Hair GP

Hair GP is a CQC-registered clinic based at 29 Basuto Road in London, within the London region. The registered provider is Hair GP Ltd, the legal entity accountable to the regulator for the quality and safety of care delivered here.

Clinics registered in this category deliver consultant- or practitioner-led outpatient care outside hospital walls — from specialist medical consultations and minor procedures to aesthetic medicine, travel health and allied services. What unites them is CQC registration for the regulated activities they perform: Hair GP has satisfied the regulator on premises, clinical governance, consent processes and staffing appropriate to its declared scope.

The independent clinic sector is where healthcare innovation tends to arrive first — rapid-access appointments, extended hours and transparent pricing — but scope varies enormously between providers. The CQC registration on this page tells you what the service is actually regulated to do; anything beyond it should prompt questions, and any invasive treatment should come with a clearly identified, professionally registered clinician.

The registration covers more than one service type — gp practices, mobile doctors and clinics — which is common where one location houses complementary services under a single provider.

The location is administered by Hammersmith and Fulham in the London region, in a city with 5,528 registered healthcare providers of all types. Anyone pursuing council-funded care or community referrals will deal with services organised at this local-authority level.

The CQC publishes inspection reports for registered locations as they are completed; the official record for this location is linked in the registration section below and is the most reliable public account of how the service performs.

Each clinic registers for defined activities and populations. The CQC record for Hair GP lists:

Sensory impairments

Registration for sensory impairment means the service has declared competence in supporting people with sight or hearing loss: communication adjustments (BSL access, deafblind manual, large print), environmental design, and staff awareness that prevents sensory loss being mistaken for cognitive decline.

Caring for adults under 65 yrs

Registration for working-age adults signals a service oriented around different goals than elderly care: maintaining employment and family roles, rehabilitation and independence, and care plans built around an active life rather than primarily around frailty management.

Caring for adults over 65 yrs

The service is registered to care for older adults, which carries practical expectations: staff trained in frailty, falls prevention and pressure-area care; environments that accommodate reduced mobility; and care planning that accounts for multiple long-term conditions and polypharmacy — the norm rather than the exception over 65.

Physical disabilities

The service is registered to support people with physical disabilities, implying accessible premises and equipment, moving-and-handling trained staff, and care planning that maximises independence — including aids, adaptations and coordination with occupational therapy and wheelchair services.

A practical rule when shortlisting: prefer depth over breadth. A provider registered precisely for your care group — and able to describe its training and staffing for it — usually outperforms one with a longer but shallower list of declarations. And if your needs cross two of these groups at once, make the service explain how it handles the combination; that answer predicts your experience better than any single rating.

Declared specialisms are commitments, not decorations: the CQC inspects against them, and they are a fair basis for direct questions when you contact the service.

Exact availability varies by location — treat this as the typical scope of a clinic and confirm specific treatments directly with Hair GP before attending.

Specialist consultations

Appointments with doctors or specialist practitioners for assessment, diagnosis and treatment planning within the clinic's registered scope.

Minor procedures

Treatments such as joint injections, skin lesion removal and biopsies performed under local anaesthetic in clinic settings.

Diagnostic work-up

On-site or partnered blood tests, imaging referrals and physiological measurements that turn a consultation into a diagnosis.

Follow-up and review

Structured aftercare that checks outcomes and manages complications — the part of private care most worth scrutinising before you book.

Prescriptions

Private prescriptions issued where clinically appropriate by registered prescribers, dispensed at any pharmacy.

Referral letters

Onward referral into hospital specialists or NHS pathways when findings need escalation.

To contact Hair GP directly, call 02080442081 or use the enquiry route on its website (linked in the contact section above).

Most clinics in this category accept direct self-referral: telephone Hair GP or use its website to book, and expect to be seen within days rather than weeks. Bring photo ID, a list of medications, and any prior test results or letters — private clinics do not automatically see your NHS record, so what you bring is what the clinician knows.

Ask two questions when booking: who exactly will treat you (name and professional registration — GMC for doctors, NMC for nurses, HCPC for many practitioners), and what happens if something goes wrong — the aftercare and complications policy separates serious providers from the rest. For anything involving injections, lasers or surgery, verify the practitioner personally on the relevant register; it takes two minutes online.

If you hold private medical insurance, check coverage before booking — insurers typically cover clinics only for specialist-led, medically necessary care with pre-authorisation, and rarely cover aesthetic or lifestyle services.

Published opening hours for Hair GP are not yet held on this profile — the register does not record them, and hours appear here once the provider claims and completes its listing. A quick phone call (02080442081) remains the definitive check, and it is worth making even where hours are published, since bank holidays and staffing can change a given day.

If you have flexibility, avoid calling first thing on Monday, when demand across healthcare peaks; a Tuesday-to-Thursday mid-morning call usually gets answered quickest and gives reception the most room to help.

Whatever brings you to a clinic, the first appointment covers similar ground — and ten minutes of preparation makes it substantially more useful.

Bring the paperwork that saves repeating yourself: a list of current medications with doses (a photo of the boxes works), any relevant hospital letters or test results, your NHS number if you know it, and glasses or hearing aids if you use them. If the appointment concerns someone you care for, bring evidence of any legal authority you hold — power of attorney documents change what staff can lawfully discuss with you.

Expect the first appointment to include identity and history checks, a discussion of what you need, and an examination or assessment appropriate to the service. Be direct about two things in particular: everything you are taking (including over-the-counter and herbal products), and what outcome you actually want — clinicians plan differently for "I want to be seen quickly" versus "I want the most thorough option".

Before you leave, make sure three questions have answers: what happens next, who does it, and when. Vague follow-up arrangements are where care most often goes adrift; a specific next step — a booked review, a named referral, a results date with a way to chase it — is the mark of a well-run service, and it is entirely reasonable to ask for it explicitly.

Clinics set their own fees and must make them transparent before treatment. Expect a consultation fee plus itemised procedure costs; packages should state exactly what follow-up is included. Be wary of time-limited discounts on invasive treatments — pressure selling around procedures is a recognised red flag that responsible providers avoid.

For medically necessary care, insurance may apply with pre-authorisation, and some treatments may alternatively be available on the NHS via GP referral — it is always legitimate to ask the clinic which of its services have NHS equivalents and what the realistic waiting time difference is.

Hair GP is located at 29 Basuto Road,London, in the SW6 postcode district of London. The full postcode, SW6 4BJ, will take you to the door with any sat-nav or maps app — or use the Google Maps link for this exact location.

Planning the journey is worth two minutes at booking time: ask whether parking is available on site or nearby if driving, and use the postcode in any journey planner for buses and trains. If you have mobility needs, say so when booking — services can advise on step-free access and the nearest accessible parking or drop-off point.

Distance deserves honest weighting in your decision. For one-off appointments, travelling across London — or beyond it — for the right provider is usually worth it; for care involving weekly or daily contact, the calculus reverses, and the SW6 area's own options deserve first look before you commit to a longer journey.

If you use a wheelchair, travel with a carer, or need any adjustment — a quieter waiting area, longer appointment, or interpreter — raise it when booking rather than on arrival. CQC-registered providers are expected to make reasonable adjustments under the Equality Act, and almost all handle them smoothly given notice.

If this location is not convenient, the nearest comparable alternative is Accuvision Eye Care Clinic - London, roughly 0.2 miles away — the nearby providers section below lists more options with distances.

Take a written list. For a clinic, these questions surface the information that matters most:

1. Who exactly will provide my care, and what is their professional registration?
2. What are the realistic timescales — first appointment, results, and treatment?
3. What will this cost in total, and what could add to that figure later?
4. What are the alternatives, including doing nothing for now?
5. How do you handle problems out of hours, and who do I contact?
6. What should I expect to feel or notice afterwards, and what would be a warning sign?
7. How will you keep my GP informed, and what gets written to my record?
8. If my needs change, how quickly can the plan change with them?

A good service treats this list as routine; defensiveness anywhere on it tells you something the inspection report may not.

Registration with the Care Quality Commission is what permits this service to operate. What helps you choose is everything the regulator publishes about it afterwards.

The CQC inspects against five questions — is the service safe, effective, caring, responsive and well-led — and publishes its findings. For Hair GP, the registered provider is Hair GP Ltd. The official CQC record for this location carries the current registration status, ratings where awarded, and every published inspection report.

The rating scale runs Outstanding, Good, Requires Improvement, Inadequate — and context matters when reading it. Good is the expected standard, not a consolation prize; Outstanding is genuinely rare and usually reflects exceptional leadership culture rather than better equipment. A Requires Improvement rating deserves a closer look at which of the five questions dragged it down: a responsive shortfall (waiting times, complaint handling) is a different risk from a safe shortfall (medicines, staffing). Some location types are inspected without ratings at all, so an unrated service is not a warning sign in itself.

Reading a report efficiently: start with the well-led section (it predicts everything else), then safe. Look at the direction of travel across the last two inspections rather than a single snapshot, and treat "requires improvement" with a credible action plan differently from the same rating with repeated findings. If anything in a report concerns you, raising it with the service directly is both fair and revealing — well-run providers answer plainly.

Your relationship with any registered provider sits on a legal foundation worth knowing before you ever need it.

You are entitled to informed consent — a genuine explanation of options, risks and alternatives before treatment, in language you understand, with interpreters provided where needed. You have a right of access to your own records under UK GDPR, free of charge in most cases, within a month of asking. And under the Equality Act, providers must make reasonable adjustments for disability — from step-free access to communication formats — as a legal duty, not a favour.

If care falls short, complain in stages: first to the provider itself (every registered service must operate an accessible complaints procedure and respond within a defined timescale); then, for NHS-funded care, to the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman — or for privately funded care, to the Independent Sector Complaints Adjudication Service where the provider subscribes. Local authority-funded social care complaints escalate to the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman.

Two further channels matter. The CQC does not investigate individual complaints, but it wants to hear about poor care — reports feed directly into inspection planning, and you can tell it anything in confidence via its website. And if you need help making a complaint about NHS care, every area has a statutory independent advocacy service that is free to use; your council can point you to the current provider.

London has 5,528 CQC-registered healthcare providers in total, of which 148 are clinics — so genuine comparison is possible before you commit. The full London directory and the local clinics listing let you shortlist alongside this profile.

With 148 registered clinics in London, verification beats marketing. Confirm the clinic's CQC registration matches the treatment you want; verify the individual practitioner's professional registration; and read the clinic's inspection report. Then compare on substance: consultation length, aftercare policy, and whether the clinic honestly discusses risks and alternatives — including the option of not treating.

Where is Hair GP located?

Hair GP is at 29 Basuto Road,London, SW6 4BJ, in London (London region). The full postcode works in any sat-nav or journey planner.

How do I contact Hair GP?

Call 02080442081 during opening hours. The practice also runs a website with an enquiry route. For funding-route questions (NHS availability, fees), asking directly by phone gets the current position.

Is Hair GP regulated?

Yes — it is registered with the Care Quality Commission (location ID 1-25718850550) under the registered provider Hair GP Ltd. Registration is a legal requirement for delivering this type of care in England and brings ongoing inspection.

What are the nearest alternatives to Hair GP?

The closest comparable providers are Accuvision Eye Care Clinic - London (0.2 miles), The Medical Chambers Kensington (1.3 miles), GenesisCare Centre for Radiotherapy at Cromwell Hospital (1.4 miles). Each has a full profile on this site with contact details and registration information.

Do I need a referral to book?

Usually not — most independent clinics accept self-referral for consultations. Insurance-funded care generally requires GP referral and insurer pre-authorisation, so check your policy first.

How do I verify who is treating me?

Ask for the clinician's full name and check the public register: GMC for doctors, NMC for nurses, GDC for dental professionals, HCPC for physiotherapists and others. Registration confirms qualifications and the right to practise.

Is the clinic allowed to perform my treatment?

Check that the treatment falls within the regulated activities on the clinic's CQC registration — linked from this page. Treatments outside CQC scope (some aesthetic services) rely entirely on the individual practitioner's registration and insurance, so scrutiny matters more, not less.

Does Hair GP treat NHS or private patients?

The public register does not record funding routes, and many providers serve both. Phone the service for the current position — NHS availability in particular changes as capacity fills and reopens, so today's answer beats anything a directory can cache.

Where does the information on this page come from?

Core details — name, address, registration, provider and specialisms — come from the Care Quality Commission register (Open Government Licence v3.0) and are refreshed monthly. Guidance sections reflect how services of this type work across the UK. Always confirm time-sensitive details such as opening hours directly with the provider.