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Respiratory medicine
We provide services for most respiratory conditions and are one of the largest departments in south west London. Our specialist outpatient clinics, which are run at both St Helier and Epsom Hospital, include:
- Asthma (including multidisciplinary assessment)
- Chronic obstructive airways disease (including multidisciplinary assessment)
- Interstitial lung diseases
- Lung cancer
- Pleural diseases
- Cough clinic
- Sarcoidosis
- Oxygen assessment
- Tuberculosis (TB)
- Dedicated specialist nurse clinics including aiways clinics
- Smoking cessation
We also provide a range of diagnostic services and have close links with other specialties such as allergy/immunology, thoracic surgery and oncology as well as national reference centres (Royal Brompton Hospital, St George’s Hospital, and Guy’s and St Thomas’ hospitals).
Opening hours and location
All clinics are held at the locations below. Please check your appointment letter and make a note of which location your appointment is booked for.
Clinics are by appointment only.
St Helier Hospital
Powell and Springall units, ground floor, F block (Ferguson House)
Clinics are held daily.
Office hours: 8.30am-5pm, Monday to Friday
Tel: 020 8296 2401
Fax: 020 8296 3163
TB advice and referrals
Tel: 020 8296 3254
St Helier Hospital and Queen Mary's Hospital for Children site map [pdf] 82KB
Epsom Hospital
Oaks or Derby suite (outpatient departments) ground floor, block A (Headley Wing)
Clinics are held daily.
Office hours: 9am-5pm, Monday to Friday
Tel: 01372 73 5293
Fax: 01372 73 5952
See Epsom Hospital for information to help you plan your journey.
Meet the team
Consultants
Clinical Lead for the Department of Respiratory Medicine: Dr Thomas Medveczky
St Helier Hospital
- Dr Vanessa Kahr, consultant (special interest Tuberculosis)
- Dr Thomas Medveczky, consultant (special interest Asthma/ COPD and Integrated Care)
- Vacant Post, Associate Medical Director
- Dr Veronica Varney, consultant (special interest Allergy and General Respiratory Medicine)
- Dr Rebecca Lawrence - Associate Specialist in Respiratory Medicine
Epsom Hospital
- Dr Praveen Molanguri, consultant (special interest General Respiratory Medicine and non-invasive ventilation)
- Dr Shakil Rahman, consultant (special interest General Respiratory Medicine and Sub-Dean SGUL)
- Dr Jonathan Ratoff, consultant (special interest Pleural Disease and Lung Cancer)
- Dr Claire Wells, consultant (special interest Pleural Disease and Lung Cancer)
Respiratory nurse specialists
- Helen Parnell, lead respiratory nurse
- Virginia Quirke
- Claire Kearon
- Patricia Lowe
- Joanna McCarthy (Epsom)
- Angela Miers (Epsom)
- Vanessa Mulgrew (Epsom)
Lung cancer nurse specialists
- Helen Tighe (St Helier)
- Maria Soya-Bongay (Epsom)
Tuberculosis nurse specialists
- Preseetha Jidesh
- Katherine Bintley
Specialist registrars, hospital doctors and medical students
As a teaching hospital we have doctors who are undergoing their specialist training in respiratory medicine or general medicine, as well as medical student from St George's Medical School, University of London. Sometimes medical students may be present during your appointment. Please tell the doctor or nurse in charge if you do not wish for a student to be present.
Referrals
Your GP, practice nurses or hospital consultant can refer you to the service. GPs and other clinicans can read more about referring to our services or can contact the service using the details below.
For our St Helier administration team please contact:
Tel: 020 8296 2401
Fax: 020 8296 3163
For our Epsom administration team please contact:
Tel: 01372 735293
Fax: 01372 735952
Lung (respiratory) cancer referral form (two week rule)[docx] 60KB
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