Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)

Our specialist Inflammatory Bowel Disease team look after you for all parts of your IBD care.

Telephone number: 020 8453 2368
Location: St Mark's at Central Middlesex Hospital
Division: Surgery
General manager: Ann Lewis

Our specialist team look after you for all parts of your IBD care, including:

• care from our doctors and nurses
• any surgical treatment you might need
• psychological and nutritional support
• supporting young people as they transition from childhood to adulthood
• research and education.

Our nursing team are your first point of contact if you require any advice or support about your IBD. Just leave a message on our advice line if you have a query, particularly if you're concerned that you are becoming unwell.

Our nursing team may also see you for clinic appointments, especially if you've been recently diagnosed, and can provide you with treatments such as:

• Infliximab
• Adalimumab
• Methotrexate
• intravenous iron therapies.

You can find our IBD outpatient clinics:

• at St Mark's Hospital, level 3
• at Central Middlesex Hospital, level 1, BeCAD.

Our department is open:

• Monday to Thursday, 9am - 5pm
• Fridays, 9am - 12noon.

At your outpatient appointment

When you first arrive at your outpatient appointment, please expect to be weighed by the outpatient nursing staff, who are also available to assist you whilst you are in the department.

At your outpatient appointment, we will:

• review your current symptoms
• physically examine you, if appropriate
• discuss any concerns you might have
• take some blood from you for a blood test, if you need one.

If you're coming for a follow-up appointment, it's important that any tests or investigations that we wanted you to have are completed before you come to see us. If you receive an appointment and your tests haven't been completed, please get in touch with our outpatients department so that they can rearrange your appointment.

Read more about your outpatient appointment.

Facilities 

Toilet facilities are available directly inside the main entrance to St Mark’s Hospital (right hand side). There are also toilets located within each individual department at both hospitals. If you need any assistance finding them, just speak with a member of staff.

Read more about our facilities at:

• Central Middlesex Hospital
• Northwick Park Hospital
• St. Mark's Hospital

Our dedicated intestinal imaging unit is equipped with modern digital screening units and ultrasound scanners. It performs specialised contrast and ultrasound studies including: 

• evacuation proctography
• transit studies
• endosonography of the anus and rectum
• pouchography
• sinography
• modified video swallows with the speech therapy department
• barium studies including small bowel enema intubation examinations
• double contrast barium enemas
• transvaginal ultrasound
• CT of the abdomen and pelvis
• MRI of the abdomen, pelvis and anal fistula
• endocoil studies of the anus.

St Mark's Hospital also offers Virtual Colonoscopy as part of our bowel cancer screening programme.

• Find out more about our endoscopy service.
• Find out more about bowel cancer screening.

Our IBD Patient Panel meets regularly to discuss our care. If you use our service, or are the carer of someone who uses our service, it's a forum for you to offer our team feedback and suggestions for improvements.

If you would like to contribute to the Patient Panel by either attending the meetings, or by highlighting a particular area you would like to see the panel address, please get in touch with the IBD nurse to join the IBD Patient Panel.

Our stoma care service

Find out more about our stoma care service.

Other organisations

• Information about Crohn’s and colitis on the Crohn's and Colitis UK website
• Information for children with Crohn’s and colitis via the CICRA website
• Information for patients on the gut via the Gut UK website
• Comprehensive information about living with a stoma via the Colostomy UK website 
• Ileostomy and internal pouch support group via the IA support website 
• National charity supporting people living with irritable bowel syndrom via the IBS network website

As a specialist hospital in IBD, we have an active research and clinical trials programme. We may ask you if you're interested in participating in a research project, but you are not under any obligation to take part.

If you're interested in taking part in some of our research, or just want more information, get in touch with our clinical trials co-ordinator on 07799 765 239.