For clinicians

At Barts and The London Centre for Digestive Diseases, we are committed to providing our referring clinicians with information required to support you in making referrals to the service.

We are also dedicated to keeping you informed - through these pages - about new developments to our service.

Clinics available on Choose and Book

Liver - Gastroenterology (RLH)
Liver - Hepatology (RLH)
Liver (Hepatology) - (SBH)
Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) 1 - Gastroenterology (RLH)
Inflammatory Bowel Disease 2 (IBD) - Gastroenterology (RLH)

Referral guidelines

For routine and non-urgent outpatient referrals, please use the choose and book system or send your referral letters to:

Centre for Digestive Diseases
The Royal London Hospital
Whitechapel
London
E1 1BB

Centre for Digestive Diseases
Barts Hospital
West Smithfield
London
EC1A 7BE

OR to individual consultants, if specialist expertise is essential

Routine appointments are booked through a 'partial booking system' in which patients are asked to confirm that they still want an appointment by contacting the Central Appointments Department on 020 7767 3200 six weeks before they are likely to be seen. They can then arrange a suitable date.

For advice and guidance about referring your patient for a hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgery appointment please email btl-tr.Advice-gastroenterology-Barts@nhs.net Your email will be responded to within 24hours.

For out of hours and emergency enquiries call 020 7377 7000 and ask to bleep the senior registrar.

Endoscopy Unit
Referrals are made through the booked admissions process so that patients can be offered a choice of dates for their investigations. Tel 020 3594 3600 or fax 020 3594 0287.

Please use the gastroscopy request form when referring a patient for an open access endoscopy.

Download Gastroscopy request form

Download Flexible Sigmoidoscopy request form

For general endoscopy enquiries:
_endoscopyschedulers@bartsandthelondon.nhs.uk (please note, this email starts with an 'underscore')

Endoscopic ultrasound (EUS)
Please send referrals to Dr Sean Preston at the Endoscopy Unit, The Royal London.

Nurse-led functional bowel or faetal incontinence clinics
Please send direct referrals to Marion Allison at The Royal London hospital or call 020 3594 1781.

Liver clinic
Referral letters should be addressed to Liver Consultant, Endoscopy Unit, Royal London Hospital tel 020 3594 3200 or fax 020 3594 2834.

Nutrition clinic
Referral letters should be addressed to Nutrition Consultant, Endoscopy Unit, Royal London Hospital tel 020 3594 3500.

Newly diagnosed hepatitus B or C patients can contact Jo Schulz, Clinical Nurse Specialist at josephine.schulz@bartsandthelondon.nhs.uk, for advice pending their referral to the doctor clinic.

Surgery
Suspected cancer – 2 week wait: letter to be faxed to Central Appointments 020 7791 9660.

Direct referral letter sent/faxed to named consultant as above.

For urgent referrals or discussion regarding cases, please feel free to contact our secretaries and we will get back to you as soon as possible.

Clinical referral advice
Outside office working hours, referrals for previous patients or for specific and urgent advice, contact our on-call surgical registrar, who can be contacted via switchboard on 020 7377 7000 at The Royal London.