Contact details

Farnham Road Hospital
Farnham Road
Guildford
GU2 7LX
United Kingdom

Telephone: 01483 443 558

Contact Name

Inpatient Service Manager: Anne Sayed

The Electro Convulsive Therapy (ECT) facility is provided for patients attending from Surrey and NE Hampshire catchment areas, operating twice weekly on Tuesday and Friday mornings.

Service provision is for persons from inpatient areas, day care areas or from their own homes as outpatients. Emergency ECT can be provided at Farnham Road Hospital. 

ECT clinic: 07867 373 032 and ECT.ServiceOA@sabp.nhs.uk

Lead consultant: Raja.Badrakalimuthu@sabp.nhs.uk

How to access this service

Referrals to the ECT Clinic can only be made by a patient's responsible clinician (consultant psychiatrist). You cannot refer yourself directly to this service.

If you would like to discuss whether ECT might be suitable for you, please speak to your psychiatrist or the mental health team supporting you.

ECT is only used to achieve rapid and short-term improvement of severe symptoms after an adequate trial of other treatment options have proven ineffective and/or when the condition is considered to be potentially life-threatening, in individuals with severe depressive illness, catatonia, or a prolonged or severe manic episode.

Because of the nature of the service waiting times are avoided. Treatment can be given in urgent cases within 24 hours notification.

Tuesday and Friday 8am to 12pm

Each person being referred for ECT will have this done by their responsible clinician (consultant psychiatrist). Service provision is for persons from inpatient areas, day care areas or for patients coming from their own homes.