The epilepsy service at National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery at Queen Square and National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery at Chalfont provides a comprehensive service for patients with epilepsy and for those with suspected seizures and has one of the largest, most comprehensive programmes in Europe for the evaluation and medical and surgical treatment of epilepsy.
Our multi-disciplinary team of world-leading experts includes neurologists, neurosurgeons, neuro-psychiatrists and neurophysiologists – working closely with epilepsy nurse specialists, neuro-psychologists and other specialties.
The epilepsy group works within UCLH and has close links with UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology and UCL Partners, including Great Ormond Street Hospital and UCL Great Ormond St Institute of Child Health.
These links allow the epilepsy group to evaluate and treat the widest range of patients – ranging from individuals seeking diagnosis after their first seizure to more complex cases, including those for whom epilepsy forms only part of a broader medical or surgical condition.
Patient contact
Other contact information
| Epilepsy at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery (Queen Square) | National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery at Chalfont |
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Epilepsy Box 29 New appointments Follow up appointments
Epilepsy nurse helpline (current UCLH patients only) Private Healthcare at UCLH Visiting doctors |
Chalfont Centre for Epilepsy, Reception Pre-admission clinic: Secretary contact details:
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Other referral information
Advice and guidance for epilepsy
If you need advice from the Epilepsy team, please use the eRS advice and guidance for written communication.
The service is intended for patients who are currently not seen within the services (17 or over) with seizure diagnosis and can be used for:
- Medical management queries
- Requirement for further support (such as interpretation of test results) or
- Uncertainty around the need for referral
For advice on patients who are currently under follow up with the team, please contact the patient’s consultant or the epilepsy nurse specialists.
How to find us on eRS
Specialty: Neurology
Clinic Type: Epilepsy
Organisation/Location: National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery-Queen Square
Service name: Adult Epilepsy Advice & Guidance – NHNN – UCLH – RRV
Outpatient services
- First seizure clinic – assessment of up to 10 new patients per week with suspected first seizures, usually referred from Emergency Departments but also from their GP.
- Epilepsy out-patient clinics at Queen Square and at Chalfont – assessment of suspected seizures, investigation of newly-diagnosed epilepsy, medical management and surgical management of epilepsy (see Guide for patients considering epilepsy surgery) as well as second opinions. Patients are referred by their GP but also by neurologists locally as well as across the UK.
- Obstetric-neurology clinic at the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital – monitoring and advice given to women with epilepsy who are pregnant
- Epilepsy Genetics clinic at Chalfont – known or suspected genetic epilepsy, for testing, counselling, management including precision medicine options where available
- Epilepsy nurse led clinics – at Queen Square and at Chalfont
Inpatient services
- At Queen Square - Following consultation with a consultant neurologist / epileptologist, patients can be admitted for prolonged EEG and simultaneous video-recording to the 7-bed Jules Thorn telemetry unit at at Queen Square. This unit provides a diagnostic service and also forms an essential component of the epilepsy surgery programme.
- At Chalfont - The Sir William Gowers Assessment and Treatment Centre in Chalfont St Peter (NHNN at Chalfont) is a 26-bed facility which offers video-EEG telemetry, MRI, drug level monitoring, neurology, neuropsychiatry and psychology, and admits 1000 patients per year from all over the UK and Ireland for in-depth multidisciplinary assessment and treatment.
