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St Philips Medical Centre

St Philips Medical Centre is an NHS general practice staffed by doctors and nurses who provide primary medical and nursing care to registered patients.

The medical centre also  provides a number of services run by visiting specialists and health practitioners. 

We have moved

The St Philips Medical Centre is now located on the second floor of Tower 3, Clement's Inn, London, WC2A 2AZ. For details of how to get to Tower 3 on the LSE campus see the Finding your way around LSE web page. 

A quick guide to the national health service

In order to be eligible for NHS care, you must be registered with a GP in the area where you live. For those registering here the medical centre should be the first contact for all health problems. Only your GP can visit you at home, refer you to see a NHS or private specialist or arrange investigations e.g. x-rays.

Please do not wait until you are ill before registering with a doctor or obtaining an NHS number.

If you are away from London and need to see a doctor, you can register as a Temporary Resident in the area where you are staying. If you experience or witness a significant medical emergency or accident that will require immediate hospital care you should travel directly to the local hospital casualty department or call an ambulance by dialling 999.

Information for patients from abroad 

The National Health Service is a state funded health care provider in the UK. Anyone resident in the UK for 6 months or more is entitled to receive free health care throughout NHS hospitals and clinics.

If you plan to spend less than 6 months in the United Kingdom, you should establish whether or not your government will pay for your help care whilst you are here. You should establish this fact before you arrive in the United Kingdom. If there is no arrangement between your government and the United Kingdom, you should make appropriate arrangements to cover the possibility of incurring costs through accidents or...