Children’s services

Overview
Contact
Referrals
The team
Patient leaflets

Overview

Children's services at the Royal Free London are based at four main hospitals: Barnet Hospital, Chase Farm Hospital, Edgware Hospital and the Royal Free Hospital.

We provide a wide range of services for children in north London from birth to 18 years of age. Services are provided by teams of professionals that consist of paediatricians, neonatologists, nurses and allied health professionals who are specialists in children’s health.

Please check your admission letter to ensure you attend the correct hospital for your appointment.

Contact

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Find your ward

Barnet Hospital

Wellhouse Lane
Barnet
EN5 3DJ
Patient enquiries: 020 8216 5192
GP enquiries: 020 8216 5418
Galaxy ward: 020 8216 5193
Gill Martin, ENT clinical nurse specialist: 07852428381, Mon-Fri 8am-4pm
Chase Farm Hospital

The Ridgeway
Enfield
Middlesex
EN2 8JL

Patient and GP enquiries: 020 8216 4933
Child development services

Child Health HQ
Edgware Community Hospital
Burnt Oak Broadway
Edgware
HA8 0AD

020 7794 0500 followed by extension:

Deputy office manager and medical secretary: x26457 or x26382
Audiology secretary and appointments: x82398 (DD: 020 3758 2398)
Clinic coordinator: x82420 (DD: 020 3758 2420)
Office manager: x26217
Medical and SEN secretary: x26272
Edgware Community Hospital

Burnt Oak Broadway
Edgware
Middlesex
HA8 0AD

Patient enquiries: 020 8732 6382

GP enquiries: 020 8732 6420
Oak Lane Health Centre

Oak Lane
East Finchley
London
N2 8LT

Patient and GP enquiries: 020 8349 7000
Royal Free Hospital

Pond Street
London
NW3 2QG

Patient enquiries: 020 7830 2144
GP enquiries: 020 7830 2143
Ward 6 North: 020 7830 2732
Gill Martin, ENT clinical nurse specialist: 07852428381, Mon-Fri 8am-4pm
St Michael's Hospital

Cedar House
Gater Drive
Enfield
EN2 0JB

Patient enquiries: 020 8375 2980

GP enquiries: 020 8375 2979

Referrals

Referral details

Barnet Hospital or Chase Farm Hospital
Urgent referrals:
GPs will contact the paediatricians at Barnet Hospital if your child needs a very urgent paediatric assessment that cannot wait for a paediatric outpatient clinic.

Routine referrals sent to our hospitals from GPs are checked by a consultant paediatrican to ensure that your child will be given an appointment in the most appropriate clinic.

Royal Free Hospital

Urgent referrals:
For very urgent assessment of an acutely ill child either on the same day or the following day, please contact the consultant paediatrician on call on 020 7794 0500 bleep 1000. Once confirmed, please email the referral to: rf.paedsurc@nhs.net

Please note: If you have not discussed the referral with the consultant paediatrician and an appointment has not been confirmed – your referral will not be accepted.

Routine referrals:
Please refer using e-RS. We will not accept any paper referrals from GP’s outside e-RS. Please contact your CCG for further information.

Community child health
This service provides assessments for younger children, resident in the London Boroughs of Barnet and Enfield, where there are concerns about development and/or behaviour. Referrals are usually made by GPs, health visitors, therapists or hospital paediatricians.

The aim of the assessments is to understand the child’s abilities alongside their developmental level, to investigate possible causes of delays or difficulties and to make recommendations on how to support the child and family.

Referrals are reviewed by a multi disciplinary team who will direct the child to the most appropriate service.

Child development clinic
Referral criteria
We will see the following children:

Children up to the age of seven years old, where there is concern about their neuro-developmental progress.
Older children with conditions of complex disability.
Older children who present with unexplained learning disability (we will exclude medical causes of learning disability but we are not able to provide detailed cognitive assessments; this would be the remit of an education psychologist).
Children who require a medical assessment as part of their education, health and care needs assessment.

We will accept referrals from GPs, schools or any health professional. For school-aged children, we prefer to receive referrals from the child’s school. Download our referral form.

We do not offer assessments for the following:

Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD) in children older than seven years.
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in children with otherwise normal development.

These children need to be referred to the local child and adolescent mental health service (CAMHS) via their own ACCESS referral form.

The Team

Consultant
Dr Clare Cane
Consultant neonatologist and paediatrician

Phone number: 020 8216 5160/5161
PA/secretary phone number: 020 8216 5165
Dr Victoria Chapman
Consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist

Phone number: 020 7830 2931
Email address: vic.chapman@nhs.net
PA/secretary email address: rose.blackmore@nhs.net
Dr Rahul Chodhari
Consultant paediatrician

Phone number: 0207 794 0500, extension 33066
Email address: R.Chodhari@nhs.net
Private practice phone number: 020 7317 7751
Dr Carmen Clemente
Consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist

Phone number: 020 7830 2931
Email address: carmen.clemente@nhs.net
Fax: 020 7830 2810
Dr Daniel Crespi
Consultant Paediatric Gastroenterologist,
Honorary Clinical Associate Professor, UCL Medical School

Phone number: 0207 830 2782 or 0207 794 0500 ext 33066
PA/secretary phone number: 020 7830 2782
PA/secretary email address: sue.hempstead@nhs.net; connie.mattina@nhs.net
Fax: 020 7830 2146
Private practice phone number: 0207 317 7751 or 0795 655 0446
Private practice email address: rf.privateenquiries@nhs.net; contact@kidsgastrocare.co.uk
Dr Paul de Keyser
Consultant paediatrician

Phone number: 020 8216 5412
Dr Victoria E Dublon
Consultant paediatrician with an interest in diabetes and endocrinology and liaison paediatrician for eating disorders

PA/secretary phone number: 020 3758 2000
Mr Ricky Emanuel
Consultant child and adolescent psychotherapist and head of child psychotherapy services

Phone number: 0207 830 2931
Email address: r.emanuel@nhs.net
Dr Mark Furman
Consultant paediatric gastroenterologist(Clinical lead for paediatric gastroenterology)

Phone number: 020 7830 2782
PA/secretary email address: sue.hempstead@nhs.net
Fax: 020 7830 2146
Private practice phone number: 07788 444 046
Dr Susie Gabbie
Consultant paediatrician

Phone number: 020 7794 0500 ext 38966
PA/secretary email address: jordine.forde@nhs.net
Dr Mike Greenberg
Barnet Hospital Medical Director
Consultant paediatrican
Dr Laila Hamidi-Manesh
Consultant paediatrician

Phone number: 020 8216 5412
Email address: Lhamidi-manesh@nhs.net
Dr Sebastian Hendricks
Consultant audiovestibular physician and paediatricianClinical lead for paediatric audiology and audiovestibular medicine servicesLead for clinical governance, children’s directorate

Email address: s.hendricks@nhs.net
PA/secretary phone number: 020 8732 6224/020 8375 2917
Fax: 020 8732 6474
Dr Austin Isaacs
Consultant paediatrician

Phone number: 020 8216 4873
Email address: austin.isaacs@nhs.net
PA/secretary phone number: 020 8216 4074
PA/secretary email address: chris.howard1@nhs.net
Fax: 020 8216 5410
Dr Krishnakumar Jada
Consultant paediatrician

Phone number: 020 8216 4869
Email address: kjada@nhs.net
Dr Karen Job
Consultant paediatrician and service line lead for speciality paediatrics

Phone number: 020 8216 4361
PA/secretary phone number: 020 8216 5160/5161 or 020 8216 4074
Dr Felicity Katz
Consultant community paediatrician

PA/secretary phone number: 020 3317 2255
PA/secretary email address: rf.communitypaediatricsadmin@nhs.net
Dr Su Laurent
Consultant paediatrician

Email address: sue.laurent@nhs.net
PA/secretary phone number: 020 8216 5418
PA/secretary email address: ruth.marks@nhs.net
Dr Santanu Maity
Consultant paediatrician

Phone number: 020 7794 0500 ext 33066
PA/secretary phone number: 020 7794 0500 x33066
PA/secretary email address: connie.mattina@nhs.net
Fax: 020 7830 2003
Dr Kin Wai Man
Consultant paediatrician

Phone number: 020 7794 0500 ext 33066
PA/secretary email address: justine.alima@nhs.net
Dr Mary Mathias
Consultant paediatric haematologist

PA/secretary phone number: 020 7794 0500 ext. 34140
PA/secretary email address: r.mahomedkhan@nhs.net
Dr Shubhasree Mukherjee
Consultant Paediatrics

PA/secretary phone number: 020 8216 4600 extension 32305
PA/secretary email address: caroline.caney@nhs.net
Dr Isioma Onyekpe
Neonatal consultant
Dr Juliet Pearce
Consultant Paediatrician

Phone number: 020 8216 5241
Email address: juliet.pearce@nhs.net
PA/secretary phone number: ilyse.antoniou2@nhs.net
Dr Jane Runnacles
Consultant paediatrician

Email address: j.runnacles@nhs.net
PA/secretary phone number: 020 3758 2000 ext 35095
Dr Lara Shaffer
Consultant paediatrician

Phone number: 020 8732 6559
Email address: lara.shaffer@nhs.net
PA/secretary phone number: 020 8732 6420
Fax: 020 8732 6474
Dr Christina Snowden
Consultant
Mr Cheka Radcliffe Spencer
Consultant ENT/head and neck surgeon and ENT clinical lead

Email address: cheka.spencer1@nhs.net
PA/secretary phone number: 020 7794 0500 extension 36897
PA/secretary email address: caroline.poole6@nhs.net
Dr Marice Theron
Consultant paediatrician

Phone number: 020 7794 0500 ext 35095
Email address: marice.theron@nhs.net
Dr Anusha Tissera Withanachchi
Consultant paediatrician

Phone number: 020 8375 2987
PA/secretary email address: shane.barr@nhs.net
Fax: 020 8375 2982
Dr Tim Wickham
Consultant paediatrician

Phone number: 020 8216 5153
Email address: Tim.wickham@nhs.net
Dr Shye-Wei Wong
Consultant paediatrician

Phone number: 020 7794 0500 ext 33066
Management team
Mr Ray Bywater
Children's homecare/Barnet Hospital PAU manager

Phone number: 020 8216 5242 or 0208 375 1992
Email address: ray.bywater@nhs.net
Fax: 020 8216 5244
Mr Mark Goninon
Head of children's nursing

Phone number: 020 3758 2000 ext 37547 or ext 65207
Email address: mark.goninon@nhs.net
Nursing team
Ms Diane Akuoko
Acting community matron

Phone number: 020 7830 2571
Email address: diane.akuoko@nhs.net
Priscilla Chong
Senior clinical practice educator for neonates

Phone number: 020 8216 5160
Email address: p.chong@nhs.net
Mrs Helen Demetriades
Senior sister, Chase Farm Hospital paediatric assessment unit

Phone number: 020 8375 2649
Email address: helen.demetriades@nhs.net
Althea Fergus
Clinical practice educator for paediatrics

Phone number: 020 7830 2732
Email address: althea.fergus@nhs.net
Mr Daniel Hickey
Paediatric nocturnal enuresis senior nurse

Phone number: 020 7794 0500 ext. 54206
Email address: daniel.hickey@nhs.net
Ronelle Miguel
Senior clinical practice educator for paediatrics

Phone number: 020 7830 2732
Email address: ronelle.miguel@nhs.net
Mrs Kerry Neate
Paediatric specialist nurse - allergy

Phone number: 020 8216 4906 or 0208 216 4074
Email address: kerry.neate@nhs.net
Mrs Joanna Sloat
Paediatric epilepsy clinical nurse specialist

Phone number: 020 7830 2571
Email address: joanna.sloat@nhs.net
Fax: 020 7830 2146