Day surgery is the admission of elective patients to a hospital for planned surgical procedures, returning home on the same day. The Day Surgery Unit can be used as an inpatient ward and provides a 24 hour stay facility to support more major procedures.

Key telephone numbers

020 8983 8000 ext 8246 or 8629

Your appointment

The patient will receive a letter from admissions with a to come in date along with instructions and information which includes fasting times, if needed, and what to bring with you.

Keeping our patients safe

To keep our patients safe from infection and cross contamination, friends, family or carers are not allowed to accompany you into our day surgery units.

A member of staff will call your named relative or carer when you are ready to be picked up by car or taxi. For your own safety, we do not recommend using public transport to get home.

Clinic location

First floor
King George Hospital
Barley Lane
Goodmayes
IG3 8YB

Clinics run Monday to Friday from 7.30am to 6pm 

Key Staff

Our lead consultant is Dr Sharon Burke

Our lead nurse is Sister Myra Agustin

Our ward clerk is Shirin Slade

Day surgery is the admission of elective patients to a hospital for planned surgical procedures, returning home on the same day. The Day Surgery Unit can be used as an inpatient ward and provides a 24 hour stay facility to support more major procedures.

Key telephone numbers

01708 435 000 ext  2490 or 3501

Your appointment

The patient will receive a letter from admissions with a to come in date along with instructions and information which includes fasting times, if needed, and what to bring with you.

Keeping our patients safe

To keep our patients safe from infection and cross contamination, friends, family or carers are not allowed to accompany you into our day surgery units.

A member of staff will call your named relative or carer when you are ready to be picked up by car or taxi. For your own safety, we do not recommend using public transport to get home.

Clinic location

Blue Zone, First floor
Queen’s Hospital
Rom Valley Way
Romford
Essex, RM7 0AG

Clinics run Monday to Friday from 7.30am to 6pm  

Key Staff

Our lead consultant is Dr Sharon Burke

Our lead nurse is Sister Glenda Bellot

We treat severe types of orthodontic malocclusions (misalignment or incorrect relation of the teeth between the two dental arches). We liaise closely with primary providers of orthodontics and other hospital based specialty services.

The conditions we treat fall into four main groups:

1. Orthodontics with oral surgery problems such as impacted canines (where a tooth fails to grow and remains buried in the jaw), supernumerary (extra) teeth, and other impacted teeth excluding wisdom teeth.

2. Significant growth problems affecting the jaws whose treatment is likely to involve orthodontics combined with jaw surgery from the maxillofacial specialty. Other patients require functional orthopaedic appliances during the teenage years.

3. Orthodontics combined with the restorative dentistry specialty for hypodontia (developmental absence of teeth) or teeth missing as a result of trauma, in conjunction with the General Dentist who would provide the replacement of missing teeth however, any severe cases of missing teeth we would not be able to treat at Queen’s Hospital as we do not have a department of Restorative Dentistry and such cases should be referred appropriately

4. Special needs groups: Orthodontics for patients with cleft lip and palate and/or other cranio-facial disorders combined with the regional cleft team. Patients with complicated medical or disability management problems requiring orthodontics are also seen.

We are linked with the Great Ormond Street / St Andrew’s and Broomfield cleft lip and palate team. We also liaise with London teaching hospitals in planning treatment for hypodontia patients.

Patients with jaw growth problems and impacted teeth are treated in co-ordination with the Maxillofacial specialty at Queen's. 

We accept transfer cases from other hospital Orthodontic departments when a patient moves into the area. A letter from the referring hospital is needed.

Children have a dedicated orthodontic area within the children’s outpatients department on the first floor. The reception desk is in the right-hand corner by the fish tank. Adults are seen in our Outpatients Department, Team 2, in the maxillofacial area.

Cancel or change your appointment

If you need to cancel or change your appointment you can complete a form or call the number of your appointment letter

Key telephone numbers

The reception team can be contacted on: 01708 435 000 extension 2579, Monday to Friday.

Our Lead Consultant Orthodontist is Dr Ahmed Din and our support staff includes Speciality Doctors, Postgraduate Registrars and registered Orthodontic nurses.

 

We diagnose and treat a wide range of eye conditions in adults and children, supported by dedicated ophthalmic nurses, orthoptists and technicians. Many of our consultants work closely with the community, offering medical and professional support where needed.

We have dedicated eye theatres and run cataract services at both King George and Queen's Hospitals. We carry out corneal transplantation, glaucoma surgery, oculoplastic surgery and squint surgery and Queen's Hospital.

We offer treatment for:

• cataracts
• glaucoma
• diabetic retinopathy
• age-related macular degeneration
• retinal vein occlusions
• squints
• amblyopia (lazy eye)
• peri-ocular tumours
• watery eyes
• corneal infections
• conjunctivitis
• eye injuries.

Preparing for your appointment

Please bring glasses with you if you wear them. Drops used to examine your eyes may affect your ability to drive so you are advised not to drive to or from the appointment

Key telephone number

For appointment queries, cancellations, re-bookings, admissions and transport queries - please call 01708 435 000 ext 3968 or 3317

For emergency eye problems, GP enquiries or optician enquiries, telephonel 01708 435 000 ext 3550 / 3551.

For medication queries and Pharmacy (internal or external queries), telephone 01708 435 000 ext 3576.

Clinic locations

Urgent Eye Care service

Eye Department, Outpatients Team 2
Queen’s Hospital
Rom Valley Way
Romford
Essex, RM7 0AG

Monday to Friday, 8.30am – 4pm

Referrals and other information

Please do be prepared to wait as we deal with a very large number of patients each day and it may not be possible to see you exactly at your appointment time. You may be seen by a nurse technician or orthoptist before you see a doctor and you may not be seen in order of attendance as children and acute eye emergencies take precedence.

You may also be asked to come back the following day if our capacity has been reached and your condition does not require immediate treatment.

BHRUT Eye Casualty referral guidelines

We aim to provide a high quality, patient-centred elective and emergency urology service with emphasis on diagnostic and emergency care pathways. Complex pelvic and renal cancer surgery is centralised in London. Our comprehensive general and specialist urology service is based in the urology unit at King George Hospital. This includes a Diagnostic Unit, Urology Receiving Room, Maple Suite and dedicated ward (Iris).

We provide:

• Cancer outpatients via a one-stop service, diagnostics and surgery for all referrals via the two week wait GP service
• Outpatient services and the full range of diagnostics for all referrals
• access to emergency urological care via our receiving room
• experienced specialist nurse-led advice on all aspects of urology conditions
• dedicated cancer nurse specialists
• complex surgery for a wide range of urological problems.

Key telephone numbers

Trust main switchboard: 01708 435000

Reception, Iris ward: ext: 8710

Urology Operation Manager: ext: 8473

Urology admissions: ext 8174, 8352, 8262, 8229

Available between 9am to 5pm monday to friday

You can find out about procedure dates, pre-assessment appointment and general queries regarding urology surgery

Key Staff

Lead consultant: Mr Shailesh Kulkarni

Matron: Kuldip Chagger

 

Our vascular surgery team specialise in a branch of surgery that deals with the diseases of the arteries, veins and lymphatics.

Our aim is to prevent limb loss from blocked or narrowed arteries, prevent further mini strokes or major strokes by offering carotid surgery and perform keyhole surgery on dilated aortas (aneurysms).

We are a recognised centre for keyhole surgery for aortic aneurysms (EVAR) as well as varicose veins.

What types of treatment are available in our service?

Our vascular patients are usually referred by their GP, and are seen at our clinics in Queen's Hospital.

Most of the operations we perform are described as keyhole surgery and the major procedures such as carotid endarterectomy (removing gristle form a furred artery) are performed with the patient awake.

We also perform endovascular repair of the aorta (EVAR) with the patient wide awake.

We also perform elective operations for a variety of vascular conditions, including:

• abdominal aortic aneurysms
• carotid artery disease presenting with transient ischaemic attack (TIA or mini stroke) amaurosis fugax or stroke
• occlusive arterial disease of the limbs presenting with intermittent claudication, ischemic rest pain or tissue necrosis
• angioplasty for peripheral arterial disease
• occlusive and aneurysmal disease of the visceral arteries (renal, mesenteric)
• femoral and popliteal aneurysms
• varicose veins we have introduced the VNUS method for varicose veins which is one the most advanced methods for treating varicose veins and approved by NICE
• diabetic foot with tissue necrosis or infection we have a weekly diabetic foot clinic on Wednesday pm at Queens hospital run by vascular surgeons, diabetologists and podiatrists
• leg ulcers - our nurses are trained in rapid safe ulcer assessment and the application of the four layer bandage which can heal an ulcer in six weeks.

We have a state of art, dedicated vascular radiology suite with a fully functional vascular intervention theatre, managed by intervention radiologists.The Hyperacute Stroke unit (HASU) at Queen's Hospital is one of the major regional units for the stroke patients. We manage carotid artery disease patients (neck vessels supplying the brain) in a multidisciplinary set up along with the stroke team. We perform a large number of carotid artery surgeries at Queen's Hospital.

We have a dedicated vascular laboratory for the vascular tests located within the vascular clinic area and managed by specialist technicians.

We have dedicated specialist nurse who interacts with patients on the wards and in clinics and help patients with their special needs in terms of vascular problems.

Key staff

Our lead consultants are:

Mr Gabriel Sayer

Mr Julian Coker

Miss Srilekha Attavar

Mr Sabu Jacob

Mr Timothy Cheatle

Mr. Timothy Parkinson 

Our lead nurse is Lyndsey Harris 

Our lead technologist is David Muwanga

Other relevant information

Our surgeons submit all patient cases to a national database (the nationals vascular database registry). This confirms we comply with all national and international guidelines.