Children's tuberculosis

About

We run a weekly dedicated paediatric tuberculosis (TB) clinic on Wednesday mornings. In this clinic multidisciplinary care is delivered with an emphasis on the whole family unit.

We receive many referrals for complex/atypical cases throughout the region, including multi-drug resistant TB.

Clinics

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

St Mary's Hospital clinics

Address

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

Please note: The Queen Elizabeth Queen Mother (QEQM) building can be accessed via South Wharf Road. 

Hours

Wednesday mornings

Contact information

Our clinical nurse specialist Chris Snook can be contacted by calling the St Mary’s Hospital switchboard 020 3312 6666 and asking for bleep 1366.

In an emergency, patients can always call the paediatric infectious diseases ward, the grand union ward, on 020 3312 6465.

Meet the team

Our children's tuberculosis service is managed by a team of consultants and clinical nurse specialists.

Our paediatric TB clinic is run by the paediatric infectious diseases team along with the St Mary's adult TB team. The TB clinical nurse specialist team, support families with children attending both paediatric and adult clinics.

Paediatric infectious diseases team

Dr Hermione Lyall, clinical director, children's services
Dr Gareth Tudor-Williams
Dr Jethro Herberg
Dr Aubrey Cunnington
Dr Shun May Yeung
Dr Elizabeth Whittaker
Dr James Seddon
Dr Anna Turkova
Professor Mike Levin
Professor Simon Kroll
Chris Snook, clinical nurse specialist 

Patient information

Find out what to expect when you come to hospital for your children's tuberculosis appointment.

Before your appointment

Our clinic sees patients very promptly. Children should be accompanied by a parent or caregiver, but any family member with active TB should not come into the paediatric outpatients. If you have any questions about this please call and talk to the our TB clinical nurse specialist ahead of time.

Please bring all current medications to your appointment.

During your appointment

When you check-in at the main reception in paediatric outpatients, all children will be weighed and measured for clinic.

Your first appointment with us will take 40 to 50 minutes, and your follow-up appointments will usually be less than 30 minutes.

Please note that we are a teaching hospital, so medical students may be present for some appointments. If you do not wish to have them in the room please let the nurse or doctor know and the students will be asked to step outside.

During the appointment families will usually be seen by the clinical nurse specialist and/or the consultant.

If you need to be screened for TB this usually involves a skin test, sometimes a blood test and a chest x-ray.

Typically these are organised to take place on the Monday, two days before the clinic appointment so that the results are available at the time of review. The clinical nurse specialist will ring you to explain and arrange this.

Referrals

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

GP

Please use NHS e-Referrals to refer a patient to our children's tuberculosis service, which can be accessed via children's infectious diseases clinic on NHS e-Referrals.

Urgent referrals

Please contact the paediatric infectious disease registrar via the switchboard: 020 3312 6666:

• In hours, request the paediatric infectious disease registrar on bleep 1802
• Out of hours the on-call registrar on bleep 1202. 

GP advice

For non-urgent advice, please contact the TB clinical nurse specialist via switchboard.

For urgent advice please phone switchboard and ask to speak to the paediatric infectious diseases team. You can access the team Monday through Friday via the paediatric infectious disease SPR on bleep 1802. Out of hours and at weekends please ask for the paediatric infectious disease consultant on call.