Men’s Private STI Screening in London

The Standard screening is £559 and the Advanced screening is £829, both all-inclusive. That covers the samples, the laboratory work, the ultrasound, the GP appointment, the medication review and your written report.

Private STI test prices in London range from around £100 to several hundred, and the spread reflects what is bundled in. Lower prices generally cover the laboratory panel alone, without imaging or a doctor. Comparing the inclusions gives a more useful picture than comparing headline figures.

In practice they describe the same infections and the same laboratory tests. STI is the term now generally preferred, because an infection can be present without ever causing disease or symptoms.

Whether you searched for an STI test, an STD test, a sexual health check or a GUM clinic, this is the service you are looking for.

Symptoms determine the choice. Standard covers men without symptoms who want routine or precautionary screening: the four infections that make up standard UK screening, plus the testicular ultrasound and the GP appointment.

Advanced is designed for men who do have symptoms, such as discharge, pain on passing urine, urethral irritation, a sore, or testicular pain or swelling. It widens the panel to eleven organisms, adds urinary tract imaging, and includes a free phone consultation before you book so you are not guessing. If you are unsure which applies, call 020 7101 3377 and the team will help you decide.

HIV 1 and 2 with p24 antigen, and syphilis IgG and IgM, both from a blood sample. Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae from a urine sample. These four are what UK sexual health services screen for as standard in men without symptoms.

The Standard screening also includes a testicular ultrasound, a GP appointment and a medication review, which is what separates it from a laboratory-only STI panel.

Everything in the Standard screening, plus hepatitis B surface antigen and hepatitis C antibodies and antigen from blood, and mycoplasma genitalium, ureaplasma urealyticum and parvum, trichomonas vaginalis, gardnerella vaginalis and herpes simplex I and II from urine.

It also upgrades the imaging to a Testes, kidney and urinary tract ultrasound, and includes a free phone consultation before booking. Turnaround for the Advanced laboratory panel is 4 working days.

Both of our clinics offer same-day STI testing appointments. Our Central London clinic is at 27 Welbeck Street, W1G 8EN, in the Harley Street Medical District, and our St Albans clinic is at 54–56 Victoria Street, AL1 3HZ. Both are open seven days a week from 9am to 7pm, and same-day and next-day appointments are frequently available. Call 020 7101 3377 to check what is free today, or book online.

A same-day appointment covers everything done in the clinic: the blood sample, the urine sample, the testicular ultrasound and the GP consultation. Ultrasound findings are explained before you leave. Laboratory results follow separately, with the Advanced panel taking 4 working days and the Standard panel taking 1–3 working days.

Ultrasound findings are explained on the day, in the appointment. The Advanced laboratory panel takes 4 working days. The Standard panel is a smaller set of tests and comes back in 1–3 working days.

Your written report sets out the findings and the recommended next step, and a referral letter is included if one is needed.

It depends on the infection, and this is the single most common reason a screening result is misleading. Chlamydia and gonorrhoea can be tested from about two weeks after exposure. Most HIV infections are picked up by four weeks on a fourth-generation test, with a negative result at 45 days taken as conclusive. Syphilis is often detectable from three to four weeks but needs a repeat at twelve weeks to be excluded properly. Hepatitis B and C can take up to three months.

If you have symptoms now, attend sooner rather than waiting for a window period to pass, because symptoms change what needs testing. And if you may have been exposed to HIV in the last 72 hours, this is not the right service: post-exposure prophylaxis is time-critical and you should go to A&E or an NHS sexual health clinic immediately.

Try not to pass urine for at least an hour before your appointment, and ideally two, because the urine tests work best on a first-void sample. No fasting is needed. Bring a list of your current medication and supplements, including anything bought over the counter.

If you have a visible sore, blister, rash or discharge, point it out rather than waiting to be asked. It often changes which sample is most useful.

Because in men, the things that prompt an STI test and the things that prompt a scrotal scan overlap constantly. Chlamydia and gonorrhoea can ascend to cause epididymo-orchitis, which presents as testicular pain and swelling. A lump that turns out to be a cyst, a varicocele or a hydrocele is common and reassuring to identify. Occasionally a swelling attributed to infection turns out to be something that needs urgent attention.

A laboratory panel cannot tell you any of that. Including the scan means one visit answers both questions rather than sending you somewhere else with a negative swab and an unexplained lump.

No. You can book directly, without a referral from your NHS GP. If you have recent results, a clinic letter or a list of current medication, bring them, as they give useful clinical context.

Yes. The appointment, the samples, the discussion and your results are handled with strict medical confidentiality, in a private room. Nothing is shared with your NHS GP, your employer or anyone else without your consent.

One honest qualification: a small number of infections carry statutory public health reporting duties in England, handled by the laboratory and clinician in the usual way. If that applies to your result, your GP will explain exactly what it means before anything happens.

Testing is confidential, and it requires identification. We need your name and date of birth so that results, any treatment and any referral attach to the correct patient record. Identity checks are standard practice across UK sexual health services for this reason.

Your GP contacts you, explains what the result means and sets out the next step. Some infections can be managed straightforwardly in primary care. Others, including HIV, syphilis, gonorrhoea and hepatitis B or C, are managed by specialist NHS sexual health services, both because that is where the expertise sits and because of antibiotic resistance monitoring and follow-up testing.

Where a specialist service is the right route, you are referred there with confirmed laboratory results, which makes that appointment considerably more productive than arriving with a question. Your GP will also talk through partner notification, which matters and is more manageable than most people expect.

Some of them, yes, and your GP will tell you clearly which category your result falls into rather than leaving it vague. Treatment and any medication are not included in the screening price.

For the infections that belong in specialist care, referral is the standard clinical route, and you are referred with confirmed laboratory results. Partner notification, test of cure and antibiotic resistance monitoring are all part of managing those infections properly.

A urine sample tests the urethra. It does not test the throat or the rectum, and a negative urine result does not exclude an infection at either site. If you have had oral or anal sex, those sites need their own swabs to be covered.

Tell the team when you book so this can be arranged or you can be directed to the right service. Site-specific testing is a standard part of sexual health assessment and is worth raising before your appointment.

Yes. NHS sexual health services in London provide STI testing and treatment free of charge, and free postal self-sampling kits are available through them. They also offer throat and rectal swabs routinely, and full partner notification services including anonymous routes.

A private men’s STI screening covers different ground: an appointment at short notice, a testicular ultrasound in the same visit, a GP consultation and examination included, and an extended eleven-organism panel where symptoms need investigating.

For a man with no symptoms who takes the samples correctly, a home kit tests for much the same infections and is a reasonable option. The limitations are the ones you would expect: nobody examines you, nothing is imaged, sampling errors are invisible, and a positive result arrives without a clinician attached to it.

Where symptoms are present, clinical assessment adds what a kit cannot: examination, imaging where the scrotum or urinary tract is involved, and a wider panel selected around what you describe.

Yes, and this is the main argument for it. Chlamydia in particular is frequently symptomless in men, and HIV, syphilis and hepatitis can all be carried for long periods without anything noticeable.

Routine screening after a change of partner, after unprotected sex, or before stopping barrier protection with a new partner is standard practice and is recommended by UK sexual health services.

There is no routine HPV screening test for men, so HPV is not included in either panel. Warts and most skin lesions are diagnosed by looking at them rather than by a laboratory test, which is one more reason the GP appointment is part of the package.

If you have noticed a lump, a growth or a change in the skin, mention it at the appointment and it can be examined.

Treatment and any medication that follows from your results are priced separately. Throat and rectal swabs are not part of the standard panels and need to be arranged. HPV testing, semen analysis and fertility testing are not included.

Hormone testing is not part of this screening. Where the concern is erectile function, testosterone or libido, our erectile dysfunction assessment covers that pathway instead.

Go to A&E now, rather than booking, if you have sudden severe testicular pain, which can indicate testicular torsion and is time-critical; a painful, swollen scrotum with fever or feeling generally unwell; or an inability to pass urine.

Also go straight to A&E or an NHS sexual health clinic, without waiting for a test, if you think you may have been exposed to HIV within the last 72 hours. Post-exposure prophylaxis only works inside that window and a screening test will not help you in time.

London Private Ultrasound has two clinics. Central London is at 27 Welbeck Street, W1G 8EN, in the Harley Street Medical District, a short walk from Bond Street, Oxford Circus and Marylebone. St Albans is at 54–56 Victoria Street, AL1 3HZ.

Both are open seven days a week, 9am to 7pm, with same-day appointments frequently available.