Herts Valleys Enhanced Community ENT Service
Overview
This Enhanced Community Ear, Nose and Throat service provides care for patients registered with a GP in the Dacorum, St Albans & Harpenden, Watford & Three Rivers and Hertsmere localities, under a contract with Herts and West Essex Integrated Care Board.
We provide patients and GPs with specialist advice and treatment for a range of ENT conditions. Our specialist ENT doctors and their multi-disciplinary team aim to diagnose your condition, arrange any investigations necessary and provide treatment to resolve or manage your symptoms. In house Audiology/ hearing tests is provided as part our clinics.
Your referral
We provide a single point of access for all ENT referrals and will ensure that you are seen in the right place, by the right clinician at the right time:
- You will be referred by your Herts Valleys GP
- Your referral will be reviewed by an ENT specialist who will decide where it is most appropriate for you to be seen
- In some cases, we will provide your GP with a treatment plan so that they can treat your condition in your practice
- If you require hospital treatment, our administration team will organise an appointment for you at your preferred choice of hospital
- If it is most appropriate for you to be seen within the Enhanced Community ENT Service, a member of the administration team will call you to arrange an appointment. If you would benefit from having an hearing test before your ENT appointment, you will be offered an Audiology appointment within our service, where possible on the same day as your ENT appointment.
Your appointment
Once your referral has been reviewed by our qualified ENT specialists as suitable for appointment within the Community service, our friendly administration team will contact you to offer you an appointment in one of our 4 local clinic locations.
On the day you will be collected from the waiting room by one of our dedicated Health Care Assistants who will guide you to the clinic room where your ENT specialist will greet you.
Our One stop clinics aim to ensure that everything you need can be completed in the first appointment. This includes:
- Full consultation
- Procedures if required
- Prescribing medication
- Self-management advice to support you at home
- Information leaflets for you to take home
We are only able to offer a set number of hearing tests per day so in some cases we may arrange an alternative appointment for you have a hearing test.
Procedure
Our qualified clinicians are able to complete a wide range of non surgical procedures as part of your appointment. You do not need to do anything different on the day of your appointment and none of the procedures we carry out will require general anaesthetic or sedation.
Your clinician will fully explain the procedure to you during your appointment and provide you with information to take home with you if needed.
In some cases, our clinicians may offer you local anaesthetic prior to the procedure however this is usually not needed.
Following your ENT procedure you will usually be able to carry on your day as you normally would.
Clinicians
Our ENT Clinical Team:
- Sonna Ifeacho (ENT Consultant and Clinical Lead)
- Olakunle Ajayi (ENT Consultant)
- Saumabha Mandal (ENT Consultant)
- Mr Konstantinos Ballas (ENT Consultant)
- Mrs Eirini Lentari (ENT Consultant)
- Dr Sayeeda Ahmad (ENT GPwSI)
- Wesley Roberts (Audiologist)
- Mr Emmanual Aneke (Associate Specialist)
- Mr Gaurav Kansal (Associate Specialist)
- Mr Omer Khalid (Associate Specialist)
- Dr Divyan Sankaran (ENT GPwER)
- Ms Nisha Neelambaran (Associate Specialist)
- Mr Andre Banik (ENT Consultant)
- Charlton Barnachea (Audiologist)
Contact us
By email: hertsvalleys.ent@nhs.net
By telephone: 020 8683 6734
By post: Communitas Clinics, Sunley House, 4 Bedford Park, Croydon, CR0 2AP
Clinic Locations
You will be offered an appointment at one of our four clinic locations across West Hertfordshire: