Neurosurgery
Contact
- Outpatients appointments
- 020 3313 5000
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Our acute neurosurgery service is based in the major trauma centre at St Mary's Hospital. We also offer critical care services for some neurovascular issues at Charing Cross Hospital, some of which are linked with our hyperacute stroke unit.
Elective neurosurgery and acute neurovascular and skull base services are provided at Charing Cross Hospital, whilst all acute neurosurgery, including neurotrauma, are treated at St Mary’s Hospital in the Major Trauma Centre.
We have both cranial and spinal adult neurosurgery, and adult and children's neurotrauma (cranial and spinal) services at the Trust.
Our team of consultant neurosurgeons provide treatment for the following:
Cranial
Neuro-oncology
This includes benign and malignant primary and secondary brain tumours and cranial and spinal metastases, find out more in our neuro-oncology service pages.
- Miss Sophie Camp
- Prof Dipankar Nandi
- Mr Kevin O’Neill
- Mr David Peterson
Neurovascular
This includes aneurysms, vascular malformations, cavernomas and follow up for spontaneous haemorrhage (if appropriate).
- Mr Ramesh Nair
- Mr Kevin O’Neill
Cerebro-spinal fluid disorders
This includes hydrocephalus, normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH), idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH) and Chiari malformation.
- Mr Kevin Tsang
- Prof Mark Wilson
Functional
This includes deep brain stimulation and MRgFUS for Parkinson’s disease and other movement disorders.
- Prof Dipankar Nandi
Craniofacial
This includes craniofacial tumours, deformities and reconstruction surgery.
- Mr Kevin Tsang
Cranial trauma
This includes closed and open head injuries and craniofacial injuries (major trauma centre).
Skull base, including pituitary tumours
This includes benign (vestibular schwannoma, meningioma) and metastatic skull based tumours and benign (adenoma, meningioma, craniopharygioma) and metastatic pituitary tumours.
- Mr Nigel Mendoza
- Mr Ramesh Nair
Spinal
Neuro-oncology
This includes benign and malignant primary and secondary spinal tumours and metastatic spinal cord compression.
- Mr Ahmed Ibrahim
- Mr Pratipal Kalsi
- Mr Haider Kareem
- Mr Christian Ulbricht
Degenerative spinal conditions
This includes degenerative cervical, thoracic, and lumbar conditions.
- Mr Mo Akmal
- Mr Ahmed Ibrahim
- Mr Pratipal Kalsi
- Mr Haider Kareem
- Mr Cheong Lee
- Mr Reza Mobasheri
- Mr Salvatore Russo
- Mr Kevin Tsang
- Mr Christian Ulbricht
Spinal trauma
This includes traumatic cervical, thoracic and lumbar injuries, including spinal cord injuries.
- Mr. Ahmed Ibrahim
- Mr Pratipal Kalsi
- Mr Haider Kareem
- Mr Cheong Lee
- Mr Salvatore Russo
- Mr Kevin Tsang
- Mr Christian Ulbricht
Peripheral nerve conditions
This includes carpal tunnel and ulnar nerve decompression.
- Mr Mo Akmal
- Mr Ahmed Ibrahim
- Mr Pratipal Kalsi
- Mr Haider Kareem
- Mr Cheong Lee
- Mr Nigel Mendoza
- Mr Reza Mobasheri
- Mr Ramesh Nair
- Prof Dipankar Nandi
- Mr Kevin O’Neill
- Mr Salvatore Russo
- Mr Kevin Tsang
- Mr Christian Ulbricht
- Prof Mark Wilson
Our neurosurgery clinics are offered in the main outpatients at Charing Cross and St Mary's hospitals.
Clinics
Appointments may be face to face or telephone as appropriate. Your letter will tell you whether your appointment is face to face or telephone, although you may contact the administration team to make a specific request. The address will be on the letter.
Face to face clinic addresses:
Neurosurgery clinic at Charing Cross Hospital
Address
Main outpatients department
First floor, south wing
Charing Cross Hospital
Fulham Palace Road
London W6 8RF
Clinic 8, 1st floor west
Charing Cross Hospital
Fulham Palace Road
London, W6 8RF
Fracture clinic
Charing Cross Hospital
Fulham Palace Road
London, W6 8RF
Neurosurgery clinic at St Mary’s Hospital
Address
Main outpatients department
St Mary’s Hospital
Praed Street
London W2 1NY
Fracture clinic (entrance next to Victoria and Albert ward)
St Mary’s Hospital
South Wharf Road
London W2 1NY
Hours
Clinics are offered daily but hours can vary – please check appointment letters or call for details.
For telephone clinic appointments, please allow an hour either side of call time.
The spine trauma clinic (Wednesday pm) often requires some imaging before the appointment, please double check the appointment letter for details.
Contact
Cranial: imperial.neurosurgeryenquiries@nhs.net
Spinal: imperial.neurospineenquiries@nhs.net
Appointments: 020 3313 5000
Meet the team
Consultants
Mr Mo Akmal (orthopaedic spine)
Miss Fiona Arnold
Miss Sophie Camp
Mr Ahmed Ibrahim
Mr Pratipal Kalsi
Mr Haider Kareem
Mr Cheong Lee
Mr Nigel Mendoza
Mr Reza Mobasheri (orthopaedic spine)
Mr Ramesh Nair
Prof Dipankar Nandi
Mr Kevin O’Neill
Mr David Peterson
Mr Salvatore Russo
Mr Kevin Tsang
Mr Christian Ulbricht
Prof Mark Wilson
Advanced clinical practitioner
Ms Abby Harper-Payne (cranial – neuro-oncology)
Clinical nurse specialist
Ms Vienna Charney (spine)
Ms Giovanna Cella (neuro-oncology)
Ms Shivani Soni (neuro-oncology)
Mr James Tallant (neuro-oncology)
Ms Aminata Gomes Bocum (movement disorders)
Ms Anitha Ramanathan (movement disorders)
Neurosurgery pathway co-ordinator
Ms Rachel Foote
Patient information
Before your appointment
You are welcome to bring a relative, close friend or carer with you to your appointment.
Whether you need to bring anything or prepare for your appointment with us will depend on the type of appointment you are having. The hospital will let you know by telephone or letter about any special measures to take before your appointment.
Please bring the following if you can:
- Your full address and telephone number(s)
- Your appointment card and appointment letter
- Your GP’s name and address
- Money to pay for any prescriptions, or an exemption card
- A list of questions you may want to ask your consultant
- A list of medication
During your appointment
Our consultants and the staff strive to see patients at their appointed times. However, this sometimes is not possible due to complex cases that require extra consultation time.
Please note our hospitals are teaching hospitals, 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 a consultant will take your medical history and carry out their expert assessment. They will then discuss the findings with you and order any tests and follow up appointments.
After your appointment
After your appointment you may either be given medication and discharged or referred for some tests and asked to come back for a follow-up appointment.
Patient information leaflets
Neuro-oncology
Refer to this service
Non-acute referrals
Please use NHS e-Referrals to refer a patient to our neurosurgery service.
Acute referrals
All acute referrals should be made via the www.referapatient.org portal followed by a phonecall to the on-call SpR via Main Switchboard (please state whether your referral is for cranial or spinal).
Additional information
Clinical trials and research
Trials are offered to patients dependent on their suitability and will be offered by a consultant. For further information on trials please ask your consultant. Current trials centre around deep brain stimulation, oncology and trauma.
Further online resources
Your inpatient stay Your stay in hospital
You may need to stay at one of our hospitals to have a procedure or receive treatment, either overnight as an inpatient or during the day as a day patient. Ahead of your inpatient stay, you will usually need to attend a pre-operative assessment appointment.
Find out more about how you can reschedule or cancel your inpatient stay, pre-operative assessments, what to bring with you when you come to hospital and much more.