Muscle and Nerve Channelopathy Clinic

Services at St George's Hospital | Updated 28 Jul 2020

Skeletal Muscle Channelopathies Skeletal muscle channelopathies are rare neuromuscular diseases that cause symptoms of episodic muscle weakness or paralysis or a difficulty in relaxing muscles (the muscles can feel stuck or cramped) after they are contracted. Approximately 1 in 100 000 people in the UK has a muscle channelopathy. Muscle …
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Transition service for young adults with neuromuscular disorders

Services at St George's Hospital | Updated 28 Jul 2020 | Tags: neurology neuromuscular paediatric neurology

From the age of 16 years onwards young patients with a neuromuscular disorder will be transitioned from their paediatric clinic to adult services. This can be a time of great change as it is also a time when other life decisions are being made e.g. leaving school or staying in …
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Going home after having a spinal or epidural

| Updated 7 Oct 2024

This website provides some important information for women who have had an epidural or spinal procedure on our delivery suite. The anaesthetic team always aims to review you before you are sent home to make sure that you have recovered from your spinal or epidural. Sometimes you can be discharged …
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Resources

| Updated 30 Jul 2020

1. Starting a research project https://www.stgeorges.nhs.uk/education-and-research/research/initiating-research-lead-by-st-georges/ 2. GCP training https://www.nihr.ac.uk/health-and-care-professionals/learning-and-support/good-clinical-practice.htm

Current studies

| Updated 16 Jul 2020

Publications

| Updated 15 Jul 2020

The department has published papers on a variety of research topics, listed below: 2020 CovidSurg Collaborative. Mortality and pulmonary complications in patients undergoing surgery with perioperative SARS-CoV-2 infection: an international cohort study. Accepted for publication The Lancet 13.5.2020. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(20)31182-X Mortality and morbidity of stairlift injuries : analysis of the UK …
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St George’s Trauma and Orthopaedic Department Musculoskeletal Unit Research and Trauma Trials Clinical Research Unit

| Updated 26 Aug 2025

The clinical research unit in Trauma and Orthopaedics at St George’s Hospital participates in a number of national trials recruiting patients into studies investigating musculoskeletal diseases and injuries. These studies are supported by the National Institute for Health Research and have contributed to improvements in care for many patients in the UK. …
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Contact Us

| Updated 26 Jan 2023

Secretarial support Secretary to Professor Forton and Dr Clark                 0208 725 3032 Secretary to Drs Singanayagam, Yalcin & Gess           0208 725 3429 Secretary to Dr Hughes and Sally Pannifex                 0208 266 6178 …
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Information for Health Professionals

| Updated 31 Oct 2025

Hepatology Clinical Assessment Service (CAS) All referrals from primary care and internal referrals go through our Hepatology CAS service, designed to streamline the process by pre-loading first patient contact with diagnostic tests, to facilitate more rapid diagnosis, decision making and management plans. The service involves a virtual appointment in which …
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Factsheets and Useful Links

| Updated 8 Oct 2025

Patient Factsheets St. George’s Hospital Factsheets about conditions and treatments within hepatology. Hepatology CAS leaflet The hepatology clinical assessment service (CAS) is a virtual service in which consultants will review your GP / physician referral, and plan for investigations prior to a physical appointment if required, or provide advice / …
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