Tuberculosis

Clinics

TB clinics at Charing Cross Hospital

Address

Outpatients department
Fifth floor
North wing
Charing Cross Hospital
Fulham Palace Road
London W6 8RF

Hours

• TB and general infection clinics are held on Wednesday mornings 

Contact information

Phone: 020 3312 6025

TB clinics at Hammersmith Hospital

Address

Main outpatients department
Ground floor
A block    
Hammersmith Hospital
Du Cane Road
London W12 0HS

Hours

• TB and general infection clinics are held on Monday afternoons 

Contact information

Phone: 020 3312 6025

TB clinics at St Mary’s Hospital

Address

Chest and allergy clinic
Ground floor
Mint Wing
St Mary’s Hospital
Praed Street
London W2 1NY

Please note: The chest and allergy clinic can be accessed via entrance E to the Mint Wing, off of South Wharf Road. 

Hours

• TB medical clinics are held on Tuesday mornings
• TB nursing pre biological screening clinics are held on Monday mornings 
• TB nursing screening clinics are held on Thursday mornings with follow up on a Monday afternoon for patients returning to have skin test reading 
• TB nursing clinics are held on Monday and Wednesday afternoons
• TB paediatric clinics are held on a Wednesday mornings
• TB co-infected clinics are held on a Wednesday afternoons
• TB latent clinics are held on a Wednesday afternoons  

Meet the team

Charing Cross Hospital

Infectious diseases consultants

Dr Frances Sanderson, clinical director, outpatients

Hammersmith Hospital

Infectious diseases consultants

Dr Christopher Chiu 
Professor Shiranee Sriskandan
Professor Carlton Evans 
Dr Aula Abbara
Dr Darius Armstrong 

Respiratory/TB consultants

Dr Meg Coleman
Professor Onn Min Kon, head of specialty, tuberculosis
Dr Jamilah Meghji

St Mary’s Hospital

Respiratory/TB consultants 

Dr Meg Coleman
Professor Onn Min Kon, head of specialty, tuberculosis
Dr Loong Yuan Han
Dr Laura Martin
Dr Jamilah Meghji

Paediatric TB consultants

Dr Elizabeth Whittaker

Lead TB clinical nurse specialists

Ardita Hoxha Drugzani
Helen Durkan

TB clinical nurse specialists

Genesis Canales
Juliet Nwagwu
Javier Sanchez
Clare Campbell

TB nurses

Marilou Delossantos
Panayiota Konstantopoulou
Jack Lindley
Nyama Wellington

TB coordinators

Safiyo Nur
Renee Watson

TB outreach worker

Juanita Hector

Patient information

Before your appointment

You will be seen two weeks from your referral. You are welcome to bring a relative, close friend or carer with you to your appointment. Children and young people should be accompanied by a parent, guardian or carer.

Please wear loose comfortable clothing for your appointment as you will likely have your upper arms examined for vaccination scars and may need to have your lungs and heart examined.

If you have been referred with a productive cough, please ask your GP surgery for a sputum pot and bring a fresh sputum sample with you to your appointment (i.e. phlegm coughed up on the day of your appointment).

In addition, it would be helpful if you could bring the following:

• your full address and telephone number(s)
• your appointment card and appointment letter
• a list of your medications
• your GP’s name and address
• a list of questions you may want to ask

During your appointment

All patients must check in on arrival. We try to stick to the appointment times, but some patients need longer consultations than others and many of our patients have complex illnesses and other testing performed which can cause delays. We will keep you informed of delays.

Some patients need to see a nurse after the appointment with the doctor, they may need to go to another department for tests and to get a prescription. It is advisable to plan to be at the hospital for about three hours.

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.

Patients suspected of having TB will be reviewed by a specialist doctor or nurse and may be asked to wear a face mask at the hospital. This is a precautionary measure and the nurse will explain what you need to do. Please do not be alarmed by this precaution.

When you attend the TB testing clinic you may have a TB skin test, blood test and chest x-ray. Patients attending the doctor's clinic may require more detailed scans of the chest, breathing tests and sometimes we also look into the lungs with a small camera (bronchoscopy) to investigate coughing or bleeding. The doctor will discuss whether these tests are necessary and you will get an appointment to for these at a later date

After your appointment

At the end of your consultation, the clinician will usually let you know if you require a follow up appointment. A letter is usually sent to your GP which summarises your consultation and plan of care. You will receive a copy of this letter. You can expect to hear about most results at your follow-up appointment but sometimes the clinician will arrange to let you know by telephone.

Refer to this service

GP referrals

Please use NHS e-Referrals to refer a patient to our tuberculosis service. Be sure to download and complete the relevant referral form below and attach it to your referral within NHS e-Referrals. 

Suspected TB referral form

Latent TB referral form

Prior to referral

If you wish to obtain some general advice regarding a potential referral, please call one of the TB nurses.

If you are referring a patient with a productive cough, please send details of any recent sputum microbiology, and/or provide the patient with a sample pot for the morning of their appointment.

Please arrange for the patient to have a chest x-ray at the hospital you intend to refer to. This should take place prior to referral or on the day of referral so images can be accessed at the clinic appointment.

If the patient has had imaging at another hospital, and you are not referring to that hospital, please indicate which hospital clearly on the referral so that this imaging may be retrieved and reviewed.

Please send the results of any relevant blood tests and inform us of any relevant social circumstances that are impacting the patient's health and wellbeing.

Please inform us if the patient does not speak English, and which languages they do speak. Where possible, please advise them to attend with a translator.

GP advice

Phone: 020 3312 6025 (TB office) or call the St Mary’s Hospital switchboard on 020 3312 6666 and ask the operator to bleep 1366
Email: imperial.tb.service@nhs.net

Secondary care

Secondary care organisations should email Professor Kon (onn.kon@nhs.net) and copy IMPERIAL.TB.SERVICE@NHS.NET on the email. There are no specific pre-requisite tests needed.

Self-referrals

Patients can self refer if they have symptoms consistent with TB or they have been in close contact with someone with infectious TB. You do not need to be registered with a GP.

Phone: 020 3312 6025
Email: IMPERIAL.TB.SERVICE@NHS.NET