Private scan prices in the UK
What UK private imaging operators publish for MRI, CT, ultrasound, X-ray, DEXA, echocardiogram, mammogram and pregnancy scans — read from each operator’s own pages, filed by exactly which scan is priced, with the source and the date beside every figure.
22 of the 28 UK private imaging operators we checked publish a price we could tie to a named scan, read from their own pages on 5 October 2026. Nuffield Health’s MRI and CT prices come from its 33 hospital price schedules, read separately.
How much does a private scan cost in the UK?
According to TreatCompare’s read of 28 UK private imaging operators on 5 October 2026, 22 publish a price that could be tied to a named scan, 2 could not be read, and 3 carried no price on the pages read.
According to TreatCompare, 4 UK operators publish a fixed price for a one-area CT scan, from £350 (Practice Plus Group) to £650 (Nuffield Health).
According to TreatCompare, 5 UK operators publish a fixed price for an abdominal ultrasound, from £159 (IUS London) to £250 (360 Med).
According to TreatCompare, 6 UK operators publish a fixed price for a pelvic ultrasound, from £159 (IUS London) to £250 (360 Med).
According to TreatCompare, 4 UK operators publish a fixed price for a testicular ultrasound, from £159 (IUS London) to £250 (360 Med).
Source: TreatCompare read of each operator’s own price pages, 28 operators, 5 October 2026.
Prices by type of scan
MRI scan
Lowest published starting price: £199 (MRI Plus, Lowest advertised MRI price)
15 operators with a figure
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CT scan
Lowest published price: £350 (Practice Plus Group, CT, one body area)
6 operators with a figure · 1 scan with a range across 4+ operators
Compare CT scan prices
Ultrasound scan
Lowest published price: £159 (IUS London, Abdominal ultrasound)
11 operators with a figure · 3 scans with a range across 4+ operators
Compare ultrasound scan prices
X-ray
Lowest published starting price: £70 (Oryon Imaging, Lowest advertised X-ray price)
5 operators with a figure
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Echocardiogram
Lowest published price: £236 (Practice Plus Group, Echocardiogram (resting))
7 operators with a figure · 1 scan with a range across 4+ operators
Compare echocardiogram prices
DEXA scan
Lowest published starting price: £115 (Oryon Imaging, Lowest advertised DEXA price)
4 operators with a figure
Compare DEXA scan prices
Pregnancy scan
Lowest published price: £65 (Ultrasound Direct, Gender scan)
7 operators with a figure · 5 scans with a range across 4+ operators
Compare pregnancy scan prices
Mammogram
Lowest published starting price: £395 (Scan.com, Mammogram)
1 operator with a figure
One operator publishes a figure, so there is no comparison page yet.
Every scan we track
A range appears only where 4 or more operators publish a fixed price for exactly that scan. Below that, the lowest published figure is shown with its operator and the scan page names every operator. Starting prices never enter a range.
| Scan | Operators with a figure | Published prices |
|---|---|---|
| Lowest advertised MRI price | 8 | Lowest starting price £199 (MRI Plus) |
| MRI, one body area | 6 (2 fixed) | Lowest starting price £290 (Unirad) |
| MRI, two body areas | 3 (1 fixed) | Lowest price £588 (Practice Plus Group) |
| MRI, three body areas | 3 (1 fixed) | Lowest price £825 (Practice Plus Group) |
| MRI contrast (add-on) | 2 (1 fixed) | Lowest starting price £103 (Cobalt Health) |
| Open or upright MRI | 3 | Lowest starting price £305 (Scan.com) |
| Full-body MRI package | 4 | Lowest starting price £765 (Vista Health) |
| Lowest advertised CT price | 2 | Lowest starting price £360 (Scan.com) |
| CT, one body area | 5 (4 fixed) | £350 to £650 median £420 |
| CT, two body areas | 3 (2 fixed) | Lowest price £588 (Practice Plus Group) |
| CT, three body areas | 3 (2 fixed) | Lowest starting price £790 (Cobalt Health) |
| CT, each additional area | 2 (2 fixed) | Lowest price £100 (360 Med) |
| CT contrast (add-on) | 2 (1 fixed) | Lowest starting price £34 (Cobalt Health) |
| Lowest advertised X-ray price | 2 | Lowest starting price £70 (Oryon Imaging) |
| X-ray, one body area | 3 (2 fixed) | Lowest price £99 (360 Med) |
| X-ray, two body areas | 1 (0 fixed) | Lowest starting price £240 (Cobalt Health) |
| Lowest advertised ultrasound price | 3 | Lowest starting price £175 (Vista Health) |
| Ultrasound, one body area (any type) | 2 (1 fixed) | Lowest price £236 (Practice Plus Group) |
| Abdominal ultrasound | 5 (5 fixed) | £159 to £250 median £219 |
| Pelvic (gynaecological) ultrasound | 6 (6 fixed) | £159 to £250 median £204 |
| Breast ultrasound | 3 (2 fixed) | Lowest price £189 (IUS London) |
| Testicular ultrasound | 4 (4 fixed) | £159 to £250 median £190 |
| Musculoskeletal ultrasound, one joint | 3 (3 fixed) | Lowest price £160 (The Scan Clinic) |
| DVT (leg vein) Doppler ultrasound | 2 (2 fixed) | Lowest price £179 (IUS London) |
| Carotid Doppler ultrasound | 2 (2 fixed) | Lowest price £189 (IUS London) |
| Abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) ultrasound | 3 (2 fixed) | Lowest price £69 (The Scan Clinic) |
| Early pregnancy (viability) scan | 6 (5 fixed) | £75 to £250 median £119 |
| Dating scan | 5 (4 fixed) | £75 to £250 median £120 |
| Gender scan | 5 (5 fixed) | £65 to £250 median £139 |
| Growth scan | 7 (6 fixed) | £90 to £250 median £165 |
| Anomaly (20-week) scan | 5 (4 fixed) | £200 to £250 median £245 |
| Lowest advertised DEXA price | 2 | Lowest starting price £115 (Oryon Imaging) |
| DEXA bone density scan | 3 (2 fixed) | Lowest price £125 (360 Med) |
| DEXA body composition scan | 1 (0 fixed) | Lowest starting price £125 (Scan.com) |
| Echocardiogram (resting) | 7 (5 fixed) | £236 to £450 median £295 |
| Mammogram | 1 (0 fixed) | Lowest starting price £395 (Scan.com) |
Operators checked
22 of 28 with a readable priceListed alphabetically; the order is not a ranking. An operator is a business, not a site: a booking service over many centres counts once. “Could not be read” means the read failed — a block, a bot challenge or an expired certificate — and is not a finding about the operator’s prices. Nuffield Health is not in this list: its MRI and CT prices come from its own hospital schedules (33 hospitals), read for the NHS-vs-private pages.
| Operator | Type | What the read found |
|---|---|---|
| 360 Med Muswell Hill, London (ultrasound on site; MRI, CT, X-ray and DEXA through partner centres) | Imaging provider | Price read 16 figures read from its own pages and filed under a named scan. |
| Babybond | Pregnancy scan clinic | Could not be read Its pages could not be read (fetch-failed: CERT_HAS_EXPIRED). That is a failed read, not a finding about its prices. |
| Cobalt Health | Imaging provider | Price read 11 figures read from its own pages and filed under a named scan. |
| InHealth | Imaging provider | No price captured from the pages read The pages we read carried no price. It may quote on enquiry, or load prices with scripts our reader does not run — this is not a finding that it publishes none. |
| IUS London London | Ultrasound clinic | Price read 12 figures read from its own pages and filed under a named scan. |
| LivingCare Leeds and Sheffield | Imaging provider | Price read 4 figures read from its own pages and filed under a named scan. |
| London Cardiology Clinics London | Cardiology clinic | Price read 1 figure read from its own pages and filed under a named scan. |
| London Private Ultrasound London | Ultrasound clinic | Price read 5 figures read from its own pages and filed under a named scan. |
| London Sports & Rheumatology Imaging Harley Street and Harrow, London | Imaging provider | Price read 1 figure read from its own pages and filed under a named scan. |
| Medical Imaging Partnership | Imaging provider | No price captured from the pages read The pages we read carried no price. It may quote on enquiry, or load prices with scripts our reader does not run — this is not a finding that it publishes none. |
| Medserena Upright MRI London and Manchester | Imaging provider | No price captured from the pages read The pages we read carried no price. It may quote on enquiry, or load prices with scripts our reader does not run — this is not a finding that it publishes none. |
| MRI Plus | Imaging provider | Price read 1 figure read from its own pages and filed under a named scan. |
| One5 Health Harley Street, London | Screening clinic | Figures not attributable to one scan Its pages print prices, but none could be tied to exactly one of the scans compared here, so none is shown as one. |
| Oryon Imaging Central London | Imaging provider | Price read 4 figures read from its own pages and filed under a named scan. |
| Pall Mall Medical | Imaging provider | Price read 2 figures read from its own pages and filed under a named scan. |
| Practice Plus Group | Hospital | Price read 8 figures read from its own pages and filed under a named scan. |
| Prenuvo London | Screening clinic | Price read 1 figure read from its own pages and filed under a named scan. |
| Private Ultrasound Scans London London | Ultrasound clinic | Price read 6 figures read from its own pages and filed under a named scan. |
| Scan.com UK-wide booking service over partner scanning centres | Booking marketplace | Price read 19 figures read from its own pages and filed under a named scan. |
| Sonoworld Marylebone, London | Cardiology clinic | Price read 1 figure read from its own pages and filed under a named scan. |
| St John & St Elizabeth Hospital London | Hospital | Price read 2 figures read from its own pages and filed under a named scan. |
| The Scan Clinic London | Ultrasound clinic | Price read 10 figures read from its own pages and filed under a named scan. |
| Ultrasound Diagnostic Services | Ultrasound clinic | Price read 4 figures read from its own pages and filed under a named scan. |
| Ultrasound Direct | Pregnancy scan clinic | Price read 5 figures read from its own pages and filed under a named scan. |
| Unirad Glasgow | Imaging provider | Price read 1 figure read from its own pages and filed under a named scan. |
| VisitHealth London | Imaging provider | Price read 1 figure read from its own pages and filed under a named scan. |
| Vista Health UK-wide scanning centres | Imaging provider | Price read 16 figures read from its own pages and filed under a named scan. |
| Window to the Womb | Pregnancy scan clinic | Could not be read Its pages could not be read (challenge: bot challenge served instead of the page). That is a failed read, not a finding about its prices. |
The NHS side: waiting times
On the NHS these scans are free at the point of use; what differs is the wait. NHS waiting times sit beside private hospital prices on the NHS vs private pages:
How these prices are read
- Each figure is read from the operator’s own page and filed under one scan by a rule written against the operator’s own label. A label we have no rule for is not read.
- A one-area MRI, a two-area MRI and a full-body package are different scans and are never put in one range. Pregnancy scans are their own family.
- “From” and “starting from” prices are floors. They are labelled, attributed and never averaged.
- A range appears only where 4 operators publish a fixed price for the same scan. Its median uses one figure per operator.
- A price that bundles a consultant or GP appointment is marked and kept out of ranges.
- Where an operator prints two different figures for the same scan, both are shown.
Prices only. Which scan you need, and whether you need one, is a clinical question for a doctor or the referring clinician. Some operators ask for a referral, or run their own clinical check, before a scan is booked. TreatCompare does not take bookings.
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