Knightsbridge
Piccadilly
one stop to Green Park, then one stop on the Jubilee line to Bond Street, and about twelve minutes on foot. Roughly twenty-five minutes door to door.
Two miles north of Brompton Road. Consultant-led assessment with imaging in one attendance.
Tell us what you need and we will come back to you the same working day.
Yes. Harley Street Breast Care is at 146 Harley Street, W1G 7LD, about two miles north of Knightsbridge across Hyde Park. Consultation, clinical examination, mammogram or ultrasound and, where needed, a biopsy are completed in one visit, with the results discussed before you leave in most cases.
Knightsbridge is about two miles from our consulting rooms at 146 Harley Street, W1G 7LD, which is close enough that the journey rarely decides the appointment time. A same-day one-stop breast clinic appointment runs sixty to ninety minutes from arrival to the results discussion, so a mid-morning slot leaves the rest of the day intact.
Two kinds of appointment dominate from SW1X and SW7. The first is the change someone has found and wants resolved quickly. The second is planned: risk assessment because of a family history, a screening interval chosen deliberately, or implants that need reviewing after a number of years. Both are handled in a single attendance. All our London locations are listed together if somewhere else is easier for you.
From Knightsbridge there is no single train that does the whole journey, but every option is short. The Piccadilly line via Green Park is the standard route, the 137 bus does it in one go up Park Lane, and the Circle line from South Kensington leaves the shortest walk. If you are driving, the directions and parking for 146 Harley Street list the nearest car parks and the drop-off point.
| From | Lines / mode | Route and typical time |
|---|---|---|
| Knightsbridge | Piccadilly | One stop to Green Park, then one stop on the Jubilee line to Bond Street, and about twelve minutes on foot. Roughly twenty-five minutes door to door. |
| Hyde Park Corner | Piccadilly | The same route one stop further along, and the easier start if you are coming from the Wilton Place or Park Lane end. |
| South Kensington | Circle, District, Piccadilly | The Circle line runs through to Great Portland Street without a change, leaving only a five-minute walk at the far end. |
| Buses and taxis | — | Those routes stop within a few minutes of the clinic on the Marylebone Road and Great Portland Street corridors. The 137 runs from Knightsbridge up Park Lane to Oxford Circus without a change, and a taxi normally takes fifteen to twenty minutes. |
Not every reason to see a breast specialist is urgent, and a good share of our Knightsbridge enquiries are planned rather than reactive: a family history that has started to worry someone, a screening interval they would rather set themselves than inherit from a national programme, or implants placed years ago that now need checking. Those are appointments where you choose the timing, and where the value of a private clinic is having the whole assessment in one attendance rather than a referral, a scan date and a results letter weeks apart.
Where something does turn out to need urgent attention, the same format works in your favour: examination, imaging and biopsy on one visit, with the findings explained by the surgeon who examined you. No referral letter is required to book if you are funding the appointment yourself. If a policy is paying, speak to the insurer first — a referral and a pre-authorisation number are almost always required. Operations take place at one of the private hospitals nearby, with directions and parking for The Harley Street Clinic if that is where your admission is arranged.
Your care is led by Mr Debashis Ghosh, Consultant Breast & Oncoplastic Surgeon, a consultant since 2012 with European Board certification in Breast Surgery and in Surgical Oncology. His practice covers the planned side of breast care as much as the urgent: family-history and risk assessment, implant surveillance and revision, and oncoplastic techniques intended to preserve the shape of the breast as well as remove disease.
Allow half an hour for the journey from SW1X or SW7 and a little longer in the evening peak. For a planned assessment — family history, a screening interval, an implant check — it helps to bring anything documentary you have: the age at which relatives were affected, previous mammogram or ultrasound reports, and for implants the operation note or implant card with the make and size on it.
The consultation works through that history first, because it changes what imaging is worth doing. Mammography, ultrasound or both follow in the same building; where an implant is being assessed, ultrasound or MRI is used to establish whether it is intact. A risk assessment ends with a written plan: what surveillance is appropriate, at what interval, and whether genetic testing is indicated. Nothing about that requires a second visit unless a biopsy result is pending.
The Piccadilly line one stop to Green Park, then the Jubilee line one stop to Bond Street, and about twelve minutes on foot north up Regent Street and Portland Place. Door to door that is usually twenty-five minutes. The 137 bus up Park Lane reaches Oxford Circus without a change, and a taxi is normally fifteen to twenty minutes outside the rush hours.
Yes. A family history consultation looks at who in your family was affected and at what age, works out where that places your own risk, and sets out what follows from it: earlier or more frequent imaging, and in some cases BRCA genetic testing. Not everyone with a relative who has had breast cancer needs a genetic test, and part of the consultation is establishing whether you do.
Yes. Implant assessment is one of the more common planned reasons people come to us. Capsular contracture, a change in shape, pain, or a suspected rupture can all be looked at with examination and imaging on the same visit, and ultrasound or MRI is used where the question is whether an implant is intact. If you have the original operation note or implant card, bring it. There is more on breast implant problems and how they are investigated.
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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