The Rheumatology Department provides investigations, diagnostics and the ongoing care of patients with arthritis and other musculoskeletal conditions. We specialise in inflammatory disorders affecting joints, bones, muscles and soft tissues, inflammatory arthritis, other systemic auto-immune disorders and vasculitis.
The service is consultant-led and is staffed by a multi-disciplinary team that provides a high quality, patient focused specialist service to patients with rheumatic diseases.
The team provide both inpatient hospital care at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital and Aintree University Hospital, and outpatient clinics at Aintree University Hospital and Broadgreen Hospital, with access to the Medical Day Care Unit (MDCU) at each site to deliver infusions.
Our team provide general rheumatology services and specialist outpatient clinics including:
- Scleroderma service
- Adult myositis service
- Lupus/Connective tissue disease clinic
- Vasculitis clinics
- Early arthritis clinics
- Ankylosing spondylitis clinic
- Rheumatology/pregnancy combined clinic
- Ultrasound
- Young adult rheumatology/transition
- Nurse-led clinics for patient education, support and advice and for monitoring patients on biologic therapies
- Behçet’s Syndrome Centre of Excellence.
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GP Referrals
We accept referrals from General Practitioners (GP) and other health professionals. Referrals should be made using the national e-Referral Service. We recommend General Practitioners to use the Advice and Guidance electronic system before referral, this is monitored daily by our consultants. Advice and Guidance and e-Referrals should be directed to the specific sites, Broadgreen or Aintree.
Tertiary referrals
Referrals from other hospitals via letter or email will be considered if there is a clear need for Specialty care that cannot be delivered locally. Referrals are triaged daily by our consultants and prioritised based on clinical need and information in the referral.
We aim to see patients with early arthritis referrals within three weeks from referral. Urgent referrals will be seen within six weeks, sooner for those deemed more serious. Current waiting times for a routine appointment are six to eight months. If your condition worsens whilst waiting for an appointment, please contact your GP who can discuss your care with our team.
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Aintree University Hospital
Address: Aintree University Hospital
Lower Lane
Fazakerley
Liverpool
L9 7ALFor maps and other information visit our Getting Here page for Aintree University Hospital
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Royal Liverpool University Hospital
Address: Royal Liverpool University Hospital
Prescot Street
Liverpool
Merseyside
L7 8XPFor maps and other information visit our Getting Here page for Royal Liverpool University Hospital
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Broadgreen Hospital
Address: Broadgreen Hospital
Thomas Drive
Liverpool
L14 3LBFor maps and other information visit our Getting Here page for Broadgreen Hospital
- Aintree Rheumatology Telephone Advice Line
- Bosentan Drug Use for Digital Ulcers
- Avacopan 10mg Hard Capsule
- Rituximab
- Sildenafil and Tadalafil Use for Raynauds and Digital Ulcers
- Aintree Behcets Telephone Advice
- Rheumatology Telephone Advice Line
- Transitioning – Alder Hey to Liverpool University Hospitals
- Twice Daily Tacrolimus Drug Use in Connective Tissue Diseases in Secondary Care
- Contraception and Lupus
- Contraception and Rheumatology Conditions
- Clinical Psychology Behcets Centre
- Behcets Syndrome National Centre of Excellence
- Undifferentiated connective tissue disease
- Cyclophosphamide for Non oncology and Auto immune Conditions
Our Rheumatology team is involved in clinical and laboratory-based research. Our patients have the chance to participate in clinical trials and have access to the latest drugs and treatments.
Our service hosts a Behçets’s Syndrome Centre of Excellence, one of only three centres in the country to offer a clinic of this kind.
To find out more about the research this department carries out, please visit our research page.
