Clinics

Skin lymphoma clinic

Phone: 020 7188 6375, 020 7188 8462 and 020 7188 7188, extension 56252

Address: floor O1, Cancer Centre at Guy's, Great Maze Pond, London SE1 9RT

Time: Monday, 1:30pm to 5:45pm

We provide treatment and care if you have been diagnosed with skin lymphoma.

Our team includes:

• specialist skin and cancer doctors
• dermatopathologists, experts in diagnosing skin samples under a microscope
• nurse specialists
• research nurses
• psychologists

We'll tell you what investigations and treatment you need at your appointment. You'll also be given a key worker and patient tracker to help support you.

We accept referrals from GPs and other hospital doctors.

This clinic is run by our consultants, led by Mary Wain.

Skin lymphoma treatment monitoring clinic

Phone: 020 7188 6375, 020 7188 8462 and 020 7188 7188, extension 56252

Address: dermatology, 3rd floor, Southwark Wing, Guy's Hospital, Great Maze Pond, London SE1 9RT

Time: Wednesday, 9am to 11:25am

We offer face-to-face and telephone appointments at this clinic if you're having treatment for skin lymphoma, such as:

• bexarotene
• methotrexate
• pegylated interferon

The clinic is run by our specialist skin cancer nurses, led by advanced nurse practitioner Claire Lusted.

Melanoma clinic

Phone: 020 7188 6375, 020 7188 8462 and 020 7188 7188, extension 56252

Address: ground floor, Bermondsey Wing, Guy's Hospital, Great Maze Pond, London SE1 9RT

Time: Thursday, 9:20am to 4pm

We provide treatment and care if you have been diagnosed with melanoma.

Our team includes:

• specialist skin and cancer doctors
• plastic surgeons
• dermatopathologists, experts in diagnosing skin samples under a microscope
• nurse specialists
• research nurses
• psychologists

We'll tell you what investigations and treatment you need at your appointment. You'll also be given a key worker and patient tracker to help support you.

We accept referrals from GPs and other hospital doctors.

This clinic is run by our consultants.

Early melanoma follow-up clinic

Phone: 020 7188 7188, extension 56252

Address: dermatology, 3rd floor, Southwark Wing, Guy's Hospital, Great Maze Pond, London SE1 9RT

Time: Wednesday, 9am to 11am (alternate weeks)

We'll see you at this clinic for follow-up and assessment for stage 1 and 2 melanoma.

The clinic is run by advanced nurse practitioner Claire Lusted. You may also see a dermatology consultant during your visit.

Mole screening clinic

Phone: 020 7188 6375

Address: dermatology, 3rd floor, Southwark Wing, Guy's Hospital, Great Maze Pond, London SE1 9RT

Time: Monday, 9.30am to 12.30pm

This clinic is run by our consultant dermatologists, led by Katie Lacy.

Graft versus host disease clinic (GvHD)

Phone: 020 7188 8462

Address: Chemotherapy Village, level C1, Cancer Centre at Guy's, Great Maze Pond, London SE1 9RT

Time: Tuesday, 9:30am to midday

This is a regional clinic for people with persistent GvHD after a donor stem cell transplant.

Treatment options may include extracorporeal photophoresis (ECP) or light therapy. This involves a nurse connecting you to a machine by a drip. Your blood then goes through the machine and some of the white blood cells are removed. These are then treated with a drug, which is activated by ultraviolet light to destroy the abnormal immune cells. The treated cells are then added back into your vein.

We assess your suitability for ECP at the clinic and monitor you when you receive it.

The ECP suite at the Cancer Centre has 6 chairs. It's open Monday to Friday and is able to treat up to 24 patients a day.

Key staff:

• Fiona Child, consultant dermatologist and GvHD clinic lead
• Helen McParland, consultant in oral medicine
• Sukran Saglam, clinical nurse specialist

Skin cancer screening clinic

Phone: 020 7188 6423

Address: dermatology, 3rd floor, Southwark Wing, Guy's Hospital, Great Maze Pond, London SE1 9RT

Times:

• Monday, 9am to midday (2-week wait and skin cancer assessment clinics)
• Tuesday, 9am to midday (2-week wait and skin cancer assessment clinics)
• Tuesday, 2pm to 4pm (clinical nurse specialist telephone consultations)
• Friday, 9am to 4:20pm (2-week wait and skin cancer assessment clinics)

Your GP or health professional can refer you to his clinic if you have:

• a lesion or mole needing diagnosis and treatment, or
• suspected skin cancer

The clinic is run by our consultant dermatologists, led by Rakesh Patalay. You may see a registrar (senior doctor) or skin cancer nurse specialist at your appointment.

Please allow 4 hours for your visit to the clinic. We may examine all your skin, not just the area of concern.

Your appointment could include:

• skin examination with a dermatoscope (magnifier used for skin examinations)
• medical photographs
• talking about sun protection measures

If any further tests are needed, such as a skin biopsy under local anaesthetic, we'll aim to do these on the day. If that's not possible, we'll plan them in the next 2 weeks.

We'll send your results by letter or at another appointment within 4 to 6 weeks. We'll arrange further appointments and treatment if you need them. We can also provide:

• specialist skin cancer nurse support at the clinic
• referral for specialist surgery at our dermatological surgery and laser unit (DSLU) if needed

Teledermatology service

Phone: 020 7188 6423

We'll answer your call Monday to Friday, 7:30am to 5:30pm.

Email: [email protected]

Medical photography

Guy's Hospital: 020 7188 3764

Address: medical photography, 1st floor, Bermondsey Wing, Guy's Hospital, Great Maze Pond, London SE1 9RT

St Thomas' Hospital: 020 7188 5074

Address: medical photography, block C, 1st floor, South Wing, St Thomas' Hospital, Westminster Bridge Road, London SE1 7EH

Opening times: Monday to Friday, 9am to 1pm and 2pm to 5pm

In this clinic, we assess your skin lesions using medical photographs.

It is a quicker way to assess your skin lesions than waiting for a face-to-face appointment. In almost all cases this is an excellent way of diagnosing harmless skin growths or skin changes (referred to as skin lesions).

Your GP will refer you to us if you have 1 or 2 skin lesions that need assessing.

We'll book you a medical photography appointment and send you a questionnaire by text or email. Please complete the questionnaire before your appointment.

We do not offer a full skin check.

If you need any help completing the questionnaire, please contact us. If you cannot complete the questionnaire, please arrive 15 minutes before your medical photography appointment time. This is so that the medical photographer can arrange for someone to help you with this.

At your appointment the medical photographer will:

• review your questionnaire
• photograph the lesions on your skin including a:
  • wide-shot (to show the location on the body)
  • close-up (to show some detail)
  • a microscopic photograph through a lens placed on your skin (to show in-depth detail)

Please see our medical photography appointment page for more information.

You can leave after the photographs have been taken.

A dermatologist (skin doctor) will review your questionnaire and photographs.

We'll contact you within 2 weeks of your medical photography appointment to tell you the outcome. If you have not heard from us after 2 weeks, please contact us.

We'll either:

• discharge you from the clinic and send you and your GP advice and guidance if needed
• arrange a follow-up face-to-face clinic appointment, urgently (usually within 4 weeks) or routinely (usually within 3 months) with a doctor or nurse
• arrange a surgical appointment to see a doctor or nurse to check the skin lesions, and take a biopsy (tissue sample) or remove them

Skin tumour clinical oncology clinic

Phone: 020 7188 8462

Address: ground floor, atrium 3, Bermondsey Wing, Guy's Hospital, Great Maze Pond, London SE1 9RT

Time: Wednesday, 12:40pm to 5:20pm

This clinic is run by our consultant clinical oncologists (cancer specialists), led by Stephen Morris.

Drug toxicity clinic

Phone: 020 7188 6375

Address: ground floor, atrium 3, Bermondsey Wing, Guy's Hospital, Great Maze Pond, London SE1 9RT

Time: Thursday, 9:15am to 3pm

This clinic is run by our consultant dermatologists, led by Katie Lacy.

Immunosuppression clinic

Phone: 020 7188 6423

Address: dermatology, 3rd floor, Southwark Wing, Guy's Hospital, Great Maze Pond, London SE1 9RT

Time: Tuesday, 9am to 11:25am

This clinic is run by our consultant dermatologists, led by Mary Wain.

You may also see a:

• registrar (senior doctor)
• clinical nurse specialist