn, as its own numbered section. If a question cannot be answered from the records supplied, the report says so and says what is missing.
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A plain-English summary
A short section at the front, written without medical shorthand, so that you and your family can read the report without a clinician sitting next to you.
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Something you can hand to your own doctor
The body of the report is written for a clinical reader, with the sources in your own records referenced. You bring it back to the doctor treating you, and the two of you decide what to do with it.
What it costs.
Two prices, both stated here. You pay the fixed fee when you submit the case, so there is nothing to negotiate and nothing to find out later. If the records you send cannot support a useful review, we refund you in full.
£300
One specialist. Fixed fee, inclusive.
A single senior consultant in the relevant specialty reads the case and writes the report.
- Written report answering up to five questions
- Plain-English summary
- Reviewing specialist named, with registration number
- One round of written clarification, at no extra cost
- Returned by email in five to seven working days
£500
More than one specialist. Fixed fee, inclusive.
For cases that cross specialties, where two or more consultants need to read the file and agree a single written view.
- Everything in the standard review
- Two or more consultants, each named
- A combined written view, with any disagreement stated openly
- One round of written clarification, at no extra cost
- Returned by email in five to seven working days
Most cases are covered by the standard fee. If a case genuinely needs more than one specialist, we contact you before anything goes further and you can approve the difference or take a full refund. Where you decide you want to pursue onward hospital admission in India, we coordinate that pathway separately and quote for it separately. Full pricing detail.
The three things people ask first.
Is this legitimate?
Judge it on what is checkable. Every reviewing specialist is named on this site with their specialty, their hospital and their Indian Medical Council or State Medical Council registration number. Those numbers can be checked against the Indian register without going through us. The report you receive is signed by the named specialist. We are [[LEGAL_ENTITY]], registered at [[REGISTERED_ADDRESS]], company number [[COMPANY_NUMBER]].
We make no claims about outcomes anywhere on this site, and you will not find patient testimonials here. A written opinion is either useful to you and your doctor or it is not, and we cannot promise you which.
Will my own doctor accept it?
We cannot promise how your doctor will respond, and anyone who does is guessing. What we can do is write a report a clinician can actually use: structured, referenced back to the records you supplied, stating what was reviewed and what was not, and signed by a named consultant with a verifiable registration.
The report is not an instruction to anyone. It does not override, replace or second-guess the doctor treating you. It is a second reading of the same records, which you are free to bring to your own clinician and discuss.
What happens to my records?
Your records are transferred to India, where the reviewing specialist is based. That is an international transfer of health data outside the UK and the EEA, and we ask you to consent to it explicitly before you upload anything. If you do not consent, we cannot carry out a review.
Records are held encrypted, released only to the reviewing specialist and the named staff handling your case, and never sold, shared with insurers or used for marketing. You can ask us to delete everything at any point. The data controller is [[DATA_CONTROLLER]] and records are retained for [[RETENTION_PERIOD]]. Read the full detail.
Submit your case.
Send us the records you hold and pay the fixed fee. We match the case to a senior consultant, agree your questions, and the report comes back in five to seven working days. Refunded in full if the records cannot support a review.
Please read
This is not an emergency service
Do not use this site if you need urgent help. Contact your local emergency number or your own doctor. A case review takes days, not minutes, and we cannot respond to anything urgent.
Registration and regulation
The specialists who review cases are registered medical practitioners in India. They are not registered with, or regulated by, the medical regulator in your country. A report from Opinion 2nd is information for you to discuss with your own doctor. It does not replace them, and it does not direct your medical management.