Our services include consultant and specialist nurse-led clinics. The Hospital for Tropical Diseases (HTD) serves travellers, migrants, refugees, and those preparing for travel, as well as patients with non-travel-related infections.
Address
2nd Floor, Mortimer Market Clinic
Mortimer Market Building
Capper Street
Tottenham Court Road
London
WC1E 6JB
Referral
Other referral information
Consultant outpatient appointments and clinical advice
For emergency admissions or urgent clinical advice, contact the UCLH switchboard at 020 3456 7890 and ask for the on-call tropical medicine registrar (24-hour service).
We accept the following as emergency or routine admissions:
- Adult patients with proven or suspected tropical diseases
- Adult patients with proven or suspected infectious diseases, regardless of travel history
- Adult patients for investigation of pyrexia of unknown origin (PUO), regardless of travel history
Appointments are by GP referral only. Our consultants specialise in fields such as parasitology, Hansen’s disease (leprosy), fungal infections, bites and stings, and tropical dermatology. Referrals can be made to named consultants or triaged to the most appropriate consultant.
All clinics are held in the Mortimer Market building.
Patients may be seen within 24 hours as emergencies. Those who have returned from the tropics in the last six months and are unwell with fevers, bloody diarrhoea or rash may refer themselves as emergency attenders during normal outpatient clinic times (9 am - 4 pm, weekdays) at HTD, Mortimer Market.
Out of hours (after 4 pm) or at weekends and/or bank holidays emergency attenders should go to the UCLH emergency department.
Emergency walk-in clinic
The emergency walk-in clinic is an adult clinic for travellers who have returned from the tropics within the last 6 months and are recently unwell with conditions such as fever, diarrhoea, or rash.
We also see patients who have had a potential exposure to rabies and will administer post-exposure rabies treatment if needed after a risk assessment.
Travel clinic
The Travel Clinic at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases (HTD) offers a range of services to ensure safe and healthy travel including:
- Complex travel medicine: Tailored advice and vaccinations for travelers with complex itineraries or health conditions.
- Organisational screening: Health screenings for employees of organizations who travel frequently.
- Post-tropical screening: Health checks for individuals returning from tropical regions to identify any potential infections or health issues.
Specialist infectious and tropical diseases services
Many of our consultants in infectious and tropical diseases hold the only dedicated NHS positions in their respective fields, including parasitology, leprosy, leishmaniasis, and tropical dermatology.
Rapid access and OPAT services
The RAID (Rapid Access Infectious Diseases) clinic provides prompt assessment and management by specialists for patients with recent or acute infections who don’t need hospital admission.
Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy (OPAT) provides IV antibiotics for infections in an outpatient or community setting, offering a safe and effective alternative to inpatient care for medically stable patients
- Cutaneous larva migrans (CLM)
- Dengue fever patient information films
- Doença de Chagas
- Emergency walk in clinic
- Enfermedad de Chagas
- Getting results
- Going home with a cannula
- Having a lumbar puncture
- Managing your malaria infection as an outpatient
- Outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (OPAT)
- Post Tropical Screening
- Rabies post exposure prophylaxis
- Rapid Access Infectious Diseases (RAID)
- Removal of bot/tumbu flies and jigger fleas
- Schistosomiasis
- Skin snips
- The Hospital for Tropical Diseases Outpatient Services
- Threadworm infection
