56 Dean Street is a friendly, convenient and free NHS sexual health clinic in the heart of London. The service is based in Soho and also offers full outpatient HIV clinic services.

56 Dean Street offers appointments if you:

• want to see a doctor
• are worried or have questions
• need treatment
• have symptoms (you've noticed something wrong)
• have had sex with someone with a confirmed STI/STD
• would like safer sex advice or counselling
• want chem-sex advice
• need contraception (family planning)
• want HIV follow-up care

You can walk-in to 56 Dean Street for:

• P.E.P. (treatment taken for 28 days to prevent HIV Infection after exposure)
• Emergency Contraception
• Emergency Appointments (see below)

Emergency appointments go very quickly. These are reserved for people with urgent problems (eg genital blisters, penile discharge or a partner has told you that they have gonorrhoea, chlamydia, syphilis or LGV). If you hope to be seen, you may be able to to get help, if you arrive when the clinic first opens.

Public Health England recommend that gay men should test every three months if they regularly have unprotected sex with new partners. If not, they should HIV test at least once a year. People who find out early that they have HIV live longer healthier lives than those who test late. That’s why they can offer you a free rapid HIV test throughout the opening hours at Dean Street Express and 56 Dean Street. The tests will give HIV results in 60 seconds.