This page is for ‘self-paying’ private patients to make payments for advanced clinical MRI Services.

This is a private specialist MRI scanning service, provided by the School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences (BMEIS), King’s College London at their Advanced MRI Centre, which hosts a state of the art Ultra-High-field Siemens 7T MRI scanner.  The facility is based on the lower ground floor of North Wing at St. Thomas’ Hospital, Westminster Bridge Road, SE1 7EH.

Booking an MRI Scan:

To book an MRI scan, we need a referral or clinical letter from your Consultant or private Physician please.

To make the payment for the scan, please select one of the below options and click 'add to basket’. You will then be asked to provide contact details for yourself and your consultant before proceeding to make the payment.  You will pay the reporting fee separately.  Our Private Patient Billing Team will get in touch with you separately to organise the reporting fee payment.

Scan appointments are offered on a mutual convenience basis. 

Please email: [email protected] with your availability.  Once we have agreed a provisional appointment you will be asked to make the payment for your scan.  Once we have received the confirmation of payment online, we will send out the confirmation of your appointment and other relevant patient information via email or by post depending on your preference.

Scans we provide:

• Ultra-High-field MRI scan of the Brain using 7T MRI scanner - Scan Costs: £1400.00 + Reporting fee: £194.00 (£1594)
• Ultra-High-field MRI scan of the Knee using 7T MRI scanner - Scan Costs: £1400.00 + Reporting fee: £194.00 (£1594)

If you have any queries regarding this private scanning service, please contact:

Ramesh Valapil
MRI CRF Manager
Email: [email protected]
Tel: 020 7188 7188 ext. 54382

Please note our refund and cancellation policy:

• If appointment is cancelled 48 hours before the appointment date: 100% refund
• If appointment is cancelled 24 hours before the appointment date: 50% refund
• No refund if cancelled within 24 hours of the appointment date.

This page is for ‘self-paying’ private patients to make payments to King’s College London for Clinical MRI Services. This is a consultant-lead specialist service, provided by the King’s College London at the School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences (BMEIS) based in 4th floor Lambeth Wing, St. Thomas Hospital, Westminster Bridge Road, SE1 7EH.

Booking an MRI Scan:

We need a referral letter from your consultant. Please ask your clinician for a referral letter or a clinic letter. We accept referrals from a consultant or your private doctor. We provide five specialist cardiac MRI scans: 

(a)  Routine Cardiac MRI Scan (Scan to assess the structure, function and viability of the heart) - cost: £1565

(b)  Perfusion Cardiac MRI scan (Scan to assess the structure, function, viability of the heart and any potential ischaemic changes under stress and rest conditions) - Cost: £1795

(c) Complex Cardiac MRI scan ((Scan to assess the structure, function, viability and inflammation (myocarditis) or tumour within the heart) - cost: £1975

(d) Congenital Cardiac MRI Scan (Scan to assess the structure, blood flow in the major vessels and any congenital abnormalities of the heart) - Cost: £2050

(e) Foetal Cardiac Advanced MRI (Scan to assess the unborn baby’s heart and structure through mother’s womb) – Cost: £2,900.00

Your scan will take 60 - 90 minutes to complete depending on the complexity of the scan requested.

To make the payment you can select the appropriate option and 'add to basket’. You will then be asked to provide some details of yours and your consultant’s contact details before proceed to make the payment.

If you are unsure of the type of scan you need, please email your referral form first with your contact details to [email protected] or [email protected].  One of our clinical coordinators will then get in touch with you to inform you of the type of scan you would need and also the availability of potential appointment slots. You will be asked a set of questions to assess your suitability for the MRI scan. Once we agreed a mutually convenient provisional appointment you will be asked to make the payment towards your scan.

Once you have received the confirmation of payment online, we will send out the confirmation of your appointment and other relevant patient information leaflet via email or by post depending on your preference.

Please note our refund and cancellation policy:

If appointment is cancelled 48 hours before the appointment date: 100% refund
If appointment is cancelled 24 hours before the appointment date: 50% refund
No refund if cancelled within 24 hours of the appointment date.

If you have any queries, please contact:

Ramesh Valapil
MRI CRF Manager
Email: [email protected]
Tel: 020 7188 7188 ext 54382

We at the King’s College London’s Imaging Clinical Research Facility are proud of our state-of-the-art facilities, world leading expertise and innovation driven industrial collaborations to produce world class research and tangible improvements in patient outcomes. Putting the patient at ease is the first step of patient care. With the world’s very first and only 80 cm patient bore, MAGNETOM Free.Max MRI Scanner, we can break barriers in patient comfort and accessibility – making the experience a realistic option for claustrophobic, anxious, and more corpulent patients.

This page is for ‘self-paying’ private patients to make payments for their MRI scans using our new and the UK’s one and only Siemens Magnetom Free.Max MRI Scanner.

This is a specialist MRI scanning service, provided by the School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences (BMEIS), King’s College London, in collaboration with our colleagues within Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust. Our Advanced MRI Centre is based on the lower ground floor of North Wing at St. Thomas’ Hospital, Westminster Bridge Road, SE1 7EH.

Booking an MRI Scan

To book an MRI scan, please send a referral or clinical letter from your Consultant or a private Physician to [email protected] copying [email protected], the Superintendent Radiographer. We will then ask one of our Radiologist colleagues to vet and protocol your referral for the scan to be performed. Only once your referral has been vetted and protocolled, would we be able to accept your referral. There are times that we won’t be able to accept your referral, for instance if the scan protocol is unavailable, or if our Radiologist believes that the referral is not justifiable for clinical reasons.

Once the referral has been accepted, we will get in touch with you to organise a provisional appointment that is mutually convenient to you and clinical team. You will be provided with the link to this web page, where you will make the payment for the scan.

To make the payment for the scan, please select one of the below options and click 'add to basket’. You will then be asked to provide contact details for yourself and your consultant before proceeding to make the payment. We will get an automatic confirmation once the payment has gone through our systems. We will then send you further confirmation of your appointment and any relevant patient information via email or by post depending on your preference.

Scans we provide (patients over 19 years old)

· MRI scan for one area / region without contrast - £449

· MRI scan for one area / region pre and post contrast - £564

· MRI scan for two areas / regions without contrast - £673