About the service

Mr Kulkarni has twice a week new patient clinic (Spire Murrayfield Hospital in Edinburgh), Tuesday afternoon (2pm till 5pm) and Thursday evening (4:30pm till 7:30pm) to suit patient’s convenient time.

No referral letter required for a clinic appointment to see Mr Kulkarni, just get in touch, and book the appointment.

He will see insured patients and self-payers as well.
The clinics offer same day diagnostic tests and triple assessment including clinical assessment, ultrasound scan, mammography and core biopsies, cyst aspiration and fine needle aspiration cytology in the one stop clinic. So, patients know about their scan results and get a diagnosis at the same time.

Mr Kulkarni is a part of weekly Multidisciplinary Meeting at Spire Murrayfield Hospital where management plan for all newly diagnosed breast cancer patients is discussed with a group of specialists. There is a team of expert breast radiologists, breast oncologists, pathologists, breast care nurses and plastic surgeon making decision as a team.

He is involved in the diagnosis, care and medical/surgical management of benign breast diseases such as breast pain, benign breast lumps (fibroadenoma, cysts etc), treatment of breast infection and nipple discharge as well as counselling and prophylactic surgery with reconstruction for patients with a high-risk family history of breast cancer.

Mr Kulkarni regularly conduct clinics for screen detected breast abnormalities/cancer patients at the Ardmillan NHS Breast Cancer Screening Centre, Edinburgh.