Updated 13 June 2019
Dr Vania Healthcare provides private medical services from an upper ground floor flat in a private residential street at 49 Netherhall Gardens Hampstead London NW3 5RJ. The premises are located on one floor. The premises consist of a patient reception area, and a consulting room.
The provider offers services specialising in sexual health, infertility, gynaecology, and provides female ultrasound. The service sees patients aged 18-65 primarily for patients from the Brazilian community whose first language is Portuguese, plus other Portuguese speaking countries including Mozambique and Angola. Portuguese speakers make up 70% of the service’s list. The doctor is registered with the GMC. There are no other staff at the service. The service is registered with the CQC to provide the regulated activities of:
- Diagnostic and screening procedures
- Treatment of disease, disorder or injury
The service also provides aesthetic procedures such as Botox and dermal fillers which are not regulated by the CQC. Therefore, at Dr Vania Healthcare, we were only able to inspect the services which were subject to regulation.
All the services provided are private and are therefore fee paying, no NHS services are provided at Dr Vania Healthcare.
Patients using the service book an appointment in advance. The clinician initially assesses all potential patients over the phone. The patients who the service sees face to face after this call are patients seeking fertility investigations and onward referral. Patients are generally healthy and young. On attending, patients are given a registration form to complete, they are then examined.
Based on the examination and medical history, a prescription may be issued, and patients will be discharged, or a follow up appointment will be offered. Other patients seen are women with gynaecological symptoms of a chronic and non-urgent nature.
If, during the initial phone call, the clinician believed that the symptoms described related to an urgent or acute problem, then they would not consider it appropriate for the patient to be seen but would guide them to an acute hospital trust or a GP.
The service is open at various times during the week with patients being seen by appointment only at times convenient to them.