A private medical clinic is a clinic that individuals or an organization have set up to service the needs of patients looking to be seen medically outside the National Health Service. It usually consists of several medical doctors and provides either general or specialist medical care.
The National Health Service was created as a comprehensive public service in 1948. Since its inception it has become very busy with high numbers of patients on the NHS waiting lists, so many individuals opt to pay for medical services and see a private doctor. In addition many people have healthcare insurance policies either through their work or by personal choice, which will pay for their treatment, allowing the individual access to private healthcare. International visitors who wish to access the world-class medical services found in the UK and who are ineligible for NHS services can access the private clinics. Private clinics see patients from all over the world, offering world-class medical services to international medical “tourists”.
Harley Street is located the West End area of London that historically underwent a surge of development of fashionable houses in the 1800s. By 1860 many doctors started to relocate themselves to Harley Street due to the good housing quality and very convenient new transport links via the nearby Baker Street Tube Station and New Road, by then renamed Marylebone Road. Baker Street Tube Station had opened in 1863 corresponding to the upsurge in popularity of the new Harley Street area and Regents Park Tube Station was opened a little later in 1906 by BS&WR (Baker Street and Waterloo Railway), thus increasing patient access to the private medical facilities of Harley Street.
As more doctors moved to the Harley Street medical area, their colleagues followed. By 1912, both the Medical Society of London had opened in Chandos Street and the Royal Society of Medicine in Wimpole Street, asserting the area as London’s most prestigious medical hub.
Harley Street is recognized as being the hub of the Harley Street Medical Area, supported strongly by the Howard de warden Estate and consists of many different clinics and hospitals. https://harleystreetmedicalarea.com/ and https://harleystreetmedicalarea.com/medical-directory/clinica-london
There is a wide range of eye clinics in the area, from one-doctor eye clinics to fully serviced eye hospitals. Clinica London is a medium-sized private eye and skin clinic that links together eye and skin services under one roof and caters for both adults and children. It provides comprehensive diagnostic, treatment and surgery services on site for the various branches of ophthalmology and dermatology.
It is particularly challenging in London to find a private eye and skin clinic that caters for all age groups including children. We see children aged zero to 18 years, adults aged 18 to 65 years and above to almost 100 years. Furthermore, Clinica London is the only private ophthalmology clinic in the Harley Street hub with four orthoptists that cater to children´s vision and eye motility.
Clinica London’s ability to cater for urgent eye care helps patients who are looking for a rapid access eye clinic in London to address their issues quickly. There are eye hospitals that patients can go to, but if you would like to be seen by a top consultant in a quiet, relaxed environment, then Clinica London can accommodate same-day urgent eye problems.
Patients expect to receive a high level of care, to be seen on time and immediately be made to feel welcomed and safe. Patients expect to be given the opportunity to have all their questions answered and any referrals after the appointment done promptly. Clinica London has consultants in house who can address all possible eye conditions if a referral is required, which is what patients say is one of our uniqueness in the private medical ophthalmology field. Most small operations around your eyes and skin, and specialized eye procedures, are done safely and comfortably in our day case theatres.
Similarly, patients expect the highest level of care and prompt treatment, whether it be medical or surgical dermatology, for child or adult. This we provide in house from our two dermatology specialists, both of whom are trained in paediatric skin diseases as well as adult.
There are varying prices for services in the private eye and skin clinic sphere.
However, the spectrum is not very large, and as a rule of thumb, the more experienced doctors tend to charge a little more than newly practicing doctors.
The expense of a private clinic appointment is often a reflection of the high standard and cutting-edge technology that private clinics like Clinica London have. We offer full retinal, cataract, glaucoma diagnostic imaging with several highly technical imaging machines which detect the minutest of changes in your eye and vision. We have our own in house treatment operating room where many eye and skin treatments and surgeries can be safely performed.
On the treatment side we have an Optilight IPL machine not found in many other private clinics, that addresses the ever-growing problems people face from dry eyes. We have a state-of-the-art machine for cross-linking Keratoconus and several lasers for glaucoma, after-cataract, macula and retina treatments, equivalent to those found in the bigger hospitals.
Clinica London is fully CQC (Care Quality Commission) certified for assessment and treatment and surgery of eye and skin disorders in children and adults
The high level of service and technology qualifies the clinic as one the best private clinics in London. We are proud to be part of the Harley Street Medical Area and its long tradition of medical care, with our situated in the center of the Harley Street medical hub.
Telephone: 020 7935 7990
International Callers : +44 20 7935 7990
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