Consultant-led respiratory care
Specialist assessment for breathing and lung problems
The Chest Clinic is a group of NHS consultant respiratory physicians who see adults privately in London, Harrow and Hertfordshire. We assess breathlessness, cough, asthma, COPD, lung nodules, interstitial lung disease and sleep apnoea, with full lung function and cardiopulmonary exercise testing.
Start with your symptoms
What brings you to us?
Choose the description that fits best. Each guide explains when to seek urgent help, possible causes and how we investigate.
Breathlessness
Getting out of breath more easily, including when earlier tests were reported as normal.
Read more →Persistent cough
A cough lasting more than three weeks, or one that keeps coming back.
Read more →Wheeze or chest tightness
Possible asthma, including assessment with objective tests.
Read more →Abnormal scan or lung nodule
An X-ray or CT finding that needs specialist review.
Read more →Snoring or daytime sleepiness
Possible sleep apnoea, assessed with a home sleep study.
Read more →Chest pain
Chest pain after heart causes have been assessed, including chest wall and reflux causes.
Read more →Fluid or air around the lung
Pleural effusion or pneumothorax, assessed with thoracic ultrasound.
Read more →Recurrent chest infections
Repeated infections, long-standing sputum, bronchiectasis or ABPA.
Read more →When to get urgent help
Call 999 for severe breathing difficulty, blue or grey lips, collapse, sudden severe chest pain, or coughing up more than a few streaks of blood. Contact NHS 111 the same day if your breathing is worse than usual. Do not wait for a clinic appointment.
Investigations
Tests that answer the question
We choose tests for a clinical reason, explain the results and agree a plan with you.
Cardiopulmonary exercise testing
Measures how your heart, lungs and muscles work together, including VO2 max and the anaerobic threshold.
About CPET →Full lung function
Spirometry, reversibility, lung volumes and gas transfer, performed by experienced respiratory physiologists.
About lung function →Bronchoscopy and EBUS
Looking inside the airways and sampling chest lymph nodes to diagnose and stage lung disease.
About procedures →How it works
Four steps to a clear plan
Get in touch
Call or email. We help you choose a consultant and a convenient hospital.
Check funding
If insured, check whether you need a GP referral and an authorisation code. If paying yourself, ask about fees when you book.
See your consultant
A full history and examination, with tests arranged where they will help.
Agree a plan
We explain the results and write to you and your GP with a clear plan.
Our consultants
Meet the team
All our consultants hold NHS posts and see patients privately under practising privileges at independent hospitals.
Dr Matthew Knight
Consultant Respiratory Physician
Complex or unexplained respiratory symptoms, including breathlessness with “normal” tests, complex asthma and chronic cough.
Sees patients at: The Wellington · Elstree · Clementine Churchill · Hemel Hempstead
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Dr Rahul Mogal
Consultant in Respiratory and General Medicine
Interventional pulmonology, including EBUS, plus the full range of respiratory conditions.
Sees patients at: Cleveland Clinic London · Clementine Churchill · Circle hospitals · Spire Thames Valley
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Dr Anand Singh
Consultant Respiratory Physician
Sleep apnoea, interstitial lung disease and non-invasive ventilation, alongside general respiratory medicine.
Sees patients at: Clementine Churchill · OSD Healthcare, Hemel Hempstead · Syon Clinic
View profile →Dr Alessio Navarra
Consultant Respiratory and Internal Medicine Physician
Lung cancer diagnostics, pleural disease and interventional respiratory medicine.
Sees patients at: Locations to be confirmed
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Dr Andrew Barlow
Consultant Respiratory Physician
Interventional bronchoscopy, EBUS and advanced thoracic ultrasound, with asthma, cough and sleep medicine.
Sees patients at: The Wellington · Spire Bushey
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Dr David Evans
Consultant in Respiratory and General Internal Medicine
General respiratory medicine, with expertise in asbestos-related disease, work-related asthma and airways disease.
Sees patients at: Spire Harpenden · Spire Bushey
View profile →See the whole team, including our physiologists and wider specialists →
Where we see patients
Locations
Clinics across central and north-west London, Harrow, Hertfordshire and the Thames Valley.
Central London
The Wellington Hospital, St John's Wood · Cleveland Clinic London
Harrow and north-west London
The Clementine Churchill Hospital · HCA Elstree Waterfront · Bishops Wood Hospital (Circle) · Spire Bushey
Hertfordshire and Thames Valley
One Stop Healthcare (OSD), Hemel Hempstead · Spire Harpenden · Spire Thames Valley · Circle Syon Clinic