A 30 minute appointment costs £140. If investigation or treatment is suggested these will incur further costs and this will be made clear during the consultation.

If you already have UK health insurance, you can check with your provider to see if they cover appointments with Locke. Some insurance companies offer their own online GP services, and most international insurance companies will reimburse the cost of your appointment with us.

We offer longer appointments than that within the NHS, so you shouldn’t feel rushed or hurried with the doctor. If, however, you wish to discuss several problems, we would recommend you book a double appointment. This ensures we cover all problems thoroughly, without compromising the quality of your care.

Yes, this is thoroughly encouraged and we believe is one of the key offerings of Locke that enhances great and consistent care.

This is not required. If you have a complex health history then it may be helpful to have details of this to review at your first appointment.

As a private GP clinic, we can refer you to an NHS hospital for urgent or suspected cancer diagnoses. However, we can only refer you to a private specialist for routine consultant appointments.

Yes, you can continue to see your NHS GP whilst a patient at Locke.

No, we do not provide an out of hours service and if you need urgent out of hours attention you should contact 111 or the emergency services as required.

Yes. We have priority access to these, in house at the Nuffield Hospital.

With comprehensive pathology services we have access to most blood tests.

Yes, we can refer to the physiotherapy team at the Nuffield privately.

We are not seeing children (those under the age of 13) currently.

Yes. If a remote consultation is preferred, this can be requested at appointment booking.

If you are not happy with any aspect of our service, we would like to know about it. We request that all formal complaints are put in writing. Please submit these to enquiries@lockemedical.co.uk.

We take great care to put you at ease. Like at the dentist, we use local anaesthetic to numb the tissues we operate on. This involves 2 or 3 injections at the start, after this, it is only mild pressure and movement that can be felt.

While reversals are available, these are expensive and sometimes do not work. It is best to proceed for a vasectomy whilst considering it as permanent.

After semen testing (done 4 months after the procedure) confirms no active semen, this is considered the most effective form of any contraception available, with chances of pregnancy less than 1 in 2000.

No. The discomfort after the procedure may hamper desire for sexual activity for a week or so, but there is no other effect on your sex drive or ability to get an erection after the procedure.

Whilst this is unique for each patient, most men are symptom free and back to their usual activities after a few weeks.

The procedure typically takes around 15 to 20 minutes.

We perform the same technique for all patients which is the most advanced – the minimally invasive, no scalpel vasectomy. This is the modern technique with the best outcomes.

Yes. After a successful vasectomy patients can still ejaculate seminal fluid produced by the seminal vesicles, however, this will not contain sperm.

Yes. You will be able to pass urine like before the procedure.

A small amount of swelling is normal after the procedure. Very rarely, the blood supply to a testicle can be affected by the procedure causing it to become smaller. This risk will be explained through the consenting process.

No. It is important that you use alternative contraception after the procedure until we have tested your semen. There are still active semen “upstream” of the operation site and these need to be flushed out with typically 25 to 30 ejaculations.

The operation is done through a 5mm incision and after a few weeks this is almost invisible.

Whilst everyone is different, most patients will want to rest for a few days.

Paracetamol is usually enough to cover post-operative pain. It is normal to have some discomfort for two to three weeks.