Refer a patient to the Audiological Medicine department

How to refer a patient

For an outpatient appointment

As a tertiary care hospital, all children who attend Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) must be referred via local hospital consultants or consultant community paediatricians.

We accept tertiary referrals for children up to 16 years old regarding the following:

• hearing loss

• auditory processing disorders

• bone anchored hearing aids

• cochlear implants

• aetiological investigations for hearing loss

• balance difficulties

Referrals should be made to:

Audiology department
Great Ormond Street Hospital
Great Ormond Street
London
WC1N 3JH

Inter hospital transfer

Please contact the Audiology department directly on telephone number 020 7813 8430 if the transfer is an emergency (patients that need life or limb saving treatment at GOSH within a few hours), or urgent (patients that need transfer to GOSH but not in the emergency category).

How to get advice

For patients known to GOSH

Please contact the audiology department directly on telephone number 020 7813 8430

For patients not known to GOSH

Please contact the audiology department directly on telephone number 020 7813 8430

Key staff

• Dr Tony Sirimanna, Consultant Audiological Physician.
  Tony.Sirimanna@gosh.nhs.uk

• Dr Ewa Raglan, Consultant Audiological Physician. 
  Ewa.Raglan@gosh.nhs.uk

• Dr Raouf Chorbachi, Consultant Audiological Physician.
  Raouf.Chorbachi@gosh.nhs.uk

• Dr Doris Bamiou, Consultant Audiological Physician

• Dr Reeya Motha, SpR Registrar (maternity leave from Feb 2012).
  Reeya.motha@gosh.nhs.uk

• Dr Priya Jeyanathan, SpR Registrar (taking over Reeya, Feb 2012). 
  Priya.Jeyanathan@gosh.nhs.uk

• Dr Carolyn Ainsworth, SpR Registrar.
  Carolyn.Ainsworth@gosh.nhs.uk

• Shanaz (Naz) Rani, Audiologist.
  Shanaz.Rani@gosh.nhs.uk
  020 7813 8315

• Melanie Miller, Audiologist.
  Melanie.Miller@gosh.nhs.uk 
  020 7813 8315

• Brindha Anandanadarajah, Audiologist. 
  Brinda.Anandanadarajah@gosh.nhs.uk 
  020 7813 8315

• Robyn Richards, Audiologist.
  Robyn.Richards@gosh.nhs.uk
  020 7813 8315

• Samanthi Senanayake, Audiologist. 
  Samanthi.Senanayake@gosh.nhs.uk
  020 7813 8315

• John Veness, Audiologist.
  John.Veness@gosh.nhs.uk
  020 7813 8315

Admin office

• Karen Siret Office Manager/Co-ordinator.
  Karen.Siret@gosh.nhs.uk
  020 7813 8316
  020 7813 8108 (fax)

• Nargis Awan, Medical PA. 
  Nargis.Awan@gosh.nhs.uk
  020 7405 9200 ext 1320

• Zaina Langley, Medical PA. 
  Zaina.Langley@gosh.nhs.uk 
  020 7405 9200 ext 6430

• Jenny Carter, Clinic Co-ordinator. 
  Jenny.Carter@gosh.nhs.uk 
  020 7829 7992

Services and facilities

The team of audiologists, clinical scientists and audiovestibular physicians provide an integrated service. At GOSH we see patients as young as newborns right through to the late teenage years, and accept referrals from within the hospital and from external consultants.

We provide a routine service for the fitting of digital hearing aids, being a second wave site on the NHS national Modernising Hearing Aid Services programme.

In addition, we have developed a number of protocols and contributed to the formulation of several national guidelines for the management of children with the following conditions:

• auditory neuropathy/auditory dys-synchrony (designated as a national centre)

• auditory processing disorders

• balance disorders in children

• cochlear implantation

• bone anchored hearing aids

• management of patients with ototoxicity

Feedback and suggestions

Sarah Metson
Operational Manager
Email: Sarah.Metson@gosh.nhs.uk

Audiology department
Great Ormond Street Hospital
Great Ormond Street
London
WC1N 3JH

020 7405 9200 ext. 6194