Contact Details

To contact the Darent Valley Hospital Physiotherapy department please telephone:

01322 428100 ext 8588 or for Hydrotherapy ext 8590.

The physiotherapy service provides care at Darent Valley Hospital and Queen Mary’s Hospital (Sidcup).

Stuart Waterman (Physiotherapy Manager) email: stuartwaterman@nhs.net

Karen Nadin (MSK Service Lead Physiotherapist): k.nadin@nhs.net

Telephone: 01322 428100 ext 8586

If you feel that you are suffering from a complaint that could benefit from physiotherapy, you are now able to make a direct referral to the department at Darent Valley Hospital. This offers patients greater choice and faster access to hospital services without the need to visit the GP. 

For further information please visit the self-referral information.

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Physiotherapy is the fourth largest healthcare profession in the world. It is a clinical specialty that assesses and treats problems with movement, dysfunction and pain. These can arise from musculoskeletal, neurological, respiratory and chronic disability conditions, or from mental illness and intellectual impairment.

The physiotherapy department provides a service to several different areas and specialities, including:

  1. Intensive Care and Acute Medical/Surgical Physiotherapy
  2. Orthopaedic elective and trauma Physiotherapy
  3. Neurological Rehabilitation
  4. Respiratory Outpatient Physiotherapy
  5. Hospital at Home Team 
  6. Integrated Discharge Team 
  7. Musculoskeletal Outpatient Physiotherapy 
  8. Hydrotherapy
  9. Women’s and Men’s Health Outpatient Physiotherapy
  10. Elderly Care / Geriatric Medicine Physiotherapy
  11. Macmillan Cancer Physiotherapy Pathway
  12. Outpatient Paediatric Physiotherapy
  13. Vestibular Physiotherapy
  14. Chronic Pain / Persistent Pain Physiotherapy
  15. Advanced Practice Physiotherapy (Orthopaedic Triage Service)