Amethyst: Queen Square (GammaKnife) Radiosurgery Centre

What makes this medical centre first class

The Queen Square (Gamma Knife) Radiosurgery Centre is one of two (alongside the Thornbury Radiosurgery Centre in Sheffield) highly specialised and exceptionally regarded National Centres of Excellence in the UK when it comes to offering patients Gamma Knife surgery. The clinic was established in 2012 and officially joined the Amethyst Group in 2020. 

Led by revered consultant neurosurgeon, Mr Neil Kitchen, the Queen Square Gamma Knife Radiosurgery Centre offers private and international patients treatment services for conditions such as secondary metastatic brain tumours, trigeminal neuralgia, cavernoma, arteriovenous malformation, pituitary tumours, and various skull-based tumours including meningioma, acoustic neuroma / vestibular schwanomma. 

Notably, the Queen Square Gamma Knife Radiosurgery Centre also offers a paediatric radiosurgery service, in collaboration with the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children. The clinic prides itself on providing patients with life-saving and life-extending treatment options under the expert care of leading neurosurgeons.

Clinic coverage 2024

Coverage of the clinic's gamma knife unit, which was successfully updated in 2024, was featured in various online publications including the Health Estate Journal, IHEEM and Oncology News Today. You can find this story covered in the Health Estate Journal, here: 

https://www.healthestatejournal.com/story/44665/gamma-knife-unit-successfully-upgraded-at-queen-square

Consultant coverage 2022 - 2023

Mr Neil Kitchen 

Looking ahead for Gamma Knife

• mHealth Journal: https://thejournalofmhealth.com/looking-ahead-for-gamma-knife/ 
• Clinical Services Journal: https://thejournalofmhealth.com/looking-ahead-for-gamma-knife/ 

Ms Mary Murphy

• Gamma Knife treatment for AVMs
• Healthcare Global: https://healthcare-digital.com/hospitals/gamma-knife-hospital-treatment-for-cerebral-avms-explained
• Introducing SRS to medical education
  • Irish Medical Times: https://www.imt.ie/features-opinion/broadening-neuro-training-for-the-next-generation-of-medical-professionals-14-06-2023/
  • Irish Medical Journal: https://imj.ie/introducing-stereotactic-radiosurgery-systems-into-medical-education-and-the-wider-medical-community/

Mr Patrick Grover

• Importance of hearing tests
  • The Carer: https://issuu.com/thecarer/docs/the_carer_digital_issue_157/14
  • Sixty Plus Surfers: Body Maintenance - Sixtyplusurfers
• Skull base tumours
  • Hospital Healthcare Europe: How modern methods of radiosurgery transform treatments for skull base brain tumours - Hospital Healthcare Europe

Healthcare Global: Modern methods of radiosurgery are transforming brain tumour | Healthcare Digital (healthcare-digital.com)

Miss Anouck Borg

• The modern management of brain metastases