Patient Information · After Your Visit

Scan Results and Reports

Two moments matter after a scan: hearing what it showed, and holding the report that proves it. Here the first happens before you leave the room, and the second usually within two hours.

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At the scanVerbal Findings Explained
2 hrsTypical Written Report Turnaround
SecureEmail Delivery, Images On Request
YouDecide Who Else Sees It
The Timeline

When you get your results

Verbal findings — immediately, at the scanYour sonographer explains what the examination showed while you are still in the room: plain English, screen in view, questions welcome. This is not a courtesy summary. It is the substance of your results, delivered by the person who just performed the examination.

Written report — usually within two hours, by secure emailThe formal document follows: findings, measurements and a clear conclusion, written to clinical-referral standard so whoever you share it with can act on it without asking us to translate. Images can be requested alongside it.

If something needs urgent attention, we do not wait for emailWhere a finding requires prompt action, we telephone you directly rather than leaving it to arrive in an inbox. That call comes before the written report, not after it.
Your Report, Your Choice

Sharing it — and why we recommend you do

The report is released to you. It enters no other system automatically, and who else sees it is entirely your decision.

That said — when a finding needs acting on, share it with your GP or specialist. The report is written for exactly that handover, and NHS care can proceed on the strength of good private imaging without repeating it.

Sending it to a named consultant, physiotherapist or fertility clinic instead is equally routine. Tell us where it is going and we will write with that reader in mind.

More on both points: private ultrasound and your privacy, and how NHS and private ultrasound compare.

What your report contains

  • The clinical question the scan was asked to answer
  • Structured findings, organ by organ or region by region
  • Measurements, with normal ranges where they matter
  • A plain conclusion — and, where relevant, the specific next test
  • Representative images on request

Making Sense Of It

Understanding what your report says

Delivery is this page. Interpretation is a library of its own. If you are reading a report and want the terminology decoded, start with the general guide and then the one for your scan type.

Understanding your ultrasound results →
What your abdominal report means →
What your pelvic report means →
What your pregnancy scan report means →
What your MSK report means →
The plain-English ultrasound glossary →

One thing worth holding on to: every report we issue was already explained to you in person. The document should confirm what you heard at the appointment, not surprise you. If it reads differently from what you remember being told, call us and we will go through it with you.

Before and Next

The rest of your visit

BeforePreparation for Your Scan

Which scans need fasting, which need a full bladder, and which need nothing at all.

How to prepare →DuringWhat to Expect

Arrival, the examination itself, chaperones, and how findings are discussed in the room.

What happens →NextFollow-Up Care

Normal, monitor or refer — what each pathway means and how onward care is arranged.

What happens next →

Answers in the room, evidence in your inbox

Findings explained at your scan by the clinician who performed it, and a written report usually within two hours — written so your GP or consultant can act on it directly.

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Scan, interpretation and report

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5a Lucerne Mews
Kensington, London W8 4ED
3 mins from Notting Hill Gate

CQC Registered Clinic
HCPC-Registered Sonographers
Reports Written To Referral Standard
No GP Referral Needed

Written and clinically reviewed by the HCPC-registered sonographers who perform these scans at IUS London — a CQC-registered diagnostic ultrasound clinic (Provider ID 1-2775844974). Your own findings are explained to you at the scan and set out in your report.

Author: Yianni Kiromitis, Senior Sonographer, HCPC RA38415
Medically reviewed: 31 July 2026