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Gastroenterology and nutrition service

Treating children with conditions affecting the bowel and pancreas

We see children with conditions affecting the stomach, bowel and organs like the pancreas.

Our team of specialist doctors, surgeons, dietitians, nurses and pharmacists looks after children in hospital and as outpatients with conditions including:

  • coeliac disease and food allergies
  • inflammatory bowel disease (such as crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis)
  • early-onset autoimmune gastrointestinal inflammatory disorders
  • functional gastrointestinal disorders
  • gastrointestinal motility disorders
  • chronic gastrointestinal symptoms such as diarrhoea or vomiting
  • constipation
  • intestinal bleeding
  • gastro-oesophageal reflux disease
  • feeding difficulties and poor weight gain
  • intestinal failure and short gut syndrome
  • pancreatic disorders

We carry out a wide range of tests to diagnose conditions, including using cameras and camera pills to examine the bowel.

We run a specialist clinic for children with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and bowel motility issues. We also run a joint gastroenterology and allergy clinic.

As part of a specialist centre, we also look after children with liver conditions.

Network clinics

We run clinics at other hospitals to help children get specialist care closer to home.

Contacts

Appointment queries

Phone: 020 7188 4000

Email:

How to find us

Clinics

We hold our clinics in:

Otter outpatients
Level 2, Block B
South Wing,
St Thomas’ Hospital
Westminster Bridge Road
London SE1 7EH

Operations

Your opertation might be scheduled to take place in the Children's Day Treatment Centre. If this is the case, it will say so in your admissions letter. Find out more about your child's visit to our children's day surgery unit.