Chest medicine

The respiratory medicine department provides the following specialist services:

  • Asthma
  • Breathlessness clinic
  • Bronchiectasis - advanced diagnostics
  • Chest fast-track lung cancer service for urgent cancer referrals and  advice about lung cancer patients, including joint oncology clinic
  • COPD one-stop diagnostic clinic
  • COPD severe disease clinic
  • General chest medicine
  • Interstitial lung disease (ILD)
  • Physiotherapy – airways clearance techniques
  • Sleep medicine
  • Tuberculosis service 

Diagnostic and support services include:

  • Bronchoscopy
  • Fitness to fly assessment
  • Full lung function
  • Home and ambulatory oxygen assessments
  • GP open access spirometry
  • Nebuliser trials
  • Pulmonary rehabilitation
  • Skin tests for airborne allergens

Consultants

Location
The service is in the chest and allergy clinic, ground floor, Mint wing.

Contacts

Charing Cross Hospital
Respiratory medicine offices
Amelda Waters (PA)
Tel: 020 3311 7198

Hammersmith Hospital
COPD and asthma
Anita Ringsell, secretary
Tel: 020 3313 3269

TB and HHT
Georgina Rudd, secretary
Tel: 020 3313 4831

General TB enquiries advice
TB nurse
Tel: 020 3312 6025 or via switchboard 020 3312 6666 and ask for bleep 1366

Respiratory and cancer
Jennifer McKenzie, secretary
Tel: 020 3313 1178

St Mary's Hospital
General enquiries
Tel: 020 3312 1896
Fax: 020 3312 7743

COPD
Tel: 020 3312 2349/7942
Fax: 020 3312 1613
Email: copd@imperial.nhs.uk

Fast-track lung cancer
Tel: 020 3312 6138
Fax: 020 3312 2279

TB service
Tel: 020 3312 6025
Fax: 020 3312 6969

Nurse-led asthma advice
Tel: 020 3312 1542
Fax: 020 3312 7988
Email: asthmanurses@imperial.nhs.uk