Moorgate
Circle, Metropolitan, Hammersmith & City, Northern
one direct train to Great Portland Street, roughly ten minutes, then five minutes on foot. The shortest total journey from the City.
One direct train from Moorgate, then a five-minute walk. Examined, scanned and told the same morning.
Tell us what you need and we will come back to you the same working day.
At 146 Harley Street, W1G 7LD, around three miles west of the City. One westbound Metropolitan line train from Moorgate or Liverpool Street reaches Great Portland Street in about fourteen minutes, five from the door. A one-stop appointment covers consultation, imaging and results in a single visit.
The City is further from Harley Street than most of the areas we serve, and easier to reach than several of the closer ones. Moorgate and Barbican sit on the same line as Great Portland Street, which is five minutes on foot from our consulting rooms at 146 Harley Street, W1G 7LD. A same-day one-stop breast clinic appointment runs sixty to ninety minutes from arrival to the results discussion, so the whole thing fits comfortably before the working day starts.
Almost everyone we see from EC1, EC2 and EC3 is working within a few streets of where they set off, and the appointment has to fit around that. It is worth knowing that a one-stop attendance is designed to be the only visit you need unless a biopsy result is pending. If somewhere nearer home is easier, all our London locations are listed in one place.
The counter-intuitive point about travelling from the City is that the slower train wins. The Circle, Metropolitan and Hammersmith and City lines run from Moorgate and Barbican directly to Great Portland Street, a hundred metres or so from Harley Street, while the faster Elizabeth line drops you at Bond Street with a twelve-minute walk still to do. If you are driving in, the directions and parking for 146 Harley Street cover the car parks and the drop-off point.
| From | Lines / mode | Route and typical time |
|---|---|---|
| Moorgate | Circle, Metropolitan, Hammersmith & City, Northern | One direct train to Great Portland Street, roughly ten minutes, then five minutes on foot. The shortest total journey from the City. |
| Barbican | Circle, Metropolitan, Hammersmith & City | The same line one stop closer, and the easiest start from EC1 and the Barbican estate. |
| Liverpool Street | Central, Elizabeth line, National Rail | The Elizabeth line two stops to Bond Street. Quicker on the train, but a twelve-minute walk at the far end. Useful if you are arriving on a main-line service. |
| Buses and taxis | — | Those routes stop within a few minutes of the clinic on the Marylebone Road and Great Portland Street corridors. A taxi from the City takes twenty-five to thirty-five minutes in working hours, so the Underground is usually faster. |
From the City the calculation is usually about time rather than money. A conventional pathway for a breast symptom means an appointment to be examined, a separate date to be scanned and a third occasion to be told: three interruptions to a working week, spread across a fortnight, with the uncertainty running underneath all of them. A one-stop assessment does the same work in one attendance and tells you what has been found before you leave the building.
The second reason is who you are dealing with. One surgeon examines you, plans what follows and carries it out. Self-funding patients need no referral letter to book. If a corporate or personal policy is paying, contact the insurer before you call: a GP referral and a pre-authorisation number are almost always needed, and corporate schemes sometimes route claims through an intermediary that adds a day. Where surgery or inpatient care is required it takes place at one of the private hospitals we work with in Marylebone, and there are directions and parking for The London Clinic if that is where your admission is arranged.
Your care is led by Mr Debashis Ghosh, Consultant Breast & Oncoplastic Surgeon — European Board certified in Breast Surgery and in Surgical Oncology, a consultant since 2012, and a former Divisional Director at The London Clinic. He publishes in the surgical literature and sits on national committees, which matters less to most patients than the practical consequence: the person who examines you is the person who operates if an operation is needed.
The workable pattern from EC1, EC2 and EC3 is the first appointment of the day. Moorgate or Barbican at about twenty to eight, one train through to Great Portland Street, five minutes on foot, and registration by eight. That gets the whole assessment done before most desks are occupied, and the return journey is against the commuter flow.
The consultation covers history and examination, imaging follows immediately, and any biopsy is taken at the same attendance under local anaesthetic. You are told what the examination and the scans show before you leave. Histology, where a sample has been taken, is reported separately by the laboratory and a discussion is arranged for it — by telephone if getting back across town is awkward. Ninety minutes is a fair allowance; it is rarely longer.
Moorgate or Barbican, then a single Circle, Metropolitan or Hammersmith and City line train through to Great Portland Street. That is about ten minutes on the train and five minutes on foot, and in practice it beats the Elizabeth line: Liverpool Street to Bond Street is faster on paper but leaves a twelve-minute walk at the other end. Allow twenty to twenty-five minutes door to door from most EC postcodes.
That is what the format is for. Clinic hours are Monday to Friday, 08:00 to 20:00, and a one-stop assessment usually runs sixty to ninety minutes from arrival to the results discussion. An 08:00 appointment has you back in the City well before mid-morning. The alternative on a conventional pathway is three separate half-days: one to be examined, one to be scanned, one to be told. Where a biopsy is taken, the histology follows once the laboratory has reported and we arrange a discussion for it.
The NHS programme in England invites women from the age of 50 up to their 71st birthday, every three years. Privately, screening is commonly started at 40, and earlier where there is a family history or another reason to think the risk is above average. What is right for you depends on your history rather than your age alone, which is why private breast screening begins with a consultation rather than a booking form. Below 40, ultrasound is often more informative than mammography because breast tissue tends to be denser.
This page provides general information and does not replace personalised medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Mr Debashis Ghosh is a GMC-registered Consultant Breast & Oncoplastic Surgeon, GMC No. 4657664.
Written by the Harley Street Breast Care clinical team. Clinically reviewed by Mr Debashis Ghosh, Consultant Breast & Oncoplastic Surgeon, FEBS Breast Surgery, FEBS Surgical Oncology, GMC 4657664. Last reviewed .
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