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 Sheffield-based Thornbury Radiosurgery Centre clinic) 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 its patients a dedicated private patient as well as international referral treatment service for conditions such as epilepsy, secondary metastatic brain tumours, trigeminal neuralgia, cavernoma, arteriovenous malformation, pituitary tumours, as well as various skull-based tumours including meningioma, acoustic neuroma, and 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 its ability to provide its 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
  • Family Friendly Working: awaiting publication
• Skull base tumours
  • Clinical Services Journal: awaiting publication – due soon.
  • 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)