The Haemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) Service at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals (STH) offers high quality care for people aged 16 years and up, that are confirmed or suspected of having HLH. We provide multi-disciplinary care for patients with HLH, as both in-patients and out-patients. Our team consists of doctors from Rheumatology, Haematology, Infectious Diseases, Virology and Critical Care.
As part of the UK HLH Network we provide an advisory service for patients, throughout the UK, through our National Advisory Panel – see below for referral information.
We work closely with the other specialist UK centre at University College London Hospitals who provide panel discussion weekly and HLH On call service – see HLH Service | Specialist HLH Care at UCLH London
A GIRFT pathway for HLH was published in 2024 and provides useful information for acute diagnosis and management of HLH here GIRFT leads cross-specialty clinical group to develop best practice pathway for the rare syndrome HLH - Getting It Right First Time - GIRFT
PLEASE NOTE: We do not provide on call advice about HLH – all queries should come to our referral email address; this address is monitored during normal working hours Monday to Friday
If you are a medical professional with a patient you would like the panel advice on, you can refer using the referral proforma below and send this to sth.hlh@nhs.net
The Panel runs on the 2nd and 4th Friday of the month at 4pm.
There is no on call service for HLH - all referrals are by email only and the inbox is monitored during working hours only.
