Homerton: Medical Day Unit (MDU)

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Medical Day Unit (MDU)

The Medical Day Unit (MDU) is a self-contained unit that has been tailored to accommodate patients that require medical treatment/investigations on a day stay basis and who will then be discharged home or admitted to a ward.

Each patient will be cared for by a team of nurses who will be responsible for their care on admission and where possible on future admissions. The nurses will have extended practitioner skills that will enhance and contribute to a high standard of care for all patients.

Services available

sickle cell drop-in centre
blood transfusions
platelet transfusions
venesection
hydroxycarbamide monitoring
immunoglobulin infusions
bone marrow aspiration/biopsy
liver biopsy
CT guided biopsy
elective DC cardioversions
beta blocker trials
sacral epidural injections
prostacyclin infusions
pamidronate infusions
cyclophosphamide infusions
dynamic endocrine tests
blood pressure monitoring
initial prophylactic treatment for Deep Vein Thrombosis and pulmonary embolism
partial exchange blood transfusion
methotrexate injection
joint injection
food and drug allergy challenge.

The MDU mainly sees planned admissions, but can facilitate drop-in patients from haematology, such as anticoagulant patients with high/low INRs for enoxaparin/vitamin K injections.

Sickle cell patients can also drop-in without prior notice; however, we ask them to notify the unit before arrival in order to ensure that they can be accommodated safely. The unit can accommodate a maximum of five drop-in sickle cell patients who are treated actively with opiates, dependent on other patients in the unit.

Our opening hours are 9am to 5pm, Monday to Friday excluding Bank Holidays