Wimpole Clinic

London, United Kingdom

Dr Mir Malkani ✓ verified

4.8 composite score 2,003 reviews · 2 platforms high confidence

Wimpole Clinic is a hair-transplant clinic verified across independent sources in London, led by Dr Mir Malkani (verified in an authority-body directory). Indicative pricing: From £2,999–£3,499 for FUE/FUT; clinic states a typical range of £3,500–£7,000, inclusive of pre-care, surgery, aftercare and medication with no added VAT. Cross-checked against 7 independent sources; ratings below are shown per platform, unblended.

You can't pay to be listed here 7 independent sources Honest negatives kept, not hidden

4.8 Trustpilot 1,759 reviews 4.5 Google 244 reviews

Surgeon & safety signals

What Reddit and forum users actually argue about: who does the work, and whether it's a "hair mill". We state only what's verified; the rest is honestly marked not disclosed.

Hair-mill riskNot enough data

ISHRS / authority memberYes, directory-verified

Years in hair restoration35+ yrs

Named surgeonYes

Doctor performs incisionsNot disclosed

Doctor performs extractionNot disclosed

Surgeon involvementClinic states the procedure is performed by a GMC-registered surgeon accompanied by a team of technicians who support them throughout; no step-level attribution published

Technician involvementin-house technician team supports the surgeon throughout the procedure (clinic's own wording); named theatre staff include a surgical technician and a theatre manager with 22 years' experience

Procedures per dayNot disclosed

Revision rateNot disclosed

Surgeons

Dr Mir Malkani verified

MBBS, FRCS; GMC 4702052 (as published on the clinic's surgeon page); FULL MEMBER of the ISHRS — confirmed in the ISHRS's own directory (profile 49812), listed under 'Wimpole Clinic'. One of the earliest FUE surgeons in the UK, with a claimed 7,000+ procedures over 21 years.

Verified profile ↗ (https://wimpole.com/our-surgeons/)

Mr Michael May

FRCS; GMC 1642315 (as published by the clinic, not re-checked against the GMC register); Medical Director and Principal Surgeon; qualified at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, then trained and registered as a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons; more than 35 years in hair transplant surgery and over 10,000 procedures claimed. No hair-restoration authority-body membership located for him in this pass.

Photo source ↗ (https://wimpole.com/our-surgeons/)

Real patient discussion

Independent forum threads and community posts we found while verifying this clinic. Read the unfiltered patient experience, not just the marketing.

Pricing

From £2,999–£3,499 for FUE/FUT; clinic states a typical range of £3,500–£7,000, inclusive of pre-care, surgery, aftercare and medication with no added VAT · source: https://wimpole.com/prices-how-much-does-hair-transplant-cost/

Price published by the clinic. Source: https://wimpole.com/prices-how-much-does-hair-transplant-cost/

Contact

Website	wimpole.com/
Phone	020 7935 1861
Email	[email protected]
Google Maps	View on Maps
Accreditations	ISHRS Full Member held by one named surgeon, Dr Mir Malkani — verified in the ISHRS member directory, profile 49812, Care Quality Commission (CQC) registered, Institute of Trichologists, All listed surgeons carry published GMC numbers

Notable

Established 1975 and the largest independent operator in this set, with an unusually transparent surgeon roster: every surgeon listed publicly with a GMC number printed next to their name, which almost no UK competitor does. One of them, Dr Mir Malkani, is verifiable as an ISHRS Full Member in the society's own directory.

Sources & verification

Compiled into the 2026-08-14 dataset build. No separate re-verification date is recorded for this clinic. Placed by verification, never by payment.

Editorial note: UPGRADED ONE PRINCIPAL, HELD THE TIER. Dr Mir Malkani was found in the ISHRS's own member directory (profile 49812) as a FULL MEMBER listed under Wimpole Clinic, so he moves to verified:true — the original submission wrongly recorded him as unverified. That single fact would mechanically qualify this entry for Tier 1, but it is deliberately held at TIER 2, because the entry describes a fifteen-surgeon brand, not that surgeon: a patient who books 'Wimpole Clinic' is not thereby booking Malkani, and the brand's aggregate rating cannot answer which surgeon they get. Michael May stays verified:false — GMC number is clinic-published only and no authority-body membership was found for him. CORRECTED: the roster is FIFTEEN named surgeons on the current page, not eighteen as submitted. ADDRESS/DOMAIN SPLIT to disclose: the brand runs both wimpole.com (2 Harley Street) and wimpoleclinic.com, and the ISHRS record for Malkani gives 20 Harley Street — three addresses across two live domains for one brand. Trustpilot count is moving and was returned differently by two checks (1,759 vs 1,611); re-pull before publication. Community verdict is genuinely SPLIT and the directory should show both sides: a thread titled 'Wimpole clinic not recommended' sits alongside patients in the same thread reporting their own 2,000-graft procedure 'went like a dream'. A separate thread notes 2,500 grafts is about the per-session ceiling here, which commenters frame as responsible rather than restrictive. Marketing uses self-conferred superlatives ('Voted UK Hair Transplant Clinic of 2026').