Team contacts

For emergency contact details please go to 'Urgent advice'.

Consultants

Dr Nik Daskas, Lead Diabetes Consultant
Dr Rachel Besser, NPDA and Research Lead
Dr Taffy Makaya
Dr Agnieszka Brandt-Varma
Dr Roy Osgood

Specialty Doctors

Dr Supriyo Basu (on-call consultant)
Dr Rosemary London
Dr Rajat Pratap

You may see a doctor whose name is not on the list. This is because we help to train doctors in our hospitals, and sometimes they join our team for a year of specialist training. Our trainee doctors are always closely supervised by an experienced member of our multidisciplinary team.

Specialist Nurses

Jane Haest

Lead Paediatric Diabetes Specialist Nurse and Operational Lead

Tel: 01865 228737
Mobile: 07990 781232
Email: jane.haest@ouh.nhs.uk

Diana Yardley

Tel: 01865 228793
Mobile: 07866 420055
Email: diana.yardley@ouh.nhs.uk

Catherine Earnshaw-Crofts

Tel: 01865 234584
Mobile: 07733 300237
Email: catherine.earnshaw-crofts@ouh.nhs.uk

Miranda Holdship

Tel: 01865 234584
Mobile: 07917 215296
Email: miranda.holdship@ouh.nhs.uk

Hannah Powell

Tel: 01865 228736
Mobile: 07919 397460
Email: hannah.powell@ouh.nhs.uk

Imogen Stamford

Tel: 01865 225665
Mobile: 07780 227210
Email: imogen.stamford@ouh.nhs.uk

Emily Welz

Tel: 01865 228737
Mobile: 07747 008349
Email: emily.welz@ouh.nhs.uk

Sarah Chapman

Paediatric Diabetes Specialist Nurse Schools

Tel: 01865 28942
Mobile: 07717 730191
Email: sarah.chapman1@ouh.nhs.uk

Nicola Birchmore

Diabetes Educator

Tel: 01865 228737
Email: nicola.birchmore@ouh.nhs.uk

Dietitians

Anne-Marie Frohock

Lead Paediatric Diabetes Dietitian

Tel: 01865 231227
Mobile: 07785 927 038
Email: anne-marie.frohock@ouh.nhs.uk

Sev Gregory-Smith

Tel: 01865 231227
Mobile: 07917 214557
Email: severine.gregory-smith@ouh.nhs.uk

Andrea Young

Tel: 01865 231227
Email: andrea.young@ouh.nhs.uk

Clinical Psychologists

Dr Mary Owen
Dr Kat Damazer

Psychology Secretary

Wendy Wyatt

Tel: 01865 234187

Research Nurses

Kirsten Beadon

Tel: 01865 234149
Email: kirsten.beadon@ouh.nhs.uk

Melanie James

Tel: 01865 234905
Email: melanie.james@ouh.nhs.uk

Alison West

Tel: 01865 234149
Email: alison.west@ouh.nhs.uk

Rebecca Law

Tel: 01865 234905
Email: rebecca.law@ouh.nhs.uk

Administration and support staff

Vicky Dollemore

Nursing Assistant

Diabetes Secretaries

Tel: 01865 231671

Urgent advice

Please carry out a Blood Glucose Test and a Ketone Test and have these available before calling us.

Contacting us in an emergency

In the unlikely event that you are unable to contact us via the numbers below, do not wait, call your GP or 999 in an emergency.

Monday to Friday 9.00am - 5.00pm

Diabetes Nurses' Office: 01865 228737/6

If you are unable to reach a Diabetes Nurse please call OUH Switchboard.

Tel: 0300 304 7777 (automated system)

After recorded information about COVID-19, the system will ask who you wish to speak to.

Ask for the Operator, who will be able to connect you to either:

John Radcliffe Hospital
Bleep Paediatric Endocrinology Registrar, Bleep 1775 (until 5.00pm); or
Horton General Hospital
Bleep 403

Monday to Friday 5.00pm - 9.00pm

Tel: 07823 533466

If no answer, leave a message and we will call you back, or call OUH Switchboard (see above) and ask them to bleep the On-call Paediatric Registrar on 1392.

Monday to Friday 9.00pm - 9.00am

Call OUH Switchboard (see above) and ask them to bleep the On-call Paediatric Registrar on 1392.

Weekends and Bank Holidays 9.00am - 9.00pm