What the Service Does
The Regional Liver Unit provides inpatient and outpatient care for patients with all aspects of liver disease, including:
- Liver transplantation assessment and follow-up
- Inpatient and outpatient hepatology/ liver disease services
- Alcohol-related liver disease
- Metabolic associated steatosis of the liver (formerly non alcohol related fatty liver disease)
- Primary liver cancer screening programme
- Primary liver cancer treatments
- Viral hepatitis
- Chronic liver failure
- Portal hypertension
- Inherited liver disease
- Auto-immune liver diseases (primary biliary cholangitis [PBC], primary sclerosing cholangitis [PSC] and autoimmune hepatitis [AIH])
- Paediatric transition service in conjunction with RBHSC and QE, Birmingham
We are a formal networked satellite transplant centre for King’s College Hospital, London, providing tertiary hepatology services for all liver disease patients in Northern Ireland.
Who Provides the Service
The Regional Liver Unit service is provided by a team of 8 hepatology consultants, supported by the wider multi-disciplinary team, including specialty registrars, specialty doctors, pharmacists, specialist nurses, dieticians, physiotherapists, healthcare assistants and admin staff. Inpatient care is provided in ward 6D in Royal Victoria Hospital.
Outpatient clinics are provided daily in Level 6 Outpatient Department. Clinics include:
- General hepatology clinics
- Specialist liver transplant clinics
- Viral hepatitis clinic
- Outreach clinics
Ambulatory Service
A wide range of ambulatory services are provided in the Programmed Treatment Unit in the RVH. This includes day case paracentesis (fluid drainage) and liver biopsies.
Our service is supported by the Liver Support Group, a charity made up of volunteer liver patients and their carers providing support for patients with any liver condition across Northern Ireland.
Consultants
Dr Ian Cadden
Dr Johnny Cash
Dr Brooke Layard
Dr Roger McCorry
Dr Neil McDougall
Dr Hannah McDowell
Dr Lisa McNeill
Dr Leanne Stratton
Specialty Doctors
Dr Judith Magill
Secretarial/Admin Support
| Ms Mary Bright | 02896156222 | Dr Layard |
| Mrs Emma Chapman | 02896156291 | Dr McDowell |
| Mrs Teresa Gault | 02896156356 | Dr McNeill |
| Mrs Siobhan Miskelly | 02895041986 | Dr Cash & Dr Stratton |
| Ms Lisa Monaghon | 02895047760 | Dr McCorry |
| Ms Ciara Sullivan | 02895046176 | Dr McDougall & Dr Cadden |
How to Access the Service
Phone Ward 6D on 02896150848
Appointments office – 028 9615 9700
Secretary Contact Numbers – listed above
Location of Service
Inpatient care is provided in ward 6D in Royal Victoria Hospital.
Outpatient clinics are provided daily in Level 6 Outpatient Department, Royal Victoria Hospital.