The Cardiff Liver Unit offers a number of outpatient services to manage all aspects of liver disease and its complications. In addition to our general liver service we also provide tertiary level services, complex hepatobiliary surgery and pre and post liver transplant care.
Our services are consultant led. They are delivered by consultants, clinical nurse specialists and experienced doctors in specialty training. During your clinic visit you may meet different members of our multidisciplinary team. In addition to our hospital based clinics we also provide, community clinics for viral hepatitis and alcohol and a nurse led telephone helpline service.
Our outpatient department has a phlebotomy service available and there is a pharmacy accessible from the outpatient department. A translator service for those patients where English is not their first language or who are hearing impaired is available.
Some of our clinics have Fibroscan technology available if needed.
Many of our clinics provide teaching and training for doctors and medical students, supervised by a Consultant. Please let a member of staff know if you do not wish to have the medical student present or be seen by a doctor in training.
These clinics see new and follow-up patients with a wide variety of liver and / or biliary diseases.
This clinic sees patients who are post liver transplant or those on the waiting list for liver transplant. We run a joint clinic with Royal Free Hospital every 3 months on a Tuesday PM.
These clinics see patients being assessed and treated for viral hepatitis AND co-infection.
This clinic sees patients recently discharged from the ward to manage medications and any complications since discharge. It facilitates earlier discharge from the ward and prevents early readmissions.
Fibroscan is a technology used to assess the stiffness of the liver, which helps us to assess whether scarring is likely to be present or not. This dedicated clinic sees patients who only need to have a Fibroscan e.g. to monitor patients on Methotrexate.
Currently we offer outreach clinics at our local Prison HMP Cardiff and community drug and alcohol service.
We continue to develop our service and work to implement ways to improve your experience. We have initiated one stop clinics, to allow for rapid assessment and treatment where needed, and to reduce the number of visits made to hospital. We are also working with General Practitioners to streamline the referral service for patients with suspected Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD).
We are keen to gain feedback and suggestions to improve our service and recommend patients joining our Patient Participation Group.
Our clinics are located in Main Outpatient Department of the Main Hospital on the Upper Ground level, as detailed on the appointment letter.