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    At Spire St Anthony's Hospital we offer a full range of treatments, tests and scans

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Meet our Consultant Rheumatologists

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  • Professor John Axford

    Consultant Rheumatologist
    DSc, MD, FRCP, FRCPCH

    Specialises in

    • Adult musculoskeletal disease
    • Joint and back pain
    • Autoimmune inflammatory diseases
    • Rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, juvenile idiopathic arthritis

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    Professor John Axford
  • Dr Gail Darlington

    Consultant Rheumatologist
    MB BS, MD (Lond), FRCP

    I qualified in medicine from the University of London, from where I was also awarded an MD for a thesis on lipid and purine metabolism. I am a Consultant Physician and Rheumatologist and a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians.


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    Dr Gail Darlington
  • Dr Oliver Duke

    Consultant in Rheumatology


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  • Dr Vijay Hajela

    Consultant Rheumatologist
    MBBS, BMedSci, FRCP

    I studied medicine at the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, qualifying in 1990. I worked in Newcastle, Sheffield and then in Auckland, New Zealand, before moving to London and the South East of England to complete my training in rheumatology and general inter…


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  • Dr Simon Paul

    Consultant Rheumatologist
    MB BS, BSc, FRCP (UK), MFSEM DipSEM, MRAeS, Dip Av Med, Pg Dip Law

    Specialises in

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    • Joint and spinal disease
    • Regional and widespread pain syndromes
    • Gout
    • Rheumatoid Arthritis and osteoarthritis

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News

Continence and the COVID-19 lockdown

08 July 2020

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CQC maintains Spire St Anthony’s Hospital rating a…

28 April 2020

Sutton-based Spire St Anthony’s Hospital has maintained its ‘Good’ rating, following an inspection by the Care Quality C…

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Prostate cancer screening

13 February 2020

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