Barts and The London Skin Centre
At Barts and The London Skin Centre, we are committed to offering individualised care for a wide range of skin diseases, including skin cancer, in both adults and children.
The dermatology department is one of the largest in the
We provide the services listed below – please click on the links below for more information.
Children’s services (including treatment of eczema)
Skin cancer
Severe psoriasis clinics
Photobiology and phototherapy clinic
Specialist dermatology surgery
Patch test/Skin allergy clinics
Skin problems in patients with organ transplants
Psychodermatology
Joint sexual health clinics
Genetic skin disease (including diagnosis and treatment of keratodermas, ichthyoses, and other skin disorders)
Dermatopathology
Joint gynaecology skin clinic
There is more treatment for psoriasis now than ever before. These include a dedicated specialist nurse-led phototherapy day centre, and full range of topical and systemic (oral and injected) biological therapy.
Barts and The London Skin Centre is one of only two specialist centres in
We provide Botox treatment for excessive sweating (hyperhidrosis) on the NHS, which is unique in
Some skin diseases can be caused by an allergy. If we can identify an allergy, this offers the chance of a cure for a person’s skin problem. In these weekly clinics, we can do patch testing, RAST testing and skin prick testing. Suitable patients for this clinic are those with long standing, difficult to manage eczema, facial or hand eczema, ano-genital eczema, patients having reactions to ear or eye drops, those with an acute onset of new eczema and people who have work-related skin problems. We can also investigate suspected latex allergy. Often patients have negative allergy tests but still find this to be helpful and reassuring. A recent audit showed 95% of patients who underwent patch testing thought it was useful and worthwhile.
Food allergy testing, or allergy to oral medications or bee/wasp stings, is conducted by our allergy centre. All referrals should be made to the allergy centre at the London Chest Hospital.
We run a dedicated transplant skin clinic – the first such clinic in the
We run a skin and psychiatry clinic with dedicated dermatology and psychiatric staff for patients with skin disease and psychiatric problems. This clinic is unique in
HIV-related skin clinic: We run a weekly specialist clinic to manage complex skin disorders linked to HIV infection and AIDS. This has been developed as skin disease is very common due to HIV infection and also the new drug treatments for AIDS. It is one of only two such specialist clinics in the
Male genital clinic: We run a specialist monthly clinic for skin problems of the male genitalia. This is jointly run by Dr David Paige (dermatology) and Dr Martin Hourihan (sexual health medicine) in the Ambrose King Centre, next to The Royal London Hospital. This is a tertiary referral clinic accepting referrals from other dermatology, sexual health medicine or urology doctors.
This is a new NHS clinic which was previously a research clinic to see patients with genetic skin disease. We receive referrals from GPs and other hospitals from all over the
Dr Edel O’Toole sees patients with different types of ichthyosis (inherited scaly, dry skin), keratodermas (thickened skin on the hands and feet), pachyonychia congenita (affects palms, soles, nails and sometimes mouth) and other inherited skin disorders. We perform genetic analysis for many of these disorders and can also liaise with other laboratories in the
Prof Rino Cerio is the only Professor of Dermatopathology in the
Dr Karen Gibbon runs clinics four times each month at The Royal London Hospital for general skin problems of the vulva, and specialist cancer clinics are held monthly at