Our Service

Established in 2010, the allergy service provides specialist diagnosis and care to people with severe and complex allergies e.g. food allergy, anaphylaxis and rhinitis. 

We also run a clinical immunology service dedicated to looking after individuals with defects in their immune system and also those with a rare genetic disorder known as hereditary angioedema (HAE). HAE is a rare disorder of the immune system that usually runs in families and results in unpredictable and occasionally serious skin or abdominal swellings.

Defects in immune systems are very rare and usually cause individuals to have severe, persistent, unusual or recurrent infections. Patients are often referred to us by other hospital consultants or by their own GPs for assessment.

Some of our immunodeficiency patients are at increased risk of more severe disease from Covid-19. 

There is good information available on the government website: https://www.gov.uk/coronavirus

If you have been offered a telephone appointment and would rather have a face to face appointment please let us know and we can change it.

Queries about your condition or treatment (we will answer within 2 working days)

Immunology/Allergy Nurse

Angela Cooper, Ann Ivory& Deborah Hughes

 

01782 672504

immunology.nurses@nhs.net

Administrative queries

Immunology/Allergy Secretary

 

Louise Barrow

01782 672594

Queries about appointments

Appointments call centre

 

01782 676676

Our services were rigorously assessed and approved as being of high quality by the Royal College of Physicians (London) through the QPIDS (Quality in Primary Immunodeficiency Services) and IQAS (Improving quality in allergy services) accreditation in 2023. 

Read the ful​l IQAS report or take a look at our IQAS certificate March 2023 and IQAS certificate April 2023 

Read the full QPIDS report

  • To maintain high standards of service delivery and provide allergy and immunology services which are committed to upholding and promoting standards of best practice

  • To put patients at the centre of the service by involving them in their own care and in the running of the service

  • To provide safe care for patients, staff and others who come into contact with the service

Consultants

Dr Sarah Goddard
Dr Lavanya Diwakar

Trainee

Sara Elhadari

Nursing and pharmacy staff

Mrs Angela Cooper (Allergy and Asthma Advanced Nurse Practitioner)
Mrs Deborah Hughes (Allergy and Immunology Advanced Nurse Practitioner)

Mrs Ann Ivory (Allergy and Immunology staff nurse)

Mr Daniel Clarke (Specialist pharmacist prescriber)

 

Type of Clinic

Location

Day

Times

General Allergy clinic

County Hospital Outpatients

Monday

9am -1pm

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Royal Stoke Outpatients Clinic 3

Tuesday

9am -1pm

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Royal Stoke Outpatients Clinic 3

Thursday

9am -1pm

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Fully virtual clinic

Friday

8.30am-12.30pm

Allergy challenge clinic and immunotherapy clinic

Royal Stoke ward 202

Tuesday

9am -1pm

Severe urticaria clinic

Royal Stoke Outpatients Clinic 3

Thursday

1.30pm -5pm

Allergy phone clinic

 

Friday

9am -1pm

Immunodeficiency clinic

Royal Stoke Cancer Centre

Wednesday

8.30am-12.30pm

 

County

1st Monday of the month

9am -1pm

Joint respiratory and immunology clinic

Royal Stoke outpatients

Friday

2pm-5

The department maintains a secure record of all patients undergoing the following treatments and investigations: allergy challenges, immunotherapy, omalizumab for severe urticaria, immunoglobulin replacement and treatment of hereditary angioedema patients.

We offer patients the opportunity to take part in a number of projects including:

  • The national database for immunodeficiency
  • The NIHR Bioresource Study in Rare diseases
  • Other projects e.g. GATA 2 study in Newcastle
  • COVAD vaccine response study in antibody deficiency patients
  • British Immunotherapy audit

Education and training

The department is actively involved in the delivery of educational sessions for GPs and specialists, medical students and the public.