Private referrals and appointments

Please call the hospital appointments teams directly for a face-to-face consultation:

Portland Hospital 02073908020

Clinics on Wednesdays and Fridays all day; if needed, a hearing test can be booked for 30 minutes before the main appointment time by calling 02073906573.

Parkside Hospital 02081378431

Clinics on Wednesday afternoons and Thursday afternoons and evenings. Hearing tests can be arranged there and then for children ages four years and older and adults.

Please see the additional information about the clinics below, before making a booking, as the services vary slightly.

Click here to make a private telephone or video consultation

Face-to-face and video consultations

Face-to-face consultations are available in Central London and in Wimbledon. Children and babies can be seen at all of the clinics, with adults at Parkside Hospital only.

The nature of the clinics and the available facilities vary slightly. Please note that hearing tests for young children (aged three and under) are best undertaken at the Portland Hospital by appointment (below) and airway assessments for babies and very young children (with endoscopy in clinic) are most easily undertaken at the Portland Hospital.

All of these clinic appointments are booked directly with the respective hospital’s booking teams:

The Portland Hospital (Friday every week and Wednesday on the second and fourth Wednesday of each month). Please call 02073908020 to make an appointment. Hearing tests can be booked 30 minutes before the main appointment time by calling 02073906573.

Parkside Hospital, Wimbledon (alternate Wednesday afternoons and Thursday afternoons/ evenings). Please call 02081378431 to make an appointment. Hearing tests can be organised at the time of the clinic without booking in advance.

The BUPA Cromwell Hospital, Kensington: Mr Tweedie operates there weekly, but no longer runs a clinic.

Video and telephone consultations are also available in parallel, including in the evenings, please click here for more details.

For all other enquiries, please call Mari Byrne on 02071646447 or email info@danieltweedie.com

Fees

Please click here for a summary of consultation and surgeon/ anaesthetist fees. 

Surgery for self funding patients

For self funding patients, the hospital will make its own charges, and further information is available directly from the business offices via the following email addresses:

BUPA Cromwell Hospital Business Office: businessoffice@cromwellhospital.com or business office.mail@cromwellhospital.com

Portland Hospital Self Pay Team: selfpayTPH@hcahealthcare.co.uk

Please kindly provide the relevant code(s) detailed below, and the administrators will be able to give you a quotation for the hospital’s charges for the surgery: please ask for this on a day case basis (unless you have been recommended for an overnight stay, in which case extra charges will apply).

My anaesthetist and I will also charge separate fees for the surgery and anaesthesia respectively, and these are in addition to the hospital fees.

From 1st January 2023, surgeon and anaesthetist fees have been updated, as outlined here (this applies to booking requests which are made after 1st December 2022).

Codes for surgery

For insured patients, your insurance company will typically ask for surgical procedure codes. The commonest codes are listed below:

F3480 Adenotonsillectomy (removal of the tonsils and adenoids)

F3400 Child tonsillectomy up to the age of 16, without adenoidectomy

F3440 Adult tonsillectomy

E2010 Adenoidectomy (not in conjunction with tonsillectomy)

D1510 Insertion of grommets

D1530 Myringotomy and drainage of middle ear fluid

D0702 Aural toilet (removal of ear wax)

E0412 Reduction of the nasal turbinates

E3520 Microlaryngoscopy

E5180 Bronchoscopy

D1420 Myringoplasty (eardrum repair)

F2620 Division of tongue tie

W2620 Manipulation of fractured nose

Other enquiries

Please call 02071646447 weekdays 0900-1700 to speak to Mari Byrne for other enquiries. You can also email Mari by clicking here. Please note that Mari does not book face to face clinic appointments- these are booked directly with the hospitals.

Please kindly have a GP referral letter available, if possible, but this is not essential.

Telephone and video consultations

To complete telephone or video consultation bookings, please complete the booking form by clicking on the button below:

Booking an audiology appointment at the Portland Hospital

Portland Hospital Audiology Department (for hearing tests) 0207 390 6573. If you would like to book a hearing test in advance for the day of the clinic, please book the main appointment first and then kindly call the audiology department to book a hearing test 30 minutes before the main clinic appointment time.

Fees and excess payments

Please inform your insurer (if applicable) to enable pre-authorisation before any appointment or treatment. Mr Tweedie is registered as a provider for all the major insurance companies and is also "fee assured", as are his anaesthetists. There may be an excess to pay for treatment under particular policies, please check this in advance with your insurer.

Alternatively, patients who are not insured are also most welcome. Please click here for a summary of consultation fees. 

Please direct enquiries for all payments to mail@nightingales-uk.com or 01342316239.

• For all urgent matters and for other queries, you may also send electronic enquiries and referrals via the portal below, and please also email info@danieltweedie.com in parallel

Directions

The Portland Hospital for Women and Children is located in Marylebone in Central London. While no parking is available on site, it has excellent public transport links. Please click here for directions.

Parking advice: if you plan to come to the Portland Hospital by car, please be aware that the hospital itself is just within the TFL congestion charge (£15) and ULEZ charge (£12.50) zones https://tfl.gov.uk/modes/driving/congestion-charge/congestion-charge-zone. However, the A501 (Marylebone Road) which runs East to West and the roads North of this are outside the congestion zone, along with public roads where parking may be available, subject to demand.

Public car parks just to the North (in the Albany Street and Longford Street areas) are small and usually fill up very early in the day.

However, there is Pay and Display parking (£2.40/hour, subject to demand) at the South end of the Outer Circle of Regent’s Park (orange arrow), which is a 6 minute walk along the edge of Regent’s Park to the Portland Hospital (green arrow).

Please allow a full 90 minutes from your appointment time for the consultation, associated tests and any small delays, plus return time back to your car.

Parkside Hospital is a large dedicated Private Hospital for children and adults in Wimbledon. Plenty of free parking is available.  Please click here for directions.

BUPA Cromwell Hospital is situated on the A4 Cromwell Road, approximately five minutes' walk from Earls Court and 10 minutes' walk from Kensington High Street Underground Stations. Please click here for directions. There is no parking onsite, but there is local on street Pay and Display parking and, for longer stays, some of the local hotels offer day-rates for secure parking.

Evelina London Children's Hospital is on the St Thomas' Hospital Site. Waterloo Station and Westminster Underground are about five minutes' walk away.  A downloadable map may be found at http://www.guysandstthomas.nhs.uk/resources/location-maps/st-thomas-map.pdf