Private Doctor Home Visit Hamburg-Mitte
The private medical home-visit service in Hamburg-Mitte is an acute-care service by RAB Arztbesuche that brings licensed physicians into the Hamburg district of Hamburg-Mitte within 60 to 90 minutes, daily from 6 am to midnight.
Hamburg-Mitte is the city's densest and most-visited district, from the Altstadt and HafenCity across St. Georg and St. Pauli to Wilhelmsburg and Finkenwerder. We come to your home, your hotel by the main station or your apartment in the HafenCity, typically within 60 to 90 minutes. Daily from 6 am to midnight.
Medically reviewed by Susanne Reiche
Consultant in internal medicine, geriatrics and palliative care, private physician
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Hamburg-Mitte, the pulsing core of the city
Hamburg-Mitte, with around 300,000 residents, is the district with the highest visitor and overnight-stay density in Hamburg, stretching from the Altstadt and Neustadt across the HafenCity, St. Georg, St. Pauli, Hammerbrook and Rothenburgsort out to the Elbe islands of Veddel and Wilhelmsburg, and to Billstedt, Horn and Finkenwerder. Our house call service drives in from Bramfeld and reaches the district's quarters typically in 60 to 90 minutes.
The clientele is more varied than in any other district: international hotel guests and business travellers around the main station and the Binnenalster, well-off residents of the new HafenCity, families in Wilhelmsburg and Billstedt, and the nightlife and businesses around the Reeperbahn in St. Pauli. We come to all of them, whether a new-build apartment at the Baakenhafen, a hotel room on Kirchenallee or an old-build flat in St. Georg.
Typical conditions in the district
On house calls we routinely see influenza-like illness, febrile respiratory infections, bronchitis and sinusitis, gastrointestinal infections, urinary tract infections, migraine attacks, back pain and blood-pressure crises. Among the many hotel guests around the main station and the Binnenalster, the picture is dominated by travel-related infections, acute pain syndromes before business appointments and gastrointestinal complaints. In the densely populated quarters of Wilhelmsburg, Billstedt and Rothenburgsort we add chronic management of heart failure, COPD and diabetes.
Discretion for hotel and HafenCity
Anyone who falls ill in a hotel on Kirchenallee, an apartment in the HafenCity or a flat in St. Georg wants a doctor who arrives discreetly and without fuss, and that is how we work. Billing follows the German medical fee schedule (GOÄ), typically 150 to 300 euros depending on the effort, with an English-language sick note and prescription issued on site on request. For hotel bookings we agree the arrival route and access directly with reception.
Emergency? Dial the emergency number
If unconscious, with severe chest pain, breathlessness or heavy bleeding, dial 112 immediately. Our service complements the emergency services. It does not replace them.
On site
Arrival and logistics in Hamburg-Mitte
From our base in Bramfeld we reach the quarters of Hamburg-Mitte, that is Altstadt, Neustadt, HafenCity, St. Georg, St. Pauli, Hammerbrook, Veddel, Wilhelmsburg, Billstedt, Horn and Finkenwerder, typically in 60 to 90 minutes. We drive via the Ring 2, Willy-Brandt-Strasse, the Ballindamm and across the Elbe bridges to the islands, in the evenings and at weekends usually substantially faster.
Parking in the city core around the main station, Mönckebergstrasse and the Reeperbahn is tight, but the HafenCity and Wilhelmsburg are more relaxed. We factor it in. For hotel calls around the Binnenalster and the main station we agree the arrival route with reception; for the new-build apartments in the HafenCity we ask for the flat and bell number or an entrance code.
For Finkenwerder and the Elbe island of Wilhelmsburg we plan the approach via the tunnel and bridge routes more generously. For acute emergencies with immediate danger to life the ambulance service on 112 is always the right route; our service handles urgent but non-life-threatening care at home.
Availability
Hours and arrival time
RAB is available daily from 6 am to midnight, 365 days a year. In Hamburg-Mitte the typical arrival time is 60 to 90 minutes from the moment we accept the call, and we give you a concrete arrival window when you book. The three nearest hospitals are the Asklepios Klinik St. Georg, the Marienkrankenhaus and the Israelitisches Krankenhaus.
The same medical expertise applies here as everywhere. For English-speaking hotel guests and international business travellers around the main station we deliberately allocate a doctor with the appropriate language skills; in tourism-heavy Hamburg-Mitte we are asked almost every day.
Phone: 040 524 729 688
Daily 6 am – midnight
Case profiles
Typical reasons for a house call in Hamburg-Mitte
Hotel guest at the main station
A business traveller returns to his hotel on Kirchenallee from a meeting with fever, sore throat and hoarseness. We are in the room within about 75 minutes, examine, rule out a bacterial focus, prescribe the appropriate therapy and issue both a German prescription and an English sick note.
Family in the HafenCity
Two children develop simultaneous febrile respiratory infections in an apartment at the Baakenhafen, the mother is also under the weather. Instead of arranging three appointments at three practices, a doctor comes to the living room, examines all three in turn and provides consolidated treatment including prescriptions and sick notes.
Senior patient in Wilhelmsburg
An 82-year-old patient with heart failure and growing mobility limitations on the Elbe island of Wilhelmsburg. A trip to a practice is too much for her. We visit, check blood pressure, oxygen saturation and leg oedema, adjust medication and coordinate with the nursing service and the family.
Late shift on St. Pauli
The owner of a venue around the Reeperbahn calls late with an acute blood-pressure crisis and a severe headache. We reach the flat in St. Pauli the same evening, bring the blood pressure down under control, clarify the cause and bill via our private medical accounts office under GOÄ.
Postal codes
Postcodes in Hamburg-Mitte
Frequently asked questions
How quickly does a doctor reach the HafenCity or St. Georg?
Do you treat international hotel guests in English?
Do you also visit the Elbe islands of Wilhelmsburg, Veddel and Finkenwerder?
What does a house call cost and how do you bill?
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