Where is the clinic, and how do I get there from St James’s?
99 Harley Street, W1G 6AQ: the Weymouth Street corner, in the medical district north of Cavendish Square. By car it is about ten minutes from the Square, up through Berkeley Square; on foot, thirty-two minutes through Mayfair; by Tube, one Jubilee stop from Green Park to Bond Street and a twelve-minute walk.
The full routes sit above, next to the live map.
How discreet is a visit?
As discreet as the street it sits on: an unmarked Georgian townhouse, appointments run to time so the waiting room stays close to empty, and the first and last slots of the day reserved for patients who prefer the building quiet.
Results go to your private portal and, only with written consent, to doctors you nominate. No letters home, no calls to switchboards.
Can you coordinate with my private GP?
Yes: this is routine for SW1: with your consent the consultant report goes to your GP or specialist the same day, and where they have requested the scan we report against their exact question.
Equally, if you would rather keep the loop to yourself first, the report is yours alone until you say otherwise.
Do I need a referral?
No: book directly, online or by phone. Many St James’s patients come on their own initiative for the checks their schedule has deferred; others come the same day their GP suggests imaging.
Where a scan clinically needs a conversation first, it is arranged within the booking, not as a separate errand.
Can I be seen the same day?
Often, yes: same-day and next-day appointments run across most scan types on weekdays. A concern raised at breakfast can generally be scanned before the afternoon’s first meeting.
Call 0203 904 4441; reception will tell you honestly what today holds.
What are your opening hours?
Monday to Friday 8am to 8pm, Saturday 8am to 6pm. The 8am appointments suit the pre-office habit; the evening ones absorb the days that overrun; Saturday exists for diaries that own the week.
If a timing genuinely will not fit, ask, the diary bends further than most.
What does an executive health check involve here?
Imaging done properly rather than a conveyor belt: the areas that matter for you, typically abdominal organs, thyroid, and men’s or women’s health, scanned by the relevant specialists in one unhurried visit, with a written baseline report you keep.
Tell reception what you want covered and a clinician will shape the right combination before you book.
Is there parking, or somewhere for a driver to wait?
Short-stay bays sit on Weymouth Street and the mews around the clinic, and drivers wait there daily; the Q-Park Harley Street car park covers longer stays. The clinic is inside the Congestion Charge zone.
Appointments run to time: a twenty-minute scan is a twenty-minute wait, not an afternoon.
Why not a hospital’s private wing?
For outpatient ultrasound, the wing adds corridors, not quality: the consultants here hold the same NHS teaching-hospital posts, the equipment is the same grade, and the visit takes forty minutes of your day rather than half of it.
Where a finding genuinely needs a hospital, we say so at once and write the referral. That is the honest division of labour.
Do you see patients visiting London?
Constantly: St James’s hotels and clubs put us ten minutes from many of them. Everything is designed to complete in one visit: scan, explanation, and the written report on your portal the same day, readable from any country you wake up in.
Reception can time an appointment to a flight or a train with a comfortable margin.
How quickly do results come?
The consultant explains the findings in the room, and the written report reaches your secure portal the same day, with copies to any doctor you nominate.
If something needs acting on, you leave with the plan and the letter, not an instruction to chase one.
How much does a scan cost?
Fixed, published prices: from £160, with most diagnostic ultrasounds between £250 and £350 including the consultant’s report. No postcode premium, no additions on the day.
All major insurers are accepted; direct settlement is equally simple and, for this postcode, usually quicker.
Can I walk in without an appointment?
We ask you to book first, even if that is a phone call from St James’s ten minutes before you set off: it means a consultant and a room are ready for you rather than a wait. Same-day slots are released through the morning, so call 0203 904 4441, tell us what you need, and reception will usually find you a time that day.
Who performs the ultrasound?
A consultant radiologist, a doctor who specialises in imaging, or a senior specialist sonographer for pregnancy and gynaecological scans, never a trainee. The person holding the probe explains what they see as they scan, so you leave St James’s-bound already knowing the findings, and the written report is theirs too.
Which scans can I book near St James’s?
Every scan on this website is at 99 Harley Street, so from St James’s you have one address for pregnancy scans, breast ultrasound and the breast clinic, pelvic and gynaecological scans, thyroid and neck scans, abdominal and kidney scans, joint and sports injury scans, ultrasound-guided injections, and children’s scans. Each has one page and one fixed price; use the search at the top of the page or call us.
How long is the wait for a private ultrasound compared with the NHS?
NHS waits for a routine ultrasound vary from a few weeks to several months depending on the hospital and the urgency your GP assigns. Here, same-day and next-day appointments are usually available, the findings are explained before you leave, and the report is on your portal the same day. From St James’s that means a worry can be answered the day you decide to act on it.
