My aim is to provide a world class children's ENT service to children and parents in London and beyond
I feel it is vital that consultations take place in an appropriate environment with the child at ease and with parents free to concentrate on decisions.
I offer a conservative approach avoiding surgery if possible. If ENT surgery is necessary I work very closely with an expert paediatric anaesthetist. Please visit these web pages on paediatric ENT problems and their medical and surgical treatment.
We have been seeing BUPA patients for over 28 years!
Mr Albert has patients covered by all the major insurance companies and keeps his fees within their assured guidelines.
We are now offering telephone consultations which many have found helpful. These will be at set times (as a normal consultation) and will use zoom conferencing software which is free and downloadable. My secretary will send an invitation with details.
During the consultation we can discuss current concerns, the likely causes and solutions.
For throat problems many parents are already using their phones to record a view of the tonsils or a video of sleep disturbance
For ear problems I am trialling a USB otoscope for you to get from Amazon and use yourself (with practice)
Some insurance companies such as BUPA will not pay for grommet follow up if this is a routine check up. They will usually pay if there are new concerns about hearing or infections or concerns that the grommet may have extruded.
Routine appointments are important medically and are in line with NHS practice. You may therefore have to pay for these visits.
If you do not want to travel for a face to face visit or can't get an appointment locally, feel free to arrange a remote consultation. here
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We have had a lot of calls from parents worried about the increasing NHS waiting times. This guide is there to explain how we are doing everything we can to support parents and to have absolute transparency about the costs and likely outcomes.
SELF PAY GUIDE here
There are lot of patients with ear infections and glue ear as well as those with recurrent tonsillitis and sleep apnoea. Please arrange a remote or F2F consult to discuss this. Sometimes we try a long course of low dose antibiotics.
Shave Tonsillectomy preserves the nerves and blood vessels with a less painful and really quick recovery. Typically surgery is on a WEDNESDAY and back to school on the next MONDAY. This is only 3 days off school! There is much less significant bleeding so the procedure is now a morning procedure. I have been pioneering the shave technique in the UK over the last 12 years
David Albert is the Senior ENT Surgeon at Great Ormond Street Hospital, London with over 30 years of experience in Paediatric ENT. As the first full time UK paediatric ENT surgeon he more.....
We recently welcomed our 15,000th patient with a fanfare, a toy and a smile.
I was honoured to help run a course and to receive an honorary Fellowship
Mr Albert was awarded Honorary fellowship after a lecture tour on decision making, endoscopic surgery and laryngoscopy.
David Albert championed the needs of paediatric ENT during his Presidency He led a lecture tour with his friend and colleague Seth Pransky as JLO Visiting Professor
David Albert was honoured to meet the then Prime Minister in 10 Downing Street
660 miles cycling to provide vital pulse oximeters for Malawi. My daughter who is now training to be a paediatric surgeon went to Malawi to help train the anaesthetic officers in how to use them
Vanessa, who worked in Malawi is traing to be a paediatric surgeon in London and ran to support Lifebox who send pulse oximeters to Africa Thank you to everyone who supported her. She is now training for her second Marathon
Mr Albert operating on a challenging case in Uganda
Recently I joined my daughter to operate in Malawi. There is only one ENT surgeon in the country!