Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia
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St George’s is the Specialist Haemoglobinopathy Team (SHT) for South-West London and parts of Surrey, Sussex and Hampshire – working with local teams in Epsom and St Helier, Kingston, Guildford, Frimley, Ashford and St Peters and East Surrey. We look after patients living with sickle cell, thalassaemia and rare anaemias and provide emergency inpatient care alongside specialist outpatient services including transfusion, transplantation, disease intervention, pain management, psychological therapies and supporting patients being looked after by other specialties and teams.
Patients being admitted via the Emergency Department should be managed in line with their individual care plans and departmental guidelines and if being admitted under Haematology should be on Gordon-Smith Ward our Haematology ward.
Treatments
Treatment 1 – Apheresis Service – Gordon-Smith Ward
Treatment 2 – Top up Transfusions – Ruth Myles Day Unit
Treatment 3 – Hydroxycarbamide Therapy
Treatment 4 – Stem Cell Transplantation
Treatment 5 – Iron chelation therapy
Key staff
Dr Julia Sikorska – Consultant Haematologist, Clinical Lead for Service
Dr Elizabeth Rhodes – Consultant Haematologist
Dr James Masters – Consultant Haematologist
Nazik Osei – Clinical Nurse Specialist
Ena Akomah-Barnier – Clinical Nurse Specialist
Dr Yvonne Whelan – Clinical Psychologist and lead for Red Cell Pain Management Psychology Service
Dr Stephen McIntyre – Clinical Psychologist
Dr Faith Eyoma – Assistant Psychologist
Rebecca McLoughlin – NIHR Doctoral Clinical and Practitioner Fellow, Highly Specialist Physiotherapist RCPMPS
Liam Galvin – Haemoglobinopathies Pathway Manager
Zhian Li – Apheresis Senior Sister
Gemma Cohen – Senior Sister of the Haematology Day Unit
Jois Arikupurath– Haemoglobinopathy Data Manager