Voice Clinic
The Voice Disorders Unit at University Hospital Lewisham is one of the largest in the country.
Our service is a specialised clinic that deals with all types of voice disorders and their associated symptoms.
The Voice Clinic treats patients from across south-east London, including Lewisham, Greenwich, Bexley and Bromley.
We can accept referrals from across the UK, and occasionally from abroad.
Location
Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT) department, 1st floor Pink Zone, University Hospital Lewisham.
Contact
Tel: 020 8333 3000 ext. 8092 or 3193.
Opening hours
Our clinic runs on Mondays and Wednesdays.
Who we can see
We typically see people who are experiencing changes to their voice due to functional or structural disorders.
Our clinic also specialises in treating professionals who use their voice as part of their work; this includes professional singers, theatre performers, teachers and call centre workers.
We can also see paediatric patients with vocal issues, including professional paediatric performers.
How to get a referral
Referrals are accepted from GPs in primary care, internal referrals from other specialties, and tertiary referrals from other ENT or voice specialists.
Services available
We have a once-weekly voice clinic on Wednesday mornings led by a speech therapist with supervision from an ENT consultant. The service operates in a similar manner to main Voice Clinic and uses the same equipment.
Our speech therapist will make a recording of your voice which will then be reviewed by our ENT Consultant to better understand your condition and confirm a diagnosis. Once this happens we will agree a plan of action for you.
This clinic sees new patients, people attending for follow-up appointments after speech therapy, patients receiving treatment nasoendoscopy and post-operative patients for follow-up reviews.
Treatment options
We may recommend speech therapy and occasionally microsurgery to the larynx (voice box). This will be preceded and followed up by speech therapy sessions.
The combination of speech therapy and surgery, when required, is an essential step towards improve your treatment outcomes.
If you need speech therapy, we will refer you back to your local speech and language therapy department for treatment and your progress will be followed up at the Voice Clinic at regular intervals.
If you require surgery, post-operative speech therapy is provided at University Hospital Lewisham, regardless of where you have been previously treated.