Rheumatology

Overview
Contact
Referrals
The team
Patient leaflets

Overview

The rheumatology team is proud to offer world class specialist services, with referrals from across the UK to our specialist scleroderma and sarcoidosis and multi-system inflammatory disease clinics.

Our dedicated multi-disciplinary team, including a host of clinicians and researchers, work closely together to provide prompt diagnosis and management of a wide spectrum of rheumatic diseases.

Our early inflammatory arthritis and psoriatic arthritis clinics enable prompt access to musculoskeletal imaging, including ultrasound, facilitating best practice for our patients with inflammatory arthritis and spondylitis.

We maintain close links with colleagues in other specialities relevant to rheumatic diseases. We have combined clinics with dermatology and a consultant respiratory physician attends our weekly sarcoidosis and connective tissue disease clinic.

We have on-site physiotherapy, hydrotherapy, orthotics and occupational therapy services. We also have access to a clinical psychologist for our patients with psoriatic arthritis, with plans to extend this service to all those with inflammatory rheumatic diseases.

Contact

Do you have an appointment?

Find your ward

Royal Free Hospital, lower ground floor

Tel: 020 7794 0500 x 34048/34051

Fax: 020 7830 2428
Back pain clinic

Tel: 020 375 82042
Nurses

Scleroderma/CTD nurse: 020 375 82042 + option 6
Drug monitoring nurse: 020 375 82042 + option 6
Biologics nurse: 020 375 82042 + option 6

Nurses are available on these numbers Monday to Friday 9am-5pm. They are not available at weekends or on bank holidays. An answer machine service is available and we aim to return your call within 48 hours.
PITU (day clinic)

020 375 82042 + option 3

PITU (Planned Investigation Treatment Unit) admissions telephone line available Monday to Friday 8am-10pm. Not available at weekends or bank holidays.
Registrars

020 7794 0500 ext 38491

Available Monday to Friday 9am-5pm.
Bleep numbers 1806 and 1807.

Please note that the on call service is not exclusive to rheumatology – the junior doctor on call rota is shared with other speciality teams on weekends, with non-specialist (general medicine) cover from 10pm-9am.
Rheumatology secretaries

Dr Animesh Singh: 020 375 82042 + option 2

Dr Huw Beynon: 020 375 82042 + option 2

Prof Chris Denton: 020 375 82042 + option 2

Dr Carmen Fonseca: 020 375 82042 + option 2

Dr Pamela Mangat: 020 375 82042 + option 2

Dr Voon Ong: 020 375 82042 + option 2

Dr Benji Schreiber: 020 375 82042 + option 2

Dr Richard Stratton: 020 375 82042 + option 2

Referrals

Referral details

Appointments can be made following a referral from a GP, and may be made through the choose and book system, or as tertiary referrals from other hospitals.

Psoriasis clinic referral pathway.

The Team

Consultant
Dr Huw Beynon
Consultant rheumatologist and general physician

Phone number: 020 375 82042
PA/secretary phone number: 020 375 82042
PA/secretary email address: adeyinka.ige@nhs.net
Private practice phone number: 020 7034 8143
Professor Christopher Denton
Consultant rheumatologist

PA/secretary phone number: 020 375 82042 + option 2
PA/secretary email address: adeyinka.ige@nhs.net
Fax: 020 7794 0432
Private practice email address: pamela.yeomans@ntlworld.com
Dr Emma Derrett-Smith
Consultant rheumatologist

PA/secretary phone number: 020 375 82042 + option 2
PA/secretary email address: adeyinka.ige@nhs.net
Fax: 020 7830 2428
Dr Jeffrey Hsiao Meng Lee
Consultant rheumatologist Trust osteoporosis leadClinical lead for Barnet DEXA service

Phone number: 020 8216 4028
PA/secretary phone number: 020 8216 4028
PA/secretary email address: sandra.davies7@nhs.net
Fax: 020 8216 5471
Dr Pamela Mangat
Consultant rheumatologist

Email address: pamela.mangat@nhs.net
PA/secretary phone number: 020 375 82042 + option 2
PA/secretary email address: keith.chawgo@nhs.net
Fax: 020 7830 2428
Private practice phone number: 020 8341 3422
Dr Rapti Mediwake
Consultant Rheumatologist & General Physician

Phone number: 020 8216 4028
PA/secretary phone number: 020 8216 4028
PA/secretary email address: sandra.day4@nhs.net
Dr Malcolm Persey
Consultant rheumatologist

Phone number: 020 8375 1608
PA/secretary phone number: 020 8375 1608
PA/secretary email address: zohra.nahaboo@nhs.net
Fax: 020 8375 2100
Dr Benjamin Schreiber
Consultant in pulmonary hypertension and rheumatology

Phone number: 020 375 82042
Email address: benjamin.schreiber@nhs.net
PA/secretary email address: 020 375 82042 + option 2
Fax: 020 7317 7747
Dr Philip Shea-Simonds
Consultant rheumatologist and general physician

Phone number: 020 375 82042
PA/secretary email address: 020 8375 1608
Fax: 020 8375 2100/020 8732 6825
Dr Richard Stratton
Consultant in rheumatology and general medicine
Clinical Lead Royal Free-Hampstead site

Phone number: 020 375 82042
Email address: r.stratton@nhs.net
PA/secretary phone number: 020 375 82042 + option 2
Fax: 020 78302428
Professor Hasan Tahir
Consultant rheumatologist and physician

PA/secretary phone number: 020 8216 4028
PA/secretary email address: sandra.day4@nhs.net