Our Commitment
Harley Street Health Centre is run by women for women. Our work is a commitment to women and women’s health and our goal is to ensure women are listened to and believed.
Harley Street Health Centre is committed to providing equitable, evidence‑based healthcare regardless of gender or sex. Gender bias in medicine is well documented and contributes to delayed diagnosis, under‑treatment, and poorer health outcomes.
These poorer outcomes are mostly caused by women’s pain and symptoms not being taken sufficiently seriously by the medical establishment.
Evidence of Gender Bias
UK and international data demonstrate a persistent gender health gap. Women experience higher rates of misdiagnosis, longer waits for pain relief, and poorer outcomes in conditions such as cardiovascular disease. Women also spend more years living in ill health despite longer life expectancy. Gender‑diverse patients report high rates of dismissal and barriers to care.
This is unacceptable to us.
Our Clinical Approach
We take symptoms seriously, investigate thoroughly, and avoid gendered assumptions in diagnosis or treatment. Clinical decisions are guided by evidence, not stereotypes.
This includes an awareness of power dynamics, how gender, race and disability can interplay to exacerbate this problem and an awareness of our own biases.
We ensure that we have female clinicians available every day and that women are cared for by women as much as possible.
Accountability
We review outcomes and patient feedback by gender, support clinician training on bias, and commit to continual improvement.
