The MOLE Clinic Opens in Manchester

News
10/12/2024


The MOLE Clinic, the only UK private clinic dedicated to skin cancer screening, extends its nationwide presence with the opening of a Manchester clinic at 7 St James Square, in Central Manchester.

The launching of The MOLE Clinic Manchester marks the eighth UK clinic for the group, which has been supporting its patients with early detection of skin cancer for over 21 years.

With more than 35,000 people every year visiting its specialist medical teams at the existing clinics located in London (3 sites: Harley Street, Oxford Circus and Moorgate), Bristol, Brighton, Edinburgh and Glasgow, the company’s mission is to help lower the UK skin cancer mortality rate with its innovative, highest-quality screening services, and make those services widely available and easily accessible.  

The MOLE Clinic was founded by lawyer Iain Mack who was diagnosed with melanoma skin cancer in 2002. He quickly became passionate about assisting others to detect skin cancers early to help improve UK survival rates.  Iain subsequently founded The MOLE Clinic® in London in 2003 and pioneered skin cancer screening in the UK, and developed The Mole Clinic Screening Nurse Training Programme - the only such programme accredited by the Royal College of Nursing.

He also developed the UK’s first Skin Cancer Screening App using AI. The App has been used by NHS GPs since 2005, reducing NHS waiting times and costs. The App won the UK Patient Safety Awards and was exhibited in the London Science Museum. Iain was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine in 2005 and has been nominated as finalist in Laing Buisson Healthcare Awards for 'Entrepreneurial Achievement'.

Iain Mack, Founder and MD comments:

“If detected early, life-threatening skin cancers can be easily treated, and with no waiting lists and mole screening reports received within one to three days, we can provide peace of mind to patients very quickly. 

“We are keen to continue our drive to make mole screening as accessible as possible. Manchester has excellent transportation links, and affords patients easy access from outlying areas of Greater Manchester, Cheshire, Lancashire, Derbyshire, and even Merseyside and West Yorkshire.

“With skin cancer rates on the increase, our underlying aim is to raise awareness of the importance of early detection and to promote the normalisation of regular mole checks, so much like dental and optometrist visits, they become an integral part of a person’s annual health routine”.


The clinic group offers; Full Body Mole Checks with specialist nurses, to discuss a patient’s personal risk for skin cancer and to examine all visible moles to identify any which are visually abnormal. Also available is Full Body Mole Mapping with laser-guided, full body photography by a specialist nurse as the basis for regular photographic surveillance to identify new or changing moles.

Additionally, patients can have a Single Mole Check, using a dermoscopic lens to take a high-quality, detailed image beneath the surface of a mole to show features invisible to the naked eye and enable diagnosis of the very earliest basal cell, squamous cell and melanoma skin cancers. The dermoscopic image will be sent for rapid remote review by an expert doctor.

For a mole identified as requiring referral by a MOLE Clinic doctor or by a patient’s own GP, The MOLE Clinic can offer a consultation with a Consultant usually within just a few days. The Consultant will clinically review the mole and advise if removal is needed.  If so, they will discuss the method of removal and the procedure costs, recovery, likely outcomes, meeting your expectations, risks and complications.

More information on The MOLE Clinic can be found at https://www.themoleclinic.co.uk/