Russian-speaking doctors and clinics in London: eight addresses checked against the registers

There are dozens of "Russian doctors in London" lists online. Almost all of them are advertising: a place on the list is bought, not earned. We went the other way. We took the clinics people talk about in the Russian-speaking community and checked each one against the public registers — the clinic against CQC, the doctors against the GMC and GDC, the legal entity against Companies House. And separately we checked whether the clinic itself says anywhere that Russian is spoken.

Eight addresses passed — with honest notes where the claim about Russian is not backed by anything. All details as at 10 September 2026.

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General practice

Baltic Medical Centre — Canary Wharf

The only place on this list that calls itself a Russian-speaking clinic in its own words: "Baltic Medical Centre — частная русскоязычная клиника" on its own Russian-language site, which is a full translation rather than a page.

• Address: Unit 121, Meridian Place, Canary Wharf, London E14 9FE. Note: the clinic's own site prints E14 9FF, but both the CQC register and Companies House give E14 9FE. Both postcodes exist and are adjacent; use the official one.
• Phone: 020 7515 2714
• Hours: Mon–Sat 09:00–19:00, closed Sunday
• CQC: registered, rated Good across all five domains, report published 21 July 2023. Legal entity: Baltic Medical Centre Limited
• Treats: family medicine, gynaecology, paediatrics, fertility, ultrasound, allergy testing, blood tests, cardiology, dermatology, ENT, neurology, urology, minor surgery, online consultations

Jenna Clinic — Belsize Park

• Address: 28 England's Lane, Belsize Park, London NW3 4UE
• Phone: 020 7722 2886, mobile 078 0560 8996
• CQC: registered, rated Good across all five domains. Inspected 7 November 2019, reviewed July 2023 with no reassessment required. Legal entity: Jenna (UK) Limited
• Treats: general practice, paediatrics, gynaecology, ultrasound (including 3D/4D and pregnancy), ECG, manual therapy, laboratory tests, IVF with donor eggs
• On Russian — with a caveat: the site's own page title reads "Jenna Clinic, Russian, Polish, Lithuanian Doctors" and its description mentions Russian doctors. But those are the page's metadata; we could not confirm a statement in the visible body text. Ask by phone in advance
• Hours: the clinic publishes only "Mon–Sunday"; no specific times

London Doctors Clinic — private GPs, Russian on request

A private GP chain. Its own languages page says: "Our Private GPs can consult in many languages and we will always try our best to book you in with a GP who speaks your preferred language" — and Russian is on the list. Booking in that case goes through a separate number, 020 8712 3390.

An important caveat: no location is identified as one where a Russian-speaking GP is regularly present. Availability is established when you call.

A second caveat worth knowing. The site advertises sixteen locations. Under the legal entity The Doctors Clinic Group Ltd (also known as London Doctors Clinic), the CQC register shows four active London locations:

• Kings Cross — 283 Gray's Inn Road, WC1X 8QF
• Liverpool Street — First Floor, 8 & 9 New Street, EC2M 4TP
• London Bridge — Collegiate House, 9 St Thomas Street, SE1 9RY
• Soho — 6 Newburgh Street, Carnaby, W1F 7RQ (marketed on the site as "Oxford Street")

The rest are either rooms inside hospitals registered to other providers, or addresses we could not tie to any registration; two are not in London at all. None of the four London locations has been inspected, so none carries a rating. General number: 020 3553 0266.

Psychiatry

The London Psychiatry Centre — Harley Street

The most fully verifiable case on this list: a named doctor with a register number you can check yourself.

• Address: 72 Harley Street, London W1G 7HG
• Phone: 020 7580 4224
• Hours: Mon–Fri 09:00–18:00
• CQC: registered, rated Good overall and Outstanding for effectiveness. Inspected 20 October 2023
• Doctor: Dr Irina Panihhidina. The clinic states that she offers psychiatric consultations in English, Russian and Estonian, Russian being a second native language. We checked her on the GMC register: number 7021478, registered with a licence to practise, on the Specialist Register for general psychiatry since 10 December 2010

That is the check you can run yourself in two minutes: find the GMC number on the clinic's site, put it into the register, and look not merely for registration but for the licence.

Dentistry

First, something to prevent a false conclusion: CQC has no legal power to award ratings to dental services. A dental practice without a "Good" rating is not deficient — that is how the regulation works. What matters instead is whether the practice is registered and when it was last inspected.

Vidadent — Bethnal Green

The headline of its own Russian-language site reads "VIDADENT — русский стоматолог в Лондоне" (a Russian dentist in London). Full Russian and Ukrainian versions exist.

• Address: 252 Bethnal Green Road, London E2 0AA
• Phone: 020 7729 1385, mobile 07575 222 862
• Hours: Mon–Fri 10:00–19:00, Sat 10:00–18:00
• CQC: registered as Vidadent Practice, legal entity Felinski & Co Limited. Last inspected 30 March 2017 with no action required. An inspection almost ten years old — not a breach, but a fact worth knowing
• Treats: preventive, restorative and cosmetic dentistry, alignment, prosthetics, implants, root canal treatment under a microscope

M Dental — Greenwich

Its Greenwich page carries a "Languages Available" section listing Russian explicitly, alongside Ukrainian, Georgian, Polish, Romanian and others.

• Address: 1 Harrison Walk, London SE10 0YL
• Phone: 0204 541 8517
• Hours: Mon–Fri 10:00–18:00, Sat 10:00–16:00
• CQC: registered, but not yet inspected — CQC says so directly
• Access: step-free, wheelchair accessible

Forest & Ray — Bloomsbury

• Address: 8F Gilbert Place, London WC1A 2JD
• Phone: 020 8124 6138. The CQC record prints the number one digit short — a register error; use the number from the site
• CQC: registered, legal entity Forest & Ray Ltd. Last inspected 28 December 2016, "no action" across all domains
• Clinicians: we checked two on the GDC register — Lydia Dzhukha, number 248624, status registered; and Nikolaos Kasiteridis, number 206611, status registered. Both registrations run to 31 December 2026
• On Russian — with a caveat: the practice describes itself as working "with an international staff in London: Greek dentists, Hungarian dentists, Russian dentists, Italian Dentists and Polish Dentists." There is no explicit statement that Russian is spoken and no named Russian-speaking clinician
• Hours: "open 7 days a week"; no specific times published

Medidenta — Welling

Included with the strongest caveat on the list, and here is why.

• Address: 60–62 Welling High Street, DA16 1TQ. Formally this is the London Borough of Bexley, but CQC records the county as Kent
• Phone: 075 7677 5552 and 020 8306 1115, from the practice's own site. CQC lists a different mobile number, apparently out of date
• CQC: registered as Medidenta Medical Practice, legal entity Medidenta Limited. Inspected 14 February 2020, no action required
• On Russian: there is no statement anywhere on the site that Russian is spoken. What exists is a fully translated Russian version and a language switcher offering Russian alongside Lithuanian, Polish and Ukrainian. These are different things: a translated website does not mean a Russian-speaking clinician in the chair. Ask when you book
• The short Russian URL returns a server error; the working Russian page is at the full address
• Hours: not published

What is not on this list, and why

We found no NHS practice in London stating that Russian is spoken. We searched practice websites and nhs.uk profiles with several phrasings. Not one London NHS practice publicly advertises Russian-speaking staff. An honest caveat: some NHS practice sites block automated checking, so the correct phrasing is "not found", not "does not exist". And more importantly, it does not matter: as we set out separately, an NHS interpreter is free and the practice must book one.

Directories and "rankings of Russian doctors" are deliberately absent. Advertising directories and professional listing sites publish whoever has paid or whoever has described themselves. They verify nothing. We came across a profile claiming a "full GMC clinical licence" where the GMC register showed registration without a licence to practise. That difference is fundamental, and it is visible only in the register.

One clinic did not make the list, and the reason is instructive. Checking places that advertise heavily in the Russian-speaking community, we found one where neither the name nor the address appears in the CQC register, and where companies bearing that name are recorded at Companies House as dissolved. The website is live and carries a mobile number. We are not naming it — the service may be provided through a different legal entity, and the trading name simply does not show that. But this is exactly the situation in which you should not pay in advance: ask which legal entity holds the CQC registration, and check it yourself.

Concierge services are not clinics. Some services selling "a Russian doctor" provide no medical care themselves: they are intermediaries who book you with third parties. In that case the thing to check is not the intermediary but whoever you are booked with.

How to use this list

1. Call and ask directly: is there a clinician who speaks Russian, and when do they work? A translated website does not answer that question.
2. Ask for the GMC or GDC number of the specific clinician and check it yourself at gmc-uk.org and olr.gdc-uk.org. A doctor needs registration and a licence to practise.
3. Check the clinic at cqc.org.uk by name and by address. CQC registers the legal entity, not the sign above the door.
4. Remember that everything above is private medicine, paid for. On the NHS you are entitled to a free interpreter, and that often solves the problem more cheaply.

If you know a clinic or a doctor that is not here, tell us. We will check the registers and add them — or explain why we did not.