Your healthcare

A guide to the NHS, which provides most healthcare in the UK including GPs, dentistry and hospital services.

Most people get HIV treatment and care from a specialist HIV clinic in a hospital with check-ups usually every three to six months.

You are not obliged to tell your GP that you have HIV but there are good medical reasons to do so.

Good dental health is an important part of good overall health for everybody, particularly for people with HIV.

We are all entitled to fair treatment in healthcare and it is illegal to treat someone less favourably because they have HIV.

All staff working for the NHS must follow NHS rules on confidentiality, and could face disciplinary action if they don’t.

The rules about who can and who cannot get NHS treatment are complex, and often change.

Advice on what to do if there is a problem with your healthcare or if something has upset you.

You can now recommend GPs and dentists through I Want Great Care.

The Government has proposed changes to the structuring and commissioning of health services in the UK.