VIP and Private Care
A closed clinic and bespoke care, built around you and your schedule
Athletes, performers, executives and people in public life come to London Cartilage Clinic for joint problems they would rather solve quietly. The clinic can be reserved for you, imaging happens on the same visit, and nobody is ever named.
How a private clinic day works
Reviewed byProfessor Paul Lee MBBch, FRCS (Tr & Orth), PhDCartilage and joint preservation expertiseHow private care works here
Discretion is the default, not an upgrade
Nobody is named
The clinic does not say who it treats, in print, online or in conversation. These pages describe kinds of patient, never people.
The clinic can be closed for you
Half a day or a full day at 66 Harley Street with no other patients booked, subject to availability.
Your schedule sets the timetable
Sessions early or late, imaging directly before the consultation, treatment timed to a season, a production or a diary.
One person handles everything
A single coordinator for the diary, your records, transfers and accommodation, reachable directly by you or whoever you nominate.
Who we look after
Different lives, the same standard of discretion
Nobody is named here, which is the point. These pages describe the pressures each group brings and the way the clinic adapts to them.
Professional footballers
Season calendars and return-to-play decisions, handled quietly and quickly, with your club involved only if you want it.
How the clinic adapts
Golfers
Tour windows, long travel and joints that have to hold a swing. Treatment timed between events.
How the clinic adapts
Screen and stage
Production schedules, physical roles and a public profile. Care that stays out of the frame.
How the clinic adapts
Executives and public figures
A diary with no gaps, constant travel and a reputation to protect. Decided in one visit.
How the clinic adapts
66 Harley Street
Closed for your session
Private clinic days
A closed clinic, built around you and your schedule
For patients who need discretion, or simply need everything to happen in one visit, the clinic can be set aside for half a day or a full day. You arrive, you are scanned, you see Professor Lee, and you leave with a decision.
- The clinic, reserved for youHalf a day or a full day at 66 Harley Street with no other patients booked, subject to availability.
- Scan directly before you are seenImaging is aligned to the consultation so Professor Lee decides on fresh pictures in one visit.
- One coordinator throughoutDiary, records, transfers and accommodation handled by a single person you can reach directly.
What does not change
A different door, the same clinic
Private care changes the setting and the schedule. It does not buy a different answer. That is what makes it worth having.
- The same surgeon. Professor Lee leads every consultation and every procedure.
- The same honesty. If the right advice is to wait, or to do nothing, that is what you will hear.
- The same treatments. Joint-preserving options first, with surgery where it is genuinely the better answer.
- The same price basis. Direct pay, quoted in writing after assessment, with no premium hidden in the clinical care.
Authority
The surgeon you are choosing
Patients who could go anywhere are choosing between a small number of world specialists. This is the person you would be seeing.
- Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon and medical engineer, PhD
- Internationally published in cartilage repair and joint preservation, cited over 1,000 times
- Lead of an ICRS teaching centre for cartilage regeneration
- Joint-replacement outcomes recorded in the National Joint Registry, within the expected range
- Member of the British Association for Surgery of the Knee (BASK)
Private and VIP care
Questions we are asked
Do I have to be a public figure to ask for private care?
No. The closed clinic sessions and the single-coordinator model are for anyone who needs discretion or needs everything to happen in one visit. Many patients who ask for them are simply busy.
Is VIP care different clinically?
No. The setting, the schedule and the privacy change. The clinical standard, the surgeon and the advice are the same for every patient London Cartilage Clinic sees.
Will the clinic ever say that I was treated here?
No. Nobody is named in any public material and the clinic does not comment on who it treats. Records are shared only on your instruction.
I am travelling from abroad. Where do I start?
Send a private enquiry. Your coordinator handles the travel, imaging review and timing as part of arranging your visit, so there is nothing else to work through first.
How do I arrange it?
Call or email the clinic. A coordinator will ask what you need and the dates you have, and come back to you with a written proposal before anything is booked.
Private and VIP care
Speak to a person, in confidence
Tell the clinic what you need and the dates you have. A single coordinator takes it from there, including a closed session where that is right for you.
Call 0330 043 2571Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm. Outside those hours, send the form and the coordinator will call you back.