Allergy

Box: 40

Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Hills Road,

Cambridge,

CB2 0QQ

 

This department provides a comprehensive service in allergy for adults and children. Most patients are seen as outpatients (in Clinic 2A), but we also have inpatient facilities.

 

We provide a service for the diagnosis and management of a wide range of allergic disorders, including:

• Hayfever

• Perennial rhinitis; allergic or non-allergic

• Asthma

• Eczema

• Urticaria and angioedema

• Anaphylaxis

• Food allergy (all types including peanut and nut allergy)

• Drug allergy, including allergy to anaesthetic agents, NSAIDs, antibiotics and local anaesthetics.

For allergy, skin tests and diagnostic challenge tests are performed. There is a specialist nut-allergy clinic and an insect-sting allergy clinic. We provide management plans for anaphylaxis (including training in Epi-pen™ and school visits) and severe reactions, eg glottal oedema. We offer desensitisation for bee-venom and wasp-venom allergy, pollen hayfever and cat allergy.

 

In patients (i) with severe or poorly controlled disease, eg asthma, rhinitis or eczema, (ii) with multi-system allergic disease, or (iii) where an allergic aetiology is suspected, an allergy referral often identifies common triggers and allows a unified approach to management.

 

 

Key contacts:

 

 

Clinic reception: 01223 216 645

 

Appointment enquiries: 01223 216 645

 

Clinical enquiries:	01223 217 777
	01223 586 977
	01223 596 185

 

Clinic Manager: Margaret Harris

 

Fax: 01223 216 953

 

Medical staff:

Dr P. Ewan: Clinical Director/Consultant in Allergy

 

Dr S. Nasser: Consultant in Allergy and lead for Asthma

 

Dr A. Clark: Paediatric Consultant in Allergy

 

Allergy secretaries:

Jean Mead: Secretary to Dr P. Ewan

Tel: 01223 217 777

 

Linda Allars: Secretary to Dr S. Nasser

Tel: 01223 586 977

 

Carol Nolan: Secretary to Dr A. Clark 

Tel: 01223 596 185

 

Deputy Operations Manager:

Gill Love

Tel: 01223 348 206

 

Nursing staff:

Jennifer Whisken: Lead Allergy Nurse Specialist

 

Louise Lydon: Allergy Nurse Specialist

 

Annie Bullock: Allergy Sister

 

Sarah Harrison: Allergy Nurse

 

Tel: 01223 348 112

 

 

 

 

 

 

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