Speed with Integrity: The Ethical Foundation of True Same-Day Diagnosis

By Dr Soumit Singhai FRCP
Consultant Geriatrician, Memory & Brain Clinic London

Speed is easily sold. Truth is harder to deliver.

At Memory & Brain Clinic London, we don’t trade nuance for headlines.
True Same-Day Diagnosis is not a promotional slogan — it is a clinical design.
It is an organised, consultant-led process that brings assessment, imaging, interpretation, and discussion together in one coherent day.
That coherence is the difference between answers that help — and answers that confuse.

The Illusion of Speed

Across healthcare, “same-day” has become a fashionable term — easy to advertise, but harder to deliver.
In other private memory clinics, it often means that something happens on the same day — an appointment, a scan, perhaps a blood test — but rarely the whole answer.

In reality, what patients receive is a fragmented journey disguised as speed: separate appointments, delayed interpretation, and results explained days or even weeks later.
It looks fast, but it isn’t clarity — it’s motion without resolution.

Authenticity in Clinical Design

A useful analogy comes from a different world — craftsmanship.
A sofa advertised as “Italian design and leather” might only use imported hides, stitched elsewhere, following none of the standards or artistry that make Italian craftsmanship admired.
It borrows the language of authenticity, but not the artisan process that earns it.

In the same way, some private memory clinics that advertise same-day assessments or same-day evaluations borrow the vocabulary of speed without the substance of coherence and integration.
True authenticity lies not in what it’s called, but in how it’s made.

Speed That Serves Understanding

True Same-Day Diagnosis isn’t about acceleration — it’s about integration.
The entire day is constructed to serve one outcome: clarity.

Every investigation flows logically into interpretation; every interpretation into consultant discussion; every discussion into a clear plan for the patient and family before they leave the clinic.

This design removes uncertainty rather than creating it.
It ensures that speed never undermines depth — it enables it.

For a full overview of how our structured pathways achieve this, see our diagnostic process:
https://memoryandbraincliniclondon.co.uk/expert-memory-dementia-specialist-care-harley-street-london/

Integrity as the Final Measure

For us, integrity means refusing to dilute meaning for marketing convenience.
It means only using words like “same-day” when the patient truly receives a full, same-day answer.

The difference between describing and delivering is not semantic — it is ethical.

True integrity also means communicating in the same spirit as we practise — writing with the same honesty with which we diagnose.
Values are not slogans; they are actions — written, spoken, and lived.

And integrity must extend into the future, because words carry forward.
What a patient reads today must still be true when they experience our care tomorrow.

Because in medicine, integrity is not a slogan. It is the structure beneath everything that deserves to be called care.

Contact

Memory & Brain Clinic London
10 Harley Street, London W1G 9PF
Tel: 0207 062 7248
Email: drsinghaisecretary@outlook.com

About the Author

Dr Soumit Singhai FRCP is a consultant geriatrician with specialist expertise in cognitive and movement disorders, including Alzheimer’s, Lewy body, and Parkinsonian dementias.
He leads the Memory & Brain Clinic London and developed the Same-Day Diagnostic Clarity Pathway™ — a consultant-led diagnostic model offering genuine same-day clarity for patients and families.
Dr Singhai’s work combines precision medicine with an ethical philosophy of care grounded in coherence, compassion, and truth.