Geriatric Medicine and Elderly Care
Geriatric Medicine and Elderly Care service aimed at the needs of older people, providing specialist services for conditions such as Parkinson’s Disease and more general conditions such as unexplained falls and undefined health deterioration.
We work in partnership with several other departments to provide a multidisciplinary approach across many of our services, with a dedicated Day Rehabilitation Unit on the NGH site and outreach into the Community.
We see and care for patients with:
- Undifferentiated Illness and General Frailty
- Parkinson’s Disease (and Parkinsonian symptoms)
- General Movement Disorders
- Acute Confusion
- Complex Medicines Management
- Stroke and the after-effects
- Falls assessments and investigation
Referral address
Cross city booking office
Referral and Contact Centre,
Medical Outpatients,
Royal Hallamshire Hospital,
Glossop Road,
S10 2JF
Clinic days
Clinics at Northern General Hospital
Outpatients One
Weds all day,
Outpatients Two
Tuesday, Thurs and Friday am.
Various clinics are held in Day Rehabilitation Unit every day.
Clinics at Royal Hallamshire Hospital,
Medical Outpatients, A Floor:
Tuesday am,
Thursday
Friday all day.
Consultants
| Consultants | Special Interest | Hospital Site | Contact Number |
| Dr A Rash | Stroke | NGH | 0114 271 4996 |
| Dr BJ Liddle | Parkinson’s Disease | NGH | 0114 27 14794 |
| Dr CA Austin | Dementia | NGH | 0114 27 14135 |
| Dr DF daCosta | Stroke | NGH | 0114 27 14041 |
| Dr M Jennings | Stroke | NGH/RHH | |
| Dr CE Ruse | COPD | NGH | 0114 27 15712 |
| Dr NC Samaniego | Parkinson’s Disease and Community Geriatrician | RHH | 0114 27 13918 |
| Dr PJ Lawson (Lead Consultant) | Falls, tilt table | NGH |
0114 27 14081 |
| Dr BH Rosario | Stroke | RHH | 0114 27 11768 |
| Dr TW Downes | Falls | NGH/RHH | 0114 27 11591 |
| Dr C Whitehead | Community Geriatrician | RHH | 0114 271 3789 |
| Dr H Elphick | Orthogeriatrics | NGH | 0114 226 6419 |
| Dr S Madan | Orthogeriatrics and Community Geriatrician | NGH | 0114 22 66419 |
| Dr V Clubb | Hospital and Community Geriatrician | NGH | 0114 22 66419 |
| Dr S Skanthan | Stroke | NGH | |
| Dr P May | Orthogeriatrics | NGH | 0114 22 66419 |
For more information about this service contact 0114 266 8744 or 0114 2266314.
