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Dr Simmy Kaur, founder of The Nine Clinic, was selected as a recommended private GP and contributer to the Tatler Doctors Guide 2026. The guide names Dr Kaur and The Nine Clinic amongst a group of highly respected private GPs whose professional insight helped shape Tatler’s list of trusted specialists. It’s a different kind of recognition to a clinic award, one built on peer trust rather than a judged submission.
Tatler’s Doctors Guide is an annual list identifying leading private specialists across the UK, built to help readers find trusted medical care outside the NHS. To compile the 2026 edition, Tatler identified around 45 respected private GPs using recommendations, online reviews, popularity and geographic spread. These GPs were then approached for their professional insight and recommendations on leading specialists in their field.
For readers, the guide functions as a shortcut through an otherwise opaque market: rather than searching blind for a dermatologist or a cardiologist, they can start from a list shaped by GPs who refer patients to specialists as part of their daily work.
Dr Kaur’s inclusion reflects standing built over years of NHS and private private, along with work across leading teaching hospitals before founding The Nine Clinic. Tatler’s GPs page names her among the private GPs whose recommendations informed the guide, a role built on clinical judgement and a working knowledge of which specialists patients can trust for a given condition. You can read more about her background on The Nine Clinic’s team page.
It’s worth being precise about what this recognition is and isn’t. Dr Kaur wasn’t ranked or featured as one of the guide’s specialist listings, she was one of the private GP’s Tatler approached for professional insight and recommendations regarding leading specialists. In practice, that means her opinion carried weight in how the guide itself was assembled, which is arguably a stronger form of professional trust than a listing alone, since it reflects the view of other clinicians rather than public reviews.
A private GP’s value often lies as much in who they refer a patient to, as in what they treat directly. When a patient needs a cardiologist, dermatologist or specialist surgeon, the strength of that referral depends on the GP’s own network and judgement, built up over years of working alongside specialists and seeing which ones deliver for their patients. Being consulted for the Tatler Doctors Guide reflects the kind of referral relationships The Nine Clinic maintains on behalf of its patients, and a level of trust that other GP’s place in that judgement.
This is easy to overlook when comparing private GPs on the basis of appointment availability or consultation fees alone. Two clinics can offer near-identical booking systems and pricing, yet differ substantially in the quality of the specialist network behind them. A guide compiled from GP recommendations, rather than advertising or self-submission, is one of the few ways patients can see that difference from outside the profession. It’s the same clinical judgement Tatler drew on when compiling its guide, applied directly to the patients sitting in front of the clinic’s own doctors.
At The Nine Clinic, a private GP consultation is often the first step in a longer pathway rather than the end point. If a patient needs further investigation or specialist treatment, our doctors coordinate referrals directly rather than leaving patients to navigate that process alone. This continuity between GP care and specialist treatment is central to how the clinic operates across its Harley Street and Sloane Square locations, and forms part of the broader services and fees patients can expect from a first consultation onward.
Dr Kaur’s career spans NHS general practice and leading teaching hospitals before she founded The Nine Clinic, bringing that clinical grounding into private practice. It’s this breadth of experience, not just current patient numbers, that publications like Tatler draw on when identifying GPs whose professional opinion carries weight, alongside the recommendations, reviews and geographic spread the guide uses to build its wider list.
A newer private clinic can build a loyal patient base relatively quickly with the right service and location. Being consulted by a national title for its clinical opinion is a slower thing to earn, and tends to follow years of practice rather than a single strong quarter.
To arrange a private GP consultation with The Nine Clinic, call 020 3084 1600 or email info@thenineclinic.com. Our team can also advise on corporate healthcare arrangements via our corporate page. If a specialist referral turns out to be the next step in your care, that’s a conversation we can start at the same appointment.
Dr Simmy Kaur was selected as one of the top GP contributor’s to the Tatler Doctors Guide 2026, one of around 45 respected private GPs whose recommendations helped Tatler compile the guide. Tatler identified this group using recommendations, online reviews, popularity and geographic spread.
It means Tatler approached Dr Kaur for her professional insight and recommendations regarding leading specialists, drawing on her clinical experience and referral network. It reflects trust from peers and the guide’s compilers, rather than a public vote or review score.
Dr Kaur is the founder of The Nine Clinic, with private GP clinics on Harley Street and Sloane Square in London.
Call 020 3084 1600 or email info@thenineclinic.com to arrange a private GP consultation at either clinic location.