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Hospital & Location
The Hospital serves long and short term travellers, immigrants and refugee populations. It also provides the clinical infectious disease service for UCL Hospitals NHS Trust and houses the National Network for Travel Medicine.
The Hospital has a specialist staff of thirteen consultants who specialise in many different aspects of tropical medicine, which include, parasitology, malaria, leprosy, ophthalmology, dermatology,
gut-infections and paediatrics. The Hospital accepts direct referrals from general practitioners or
referrals and transfers from other hospitals, the Hospital also has an emergency self referral service for certain conditions.
(see emergency admissions)
The Hospital provides:
- Acute Critical Care
- 24 hr Emergency Service
- Advanced Treatment & Management of Tropical and Travel Related Diseases
- Advanced Inpatient & Outpatient Facilities
- Pre & Post Tropical Travel Screening
- GP Referral Service
- Specialist Clinical Parasitology Dept.
- 24 hr Advanced Diagnostic & Testing Facilities in Tropical, Travel and Infectious Diseases
- UK Reference Centre for Travel Medicine
The Hospital is unable to give specific advice to members of the general public over the telephone or via the web-site. Health Care Professionals with requests for emergency admissions or referrals should contact the Hospital on 0845 155 5000 and ask for the Duty Doctor on Bleep 5845
The Hospital for Tropical Diseases ( H T D ) is a member of the University College London Hospitals, NHS Trust, other Hospitals in the group are:
- The Eastman Dental Hospital
- The Middlesex Hospital
- The National Hospital for Neurology & Neurosurgery
- The United Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital & Hospital for Women, Soho.
- University College Hospital
- The Heart Hospital
The Hospital for Tropical Diseases is located at:
Mortimer Market
Capper Street
off Tottenham Court Road,
London WC1E 6AU
Telephone: 0845 155 5000 or 020 7387 4411
Fax: 020 7388 7645
In-Patient facilities are located at
T8 - UCLH, 235 Euston Road,
London, NW1 2BU
Traveling by public Transport
The Hospital is conveniently located between Tottenham Court Road and Gower street which run North to South on either side of the Hospital for Tropical Diseases and the Euston Road which runs East to West on the northern side of the Hospital.
By Bus
Nos. 10, 24, 29, 73 and 134 all run along Tottenham Court Road
(going north) and Gower Street (going south)
Nos. 27, 135 and 253 all run along Hampstead Road towards Warren Street and Euston Square tube stations.
Nos. 18, 27 and 30 run along Euston Road towards Warren Street and Euston Square tube stations.
By Tube and Rail
The nearest underground tube stations are;
Euston Square, Euston Station, Warren Street, Goodge Street.
The nearest mainline stations are: Euston, Kings Cross and St Pancras.
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