Children's surgery

About

Our children’s surgery service covers general, urology and laparoscopic surgery. Day case and inpatient visits are under shared care with general paediatricians.

Common surgeries we perform are:

• inguinal hernia
• umbilical hernia
• epigastric hernia
• hydrocele
• varicocele under 16 years
• undescended testis
• circumcision
• lumps and bumps under skin
• tongue tie release

Patient video

Watch this video to find out what will happen when you come to hospital for surgery.

Clinics

Our children's surgery service holds clinics at St Mary's Hospital.

Outpatient clinics

Address

Paediatric outpatients
Sixth floor
Queen Elizabeth Queen Mother (QEQM) building
St Mary’s Hospital
Praed Street
London W2 1NY

Contact information

Phone: 020 3312 1643 (PA)

Day case surgeries are treated in the west way ward and inpatients on the great western ward at St Mary’s Hospital.

Meet the team

Our children's surgery service is managed by a team of specialist paediatric surgeons.

Paediatric surgeons

Mr Nic Alexander
Mr Munther Haddad
Mr Lalin Navaratne
Mr Shamshad Syed (associate specialist)

Paediatric urologist

Mr Sanjiv Agarwal

Referrals

Find out how to refer patients to our children's surgery service.

GP referrals and advice

Please use NHS e-Referrals to refer a patient to our children's surgery service.

Urgent referrals

Consultant surgeons can be contacted via the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital switchboard, Monday to Friday, 09.00 to 17.00.

Outside of these hours, urgent referrals can be made to the paediatric SpR on call at Chelsea and Westminster via the switchboard on bleep 4448.