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The agreement between you and us when you book and attend an appointment at Tower Bridge Hospital London. Plain English where possible. The legal version is below; we've tried to make it readable.
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Images of clinicians are used to illustrate the type of care described on the page. Where a named member of our clinical team is shown, they are identified by name in the accompanying text or caption.
Imaging modalities arranged through third parties — including MRI, CT and X-ray — are carried out at our CQC-registered partner centres. Photographs on those pages do not depict our premises or our partners’ facilities.
These terms and conditions ("the Terms") form the agreement between you ("the Patient", "you") and My Health & Wellbeing Clinics Ltd ("Tower Bridge Hospital London", "we", "us", "our"), a private medical clinic registered in England and Wales (company number 14811638), trading from 97–99 Whitechapel Road, London E1 1DT.
By booking an appointment with us, attending an appointment, or using any of our services, you confirm that you have read, understood and agreed to these Terms. If you do not agree, please do not book an appointment with us — or, if you've already booked, please contact us to cancel.
Professional duties always apply
These Terms are a private contract. They do not override our duties as a CQC-registered healthcare provider and the GMC-registered doctors who deliver your care. Our clinicians always work to the standards required by their professional bodies (GMC, NMC, HCPC where relevant) and to the regulatory standards required by the Care Quality Commission. If any term in this document conflicts with those professional standards, the professional standards take precedence.
In these Terms, the following expressions have the meanings set out below:
Appointments can be booked online through our booking portal, by telephone (020 7916 0029), by email (info@mhwclinic.co.uk) or in person at reception. When you book, you confirm that the information you give us — including your name, date of birth, contact details, medical history and reason for booking — is accurate and complete to the best of your knowledge.
A booking is only confirmed once you have received written or electronic confirmation from us. We reserve the right to decline or cancel a booking where, in our reasonable judgement, the service is not appropriate for us to provide, your needs are better served by another provider, or there are concerns about safety, suitability or behaviour.
Most Appointments require a booking deposit of £50, taken at the time of booking by debit or credit card. The deposit secures your Appointment and is offset against the total cost of your Services on the day. Where the total cost is less than £50 (for example a low-cost service), the deposit may instead be held as a no-show protection and credited at the end of the visit.
Some Services with higher costs (for example minor surgery, hair transplant, certain diagnostic procedures) may require a larger deposit, which will be clearly stated at the time of booking.
Payment is due in full at the time of your Appointment unless otherwise agreed in writing. We accept payment by credit and debit card. Cash may be accepted at reception's discretion but is not our preferred method.
The price of an Appointment is the price published on our website at the time of booking, or the price specifically quoted to you in writing or in person. Additional services or investigations arranged during the Appointment (for example, additional blood tests, scans, treatments) will be quoted and agreed before they are carried out.
Prices are inclusive of VAT where applicable. Medical services are generally exempt from VAT under UK legislation, but certain non-clinical services (such as some private reports, occupational health work, or copies of records for non-clinical purposes) may attract VAT.
We accept payment from several major UK private medical insurers, including Bupa, AXA Health, Vitality, Aviva, Cigna and WPA. If you wish to use insurance, you must:
Important: if your insurer declines payment, partially pays, or applies an excess or shortfall, you remain ultimately responsible for the balance. We will invoice you for any amount not paid by your insurer within 30 days of the original Appointment. This is standard practice across UK private healthcare.
We understand that plans change. We ask that you give us as much notice as possible if you need to cancel or reschedule.
If you cancel or reschedule with more than 48 hours’ notice, your £50 deposit will be refunded to your original payment method, or held as a credit for a future Appointment, as you prefer. There is no cancellation fee.
If you cancel or reschedule with less than 48 hours’ notice, or if you do not attend ("no-show"), the £50 deposit is non-refundable, and we reserve the right to charge the full cost of the booked Appointment.
This is because clinical time is a scarce resource: an Appointment slot reserved for you and not used cannot easily be filled at short notice, and another patient may have been turned away. Late-cancellation fees reflect the actual operational cost to us and to other patients waiting for an Appointment. Same-day exception: if you book an Appointment for the same day and need to cancel that same day, you are exempt from the late-cancellation fee, since 48 hours’ notice was never possible.
If we need to cancel or reschedule your Appointment — due to clinician illness, equipment failure, or any other reason — we will contact you as early as possible and offer the earliest reasonable alternative. If you choose not to accept the alternative, your full payment, including any deposit, will be refunded.
We may waive late-cancellation fees in genuine exceptional circumstances — for example sudden serious illness, bereavement, or other emergencies. This is at our reasonable discretion. To request a waiver, contact us as soon as you reasonably can and explain the circumstances.
We offer refunds in the following circumstances:
We do not refund for change of mind after a Service has been provided, for dissatisfaction with a clinical opinion you disagree with (provided the clinician has worked to a reasonable standard), for missed Appointments, or for unused portions of a course of treatment voluntarily discontinued.
If you are unhappy with a Service and believe a refund is appropriate, please raise this with us in writing first via the Complaints Policy. Complaints are taken seriously and resolved fairly — including with refunds where appropriate. Nothing in these Terms affects your statutory rights under the Consumer Rights Act 2015.
Tower Bridge Hospital London is a private outpatient medical clinic. We provide private GP services, specialist consultations, minor surgical procedures, diagnostic services and other outpatient care as listed on our website. The Services we provide are subject to our clinical judgement and operational capacity at the time of your Appointment.
We are not an emergency service. If you or someone you are responsible for has a medical emergency, call 999 or attend your nearest A&E. The Royal London Hospital (with paediatric and adult A&E) is approximately 5 minutes' walk from us, at Whitechapel Road E1 1FR.
Some Services may be offered by telephone or video consultation. These are appropriate for some clinical concerns but not all. Where a clinician judges that an in-person examination is necessary, you will be asked to attend the clinic. If we cannot provide the Service safely or effectively by remote consultation, we may decline to continue and offer you an in-person Appointment instead.
Medical practice involves judgement, probability and risk. While our clinicians work to a high standard and follow current evidence-based guidelines, we cannot guarantee specific clinical outcomes, the success of any treatment, or that a diagnosis will be reached in any particular timeframe. We work with you to understand your concerns, undertake appropriate investigations, and recommend appropriate management — but the practice of medicine is not a contract for a specific result.
To enable us to provide safe and effective care, we ask that you:
We see patients from infancy onwards in our paediatric service, and patients of all ages in our other services subject to clinical appropriateness.
Patients aged 16 and over may book Appointments in their own right and consent to most medical treatment themselves under the Family Law Reform Act 1969. For sensitive consultations (sexual health, mental health, contraception), 16- and 17-year-olds have full rights to confidential consultation.
Patients under 16 must normally be accompanied by a parent or legal guardian who has parental responsibility, and must be booked by that parent or guardian. In specific circumstances, a young person under 16 may consent to confidential consultation in their own right under Fraser/Gillick competence assessment by the clinician — principally for sexual health, contraception or where involving a parent would put the young person at risk. This is assessed case-by-case.
For patients who lack capacity to consent (under the Mental Capacity Act 2005), Appointments must be booked and consented to by an appropriate person with legal authority — typically a Lasting Power of Attorney for Health and Welfare. Best interests decisions are made in accordance with the Act.
We keep clinical records of every Appointment and Service we provide. These records are confidential and held in accordance with our Privacy Policy, which forms part of these Terms by reference.
We do not share information about your Appointment with your NHS GP, employer, family members, partners or any other third party without your explicit consent — except where required by law (for example, statutory disclosure orders, public health notifiable diseases, safeguarding concerns where there is risk of significant harm).
Your records are retained for a minimum of 8 years after your last Appointment (longer for children, ongoing treatment or where regulatory requirements apply). See our Privacy Policy for full details on data handling, your rights, and how to make a Subject Access Request.
If you are unhappy with any aspect of the Service you have received, please raise this with us in the first instance. Our Complaints Policy sets out exactly how to do this and how we'll respond. We aim to acknowledge complaints within 24 hours and respond substantively within 28 days. Patients also have rights of independent escalation to bodies such as ISCAS, the CQC, the PHSO (where applicable) and the GMC for clinician-specific concerns.
Our liability to you under these Terms is governed by general principles of English contract law and clinical negligence law as it applies to private healthcare providers. Specifically:
Our clinicians hold appropriate professional indemnity cover (typically through the MDU, MDDUS, MPS or equivalent) in accordance with GMC requirements. Claims of clinical negligence are dealt with through the appropriate indemnity provider, not through these Terms.
We may update these Terms from time to time to reflect changes in law, regulatory expectations, or how we operate. The current version is always available at towerbridgehospital.co.uk/terms-conditions, with the "last reviewed" date shown at the top.
Material changes (for example, changes to cancellation policy or pricing) will be communicated to you at the time of your next Appointment booking. Continued use of our Services after such notice constitutes acceptance of the updated Terms.
These Terms and any non-contractual obligations arising from them are governed by the laws of England and Wales. Any disputes arising out of or in connection with these Terms are subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales. This does not affect your statutory rights as a consumer to bring proceedings in your local courts.
Questions about these Terms can be sent to:
Related policies
These Terms should be read alongside our other policies, all available at towerbridgehospital.co.uk/policies:
© 2026 My Health & Wellbeing Clinics Ltd. Registered in England and Wales, company number 14811638.This policy was last reviewed in May 2026. Version 1.0.
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