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Haemato-Oncology service  

The Haemato-Oncology Service is closely linked to the Royal Marsden Hospital, through a weekly Multidisciplinary Team Meeting, where diagnosis and treatment of Haematological Malignancies is discussed and established . The Royal Marsden Hospital is also the Tertiary Referral Centre for some s alvage chemotherapy and all Autologous and Allogeneic Bone Marrow Transplantation and is the Designated Diagnostic Centre for H a ematologic Malignancies. The weekly MDT meeting includes specialist input from the Royal Marsden, Croydon University Hospital as well as Epsom and St. Helier’s hospitals ensuring every patient with a malignant diagnosis is afforded robust diagnostic and management discussion.   

Haemoglobinopathy Service  

The Haemoglobinopathy Service is supported by the haemoglobinopathies matron and nurse practitioners and the offsite Sickle Cell and Thalassemia Centre.  The Sickle Cell and Thalassemia Centre also provides counselling, education and hospital community liaison. The Haemoglobinopathies Service is part of the South Thames Sickle Cell and Thalassemia Network, with close collaboration with King’s College Hospital and Guy’s and St Thomas’s Hospital as Tertiary Referral Centres.  

More information about the sickle cell and thalassemia service can be found here: A to Z of services | Croydon Health Services NHS Trust  

Haemostasis and Thrombosis Service  

The Haemostasis and Thrombosis Service is provided through out-patient clinics, postal anticoagulation service and domiciliary anticoagulation service. It offers new patient consultations for initiation of anticoagulation (including new generation oral anticoagulants), follow-up and monitoring of patients established on anticoagulation treatment, peri-operative anticoagulation bridging and consultations on cessation of anticoagulation. The service has moved to paperless records, with exclusive use of INR-STAR for management and monitoring of anticoagulation.  Referrals are accept ed from GPs via ERS .  We also see patients with a range of bleeding and thrombotic issues for diagnosis and subsequent management. Regarding Haemophilia Care, we offer diagnostic care and ad-hoc factor support for mild cases, discussed with the Haemophilia Centre where the patient is registered. Severe, complex or challenging cases will be referred to St George’s Hospital or Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust for further evaluation .   

The anti coagulation department offers a walk in service to warfarin patients only at the following times:   

• Monday 07:30- 11:45
• Tuesday CLOSED  
• Wednesday 08:00- 11:45
• Thursday 07:00- 11:45
• Friday 08:00- 11:45  

Laboratory Haematology  

The Trust is part of a multi Trust spoke and hub model with services provided by South West London Pathology Network . St Georges Hospital acts as the group hub where more specialised testing is completed, and Croydon University Hospital, as the spoke w h ere local testing takes place. The Haematology and Blood Transfusion Laboratories are CPA accredited and the Blood Transfusion service is MHRA compliant.   While most testing is completed within the network, some more specialised tests need to be performed by other providers, for example NHS Bloo d and Transplant or Royal Marsden laboratories.   

More information about South West London Pathology can be found here: South West London Pathology | Providing high quality NHS led pathology services to hospitals and GPs (swlpath.nhs.uk)  

  Location  

Croydon University Hospital  

530 London Road  

Croydon  

CR7 7YE  

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