Sleep medicine services

We care for children and young people, from newborns to adolescents, with a wide variety of sleep problems.

Our service was established in 2000 and is one of the few comprehensive children's sleep centres in the UK.

What we do

We see more than 3,000 children each year in our clinics and laboratories.

As part of the Guy's and St Thomas' Lifespan Sleep Group, we can make sure young people move seamlessly to our adult sleep medicine services when they turn 16.

We provide clinical evaluation, diagnosis and management of children with all forms of sleep disorders. Sleep disorders treated by our staff include:

  • narcolepsy
  • circadian rhythm disorders
  • parasomnias
  • sleep-disordered breathing
  • sleep apnoea
  • nightmares
  • insomnia.

Find out more about the conditions we treat.

The centre is one of the busiest in the UK, providing a complete range of sleep evaluations, from simple diagnostics to complex sleep studies.

Our 5-bed facility and home testing facilities allow us to evaluate patients with any type of sleep disorder, including complex sleep and seizure disorders.

We also work closely with our colleagues in respiratory medicine to support the children's long-term ventilation service.

Our team

We have a strong multidisciplinary team (a team made up of lots of different health professionals), including:

  • sleep consultants
  • respiratory consultants
  • neurophysiologists
  • sleep physiologists
  • sleep psychologists
  • sleep health visitors

We also work with colleagues from:

For more information, see our team page.

Contacts

Outpatient appointment enquiries

Phone: 020 7188 4000

Email: paediatricappointmentsneurology@gstt.nhs.uk

General enquiries (not relating to outpatient appointments)

Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm

Sleep studies (enquiries relating to appointments for diagnostic sleep studies which have already been discussed)

Phone: 020 7188 3427

Monday to Friday, 8am to 4pm

For referral contacts, please see our referrals page.

How to find us

For overnight sleep studies, daytime walk-in clinics and lung function tests.

Children's sleep and respiratory centre
1st floor, staircase D, South Wing
St Thomas' Hospital
Westminster Bridge Road
London SE1 7EH

This department is only accessible via lift/staircase D.

Map of First Floor, South Wing, St Thomas' Hospital

Our sleep team is also based in our Snow Leopard ward:

Second floor, staircase D, South Wing 
St Thomas' Hospital 
Westminster Bridge Road
London SE1 7EH

Map of Second Floor, South Wing, St Thomas' Hospital

For sleep outpatient clinics.

Children’s Neurosciences Centre (Newcomen Centre)
1st floor, staircase B, South Wing
St Thomas' Hospital
Westminster Bridge Road
London SE1 7EH

This department is only accessible via lift/staircase B.

Map of First Floor, South Wing, St Thomas' Hospital