Department of Diabetes and Endocrinology

Service / Department specialties

• General diabetes clinic, new patient and follow-ups and general endocrine clinic.
• New patient and follow-ups weekly on all 3 sites.
• Specialist diabetes clinics for adolescents and young adults on all 3 sites.
• Specialist diabetes/endocrine ante-natal clinic held every 2 weeks at Watford and St Albans.
• Close links with tertiary endocrine services, including pituitary disorders with Queen Square.
• Adrenal and parathyroid with Hammersmith and/or Oxford. Parathyroid Surgery with Imperial.
• Chronic Fatigue is covering services for all of Herts linked to St Bartholomew’s. Hospital within a managed network.
• Specialist diabetes Pump Clinics at Watford site.
• Nurse led clinics for diabetes and endocrine on all 3 sites.
• Telephone clinics for diabetes and endocrine.
• Teaching for patients and health care professionals.

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Consultants

• Dr Thomas Galliford
• Dr Arif Hamda
• Dr Colin Johnston
• Dr Chantal Kong
• Dr Arla Ogilvie
• Dr Julia Ostberg
• Dr Ana Pokrajac
• Dr Pawan Pulsakar

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Referrals

Referrals are made by letter, SPOC referral forms graded by Drs or Choose and Book

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Outpatient Clinics

Day of week	Location
Monday am
Diabetic clinic for NEW patients	Watford
Diabetic clinic for NEW patients and Follow Up patients, including a Foot clinic	Hemel Hempstead
Tuesday am
Diabetic clinic for NEW patients and Follow Up patients and including a Foot clinic	St Albans
Combined Antenatal clinic 1st and 3rd Tuesday of month	St Albans
Tuesday pm
Adolescent Clinic 2-4pm - 3rd Tuesday of month	Hemel Hempstead
Adolescent Clinic 2-4pm - Last Tuesday of month	St Albans
Young adult clinic 4-6pm - 3rd Tuesday of month	Hemel Hempstead
Young adult clinic 4-6pm - Last Tuesday of month	St Albans
Wednesday am
Diabetic clinic for follow up patients	Watford
Thursday am
Endocrine Clinic	Hemel Hempstead
Thursday pm
Endocrine Clinic	Watford
Friday am
Endocrine Clinic	St Albans
Combined antenatal clinic (alternative weeks)	Watford

Contact Details

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Hemel Hempstead Hospital

Consultants

• Dr Tom Galliford
• Dr Ana Pokrajac
• Dr Chantal Kong
• Dr Pawan Pusalkar

Secretaries

• Judith Conlon – 01442 287083
• Sharon Meccariello – 01442 287482

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St Albans City Hospital

Consultants

• Dr Chantal Kong
• Dr Colin Johnston

Secretaries

• Melanie Barnham – 01727 897858

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Watford General Hospital

Consultants

• Dr Arla Ogilvie
• Dr Tom Galliford
• Dr Ana Pokrajac
• Dr Julia Ostberg
• Dr Pawan Pusalkar
• Dr Arif Hamda
• Dr Colin Johnston

Secretaries

• Leslie Sweeting-White – 01923 217287
• Joanna Wilson – 01923 436033
• Gabriella Parry – 01923 217696
• Secretary – 01923 217800

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Diabetes Specialist Nurses (covering all 3 sites, contact numbers as above)

• Sharon Carter
• Caroline Harris
• Chris Feben
• Sonia Fullerton
• Wendy Liberty
• Kieran Mullan
• Phyllis Renehan
• Katherine Tamayo
• Laura Thomas

Endocrine Specialist Nurses (covering all 3 sites as above)

• George Kabambe - 01923 217848
• Darshna Patel

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Dieticians

• Debbie Blissitt 01923 218135 Bleep 1161
• Joan Pollack 01923 217414 Bleep 1074

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Foot Health Service

Tel: 01582 711545
Fax: 01582 765537

Podiatrists

• Peter Smith
• Rebecca Gardner

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Retinal Screening

Watford, Hemel, St Albans 01442 285825