Barts and The London Allergy Centre
Barts and The London Allergy Centre is based at The London Chest Hospital in Bethnal Green, east London. We provide specialist care for a range of allergy conditions from severe rhinitis to anaphylaxis and food and drug allergies. For more information please click here.
We also provide a specialist joint allergy/ENT (ear, nose and throat) clinic at St Bartholomew’s Hospital (known as Barts).
Some allergy services for children are provided at Barts and The London Children’s Hospital, based at The Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel. To find out about all the services provided by our children’s hospital, please click here.
As a large teaching hospital trust, our allergy team is comprised of a range of health specialists and experts including doctors, specialist nurses, dietitians and technical staff. We are closely linked to Barts and The London Respiratory Centre and our expertise benefits all our patients.
We provide training for undergraduates, postgraduates, primary care and allied health professionals, and are part of the East London and Essex Allergy Network.
As a large teaching and specialist hospital we continually push the boundaries of medical research to ensure that we are able to provide the most advanced and successful technologies and treatments.
Barts and The London Allergy Centre is involved in developing the latest allergy treatments via the Lung Research Centre. Our research includes trials on sublingual immunotherapy, a method of allergy treatment that uses an allergen tablet given under the tongue to reduce long-term symptoms, and development of new antihistamine treatments.
For adults, we offer a one-stop clinic where patients see a consultant, have allergy tests and receive a management plan on the same day. Critical to the quality of our service is teamwork; our patients experience a multi-disciplinary and seamless approach – receiving additional high quality nursing care, including training with adrenaline auto-injector pens, if necessary, and therapeutic support, such as dietary advice, in one appointment.