Infectious diseases and tropical medicine

Our infectious diseases and tropical medicine department will see you if you have TB, HIV, or other infections or tropical diseases.

Location: Central Middlesex, Ealing, and Northwick Park Hospitals
Division: Integrated medicine
General manager: Carol Wallace

Our infectious diseases and tropical medicine department is the largest in the country.

Our consultants work alongside junior doctors and our specialist nursing team to:

• work daily with LNWH's Acute Medicine team in caring for patients on our Acute Assessment Unit
• help your medical team care for you if you have sepsis or other critical conditions related to infection
• work closely with our GUM and HIV outpatient teams to care for you if you have HIV
• look after you if you have HIV and need inpatient care
• look after you if you have severe or complicated tuburculosis (including drug resistant TB)
• look after you if you have a tropical infection.

We assess and care for you if you have symptoms of an infection or tropical disease, such as:

• tuberculosis (TB)
• malaria
• skin, bone and kidney infections, including chronic viral hepatitis B.