Rheumatology
The rheumatology department offers a diagnostic and therapeutic service for patients suffering from disorders of the locomotor system, which include degenerative, inflammatory and infective diseases of joints.
The service offers specialist one-stop injection clinics, anti-TNF clinics, multidisciplinary rheumatoid arthritis clinics, lupus and vasculitis clinics, scleroderma clinics, combined upper limb and foot and ankle clinics with orthopaedics.
General rheumatology clinics are held Monday to Friday, and clinics are held to monitor long-term treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and the connective tissue diseases.
Expertise is offered in joint aspiration and injection. A one-stop injection clinic is held every two weeks.
Consultants
Nurse specialists
Michael Smithwick
Kathleen Heath
Location
Outpatient clinics are held in the main outpatients department at St Mary’s and St Charles hospitals.
Day case procedures, including anti-TNF infusions, take place in the metabolic day ward in the diabetes and endocrine centre on the 1st floor of Mint wing at St Mary’s hospital.
Tel: 020 3312 1046/1066/7789
Fax: 020 3312 6083
Contacts
Charing Cross Hospital
General enquiries to clinical secretaries
Tel: 020 3311 8442/8441
Fax: 020 3311 8440
Sub-specialist enquiries as follows:
Prof Peter C Taylor
Tel: 020 3311 8441
Rheumatoid arthritis and early arthritis
Prof Patrick Venables
Tel: 020 3311 8441
Sjogren’s syndrome and other connective tissue diseases
Prof Patrick Venables or Dr Charles Mackworth-Young
Tel: 020 3311 8442
SLE and other connective tissue diseases
Dr Charles Mackworth-Young
Tel: 020 3311 8442
Antiphospholipid syndrome
Dr Tonia Vincent
Tel: 020 3311 8441
Osteoarthritis of hands
Dr Sonya Abraham
Tel: 020 3311 8441
Ankylosing spondylitis (monthly clinic)
Dr Clare Higgens
Tel: 020 3311 8442
Gout (bi-monthly clinic)
Rheumatology specialist nurse
Sr Angela Smith
Tel: 020 3311 7751
Hammersmith Hospital
General enquiries to clinical secretaries
Tel: 020 3313 3368/1174
Fax: 020 3313 1930
Urgent rheumatology advice
Tel: 020 3313 1000, bleep 9096 or 9095
Blood monitoring and biologic therapies enquiries
Ms Maria Lucas
Tel: 020 3313 1000 bleep 1029
Sub-specialist enquiries as follows:
Prof Marina Botto
Tel: 020 3313 3368
Complement disorders and SLE
Dr Maresa Carulli
Tel: 020 3313 1174
General rheumatology and scleroderma
Prof Dorian Haskard
Tel: 020 3313 1174
Behçet’s Syndrome
Dr Justin Mason
Tel: 020 3313 1174
Large vessel vasculitis (giant cell arteritis, Takayasu’s Arteritis)
Dr Michael Naughton
Tel: 020 3313 1174
Injection clinic
Dr Matthew Pickering
Tel: 020 3313 3368
Complement disorders and SLE
Dr Ravi Rao
Tel: 020 3313 1174
General rheumatology
Prof Tim Vyse
Tel: 020 3313 3368
SLE
St Mary's Hospital
Rheumatology nurse specialist helpline
Tel: 020 3312 6264
For general rheumatology and one-stop injection clinics please refer to any consultant.
Sub-specialist enquiries as follows:
Dr Richard Rees
Tel: 020 3312 1046
Inflammatory back pain (fast track clinic)
Reactive arthritis (screening and joint aspiration service)
Complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) and atypical upper limb pains
Dr Colin Tench
Tel: 020 3312 7789
SLE and other connective tissue diseases
Combined orthopaedic/rheumatology foot and ankle clinic
Dr Anne Kinderlerer
Tel: 020 3312 1066
Temporal arteritis (acute service)/polymyalgia rheumatica
Infection-related rheumatology (particularly HIV/hepatitis)