HIV Services

 

The Bloomsbury Clinic at the Mortimer Market Centre in Central London offers a free and confidential outpatient service for people with HIV.  The service is open-access which means that you do not need a referral from your GP or other health professional.

Detailed information of this clinic's location and opening times can be viewed below.

The Mortimer Market Centre is recognised as one of the UK’s leading Sexual Health and HIV treatment centres. It offers a comprehensive range of HIV services and treatment and its skilled professionals include designated HIV consultants, HIV specialist pharmacists, HIV specialist nurses, health advisers and psychologists.

Bloomsbury Clinic Opening Hours
Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri
0930 - 1730	0900 - 1730 Late Clinic 1730 - 1920 *appt only	1300 - 1630	0900 - 1730	0900 - 1500 Early morning bloods 0815 - 0900

Services

• HIV treatment advice and follow-up including Walk-in Rapid HIV test
• In-house specialist HIV pharmacy
• Designated treatment, advice and support for patients starting or switching Anti-HIV medication (HAART)
• Emergency clinic
• Close collaboration with University College London Hospital (UCLH) to provide a range of specialist clinics such as neurology, renal, oncology, TB, antenatal and a family clinic at Great Ormond Street Hospital
• Other specialist services include a teenage clinic for adolescents living with HIV, known as the TEAM Clinic, dietician, treament for facial lipoatrophy, HIV and hepatitis co-infection clinic
• Inpatient services on ward T8 at UCLH
• Sexual and reproductive health advice including sexual health screens and cervical smears
• Health advisor and Psychology services
• Patient representatives offering advocacy and peer support

Emergency Clinic

If you already attend the Bloomsbury Clinic and have an urgent problem that is HIV related then you can attend the clinic where the duty doctor will be available to assess you.  If you are unsure whether your problem is HIV related or would like some advice, please telephone the nurses during the opening hours shown below on (Tel) 020 3317 5100.

Emergency out-of-hours advice: Outside the clinic opening hours you can get urgent telephone advice via the UCLH switchboard on (Tel) 0845 155 5000.  Please ask for the on-call HIV doctor.  This number is available until 2100 daily.

Emergency Clinic Opening Hours
Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri
0900- 1300	0900 - 1300	1300 - 1500	0900 - 1300	0900 - 1300

Prescriptions

Outpatient prescriptions are dispensed from the pharmacy at Mortimer Market Centre. The opening times are shown below. If you think you will run out of medication before your next appointment then you can request an urgent repeat prescription by calling (Tel) 020 3317 5100. Please ensure you give at least 48 hours' notice.

To contact the pharmacy department Tel 020 3317 5100.

Pharmacy Opening Hours
Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri
0930 -1330 1445 -1700	0930 -1330 1445 -1700	1330 -1700	0930 -1330 1445 -1700	0930 -1500

New Appointments

If you are HIV positive and transferring your care to the Bloomsbury Clinic from another centre then please contact our appointment booking line on (Tel) 020 3317 5100 and ask for a Transfer Nurse Appointment.

If you have been newly diagnosed HIV positive at another centre and have not yet arranged any follow up care with any centre, you can register as a new patient at the Bloomsbury Clinic.

You do not need to be referred to the clinic by a doctor or other healthcare professional.  Health advisors in the male or female sexual health clinics at Mortimer Market Centre will arrange your first appointment with Bloomsbury Clinic.  Please come to Mortimer Market Centre in the first instance and ask to speak to a health advisor, no appointment is necessary.

For further advice, please call the Health Advisor Team on (Tel) 020 3317 5100.

Routine Appointments

If you already attend the Bloomsbury Clinic and wish to make a follow up appointment, please call our booking line on (Tel) 020 3317 5100.  Please state that you are already a patient.  Please let us know if you are unable to attend an appointment.

Contact Bloomsbury Clinic on 020 3317 5100
Patient Representatives		020 3317 5177
Out-of-hours urgent advice (up to 2100 hrs)		0845 155 5000
Inpatient unit at Ward T8		0845 155 5000

Health Professionals

Health Advisors: 020 3317 5111
Secure Fax: 020 3317 5190
E mail: MMC-HIVreferral@nhs.net

 

Your information, Your rights

For information about accessing your health record and your rights concerning personal data, please refer to Your Information, Your Rights leaflet.

 

	Attachment	Description	Size
	Bloomsbury Clinic Handbook for people living with HIV	Bloomsbury Clinic Handbook	1003.29 KB
	TEAM Information for Parents & Carers	Service Information Leaflet	619.79 KB
	Bloomsbury Patient Representatives Annual Report	2010 Annual Report	109.86 KB