106 Harley Street Consulting Rooms, London

Advantages: great care, state of the art equipment, registered charity
Disadvantages: none

...I am 36, 13 weeks pregnant with my first child and found out about the fetal medicine centre from the babycentre website. We rang to get more information and they seemed very professional. The scan cost £150 which we though was quite reasonable so we decided to book it. We found the centre on Harley Street quite easily - about a 10 minute walk from the Baker Street tube station. The waiting room was bright, airy and well decorated, with leather sofas and a free tea and coffee machine. The receptionist was polite and friendly. I had a blood test and then a few minutes waited for the scan. The doctor who carried out the scan was brilliant and the scan equipment was state of the art. He checked numerous different things - heart, blood flow to the placenta, nasal bone, nuchal flow etc etc, taking loads of different measurements and all... Read review

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Advantages: Better than 20:20 vision the next day
Disadvantages: For me, none whatsoever

...on the trees behind our garden. I have to admit I cried - so much more was out of that window than I had ever realised. That day I went in to London on my own for a check up and had better than 20:20 vision. The gritty feeling lasted a week or so, and my eyes felt a bit dry for another month. Since then I have had no problems at all. At no point did I have any pain. I did experience some 'halos' around lights at night for a month or so, which made night driving unadvisable. I have no increased light sensitivity at all. I had a couple of aftercare appointments, after a week and a month. It made a huge difference to my travelling experience, and if you're considering it I would heartily recommend that you investigate whether it is suitable for you. I know the chances are that I will still need reading glasses in my 40s or 50s, but hey, so do most... Read review

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Advantages: They really work if directions are followed correctly.
Disadvantages: None

...Bach Flower Remedies Dr Edward Bach was the “inventor” of the Bach Flower Remedies. Dr Bach studied medicine at the University College Hospital, London, and was a House Surgeon there. He worked in general practice, having a set of consulting rooms in Harley Street, and as a bacteriologist and later a pathologist he worked on vaccines and a set of homeopathic nosodes still known as the seven Bach nosodes. Despite the success of his work with orthodox medicine he felt dissatisfied with the way doctors were expected to concentrate on diseases and ignore the people who were suffering them. He was inspired by his work with homeopathy but wanted to find remedies that would be purer and less reliant on the products of disease. So in 1930 he gave up his lucrative Harley Street practice and left London, determined to devote... Read review

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