Mr Hamid Daya

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About

Hamid Daya is a Consultant ENT Surgeon with a specialist interest in Paediatric ENT currently practicing at St. George’s Hospital, London where he is the Lead for Paediatric ENT. He is honoured to have been recognised as one of the top private specialists by the Tatler magazine 2025 (https://www.tatler.com/article/doctors-guide-paediatricians.)

Hamid has been in practice since 2000, during which time he developed the concept of delivering family focussed private Paediatric ENT care under the framework “ent4kids” of which he is Medical Director.

Personal website: https://www.ent4kids.co.uk/hamid-daya

Hamid qualified from the Universities of St. Andrews and Manchester receiving his medical degree in 1988. He became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1993 and completed postgraduate training in Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery in London in 1998. During his training he became fascinated by the field of Paediatric ENT completing his training with a two year Fellowship in Paediatric ENT at the world renowned Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada.

He has a particular interest in middle ear and neck disease. In the NHS at St Georges he contributes to Multidisciplinary Teams in Paediatric Airway, Lymphatic and vascular malformations and The Royal Marsden Paediatric Soft tissue Tumour group. He also works closely with the world leading Foetal Medicine Team at St George’s, where along with his Paediatric ENT colleagues he provides ENT expertise and support for babies diagnosed antenatally with Head and Neck malformations, some of which may need delivery by the EXIT procedure.

He also sees adult patients with General ENT conditions including ear infections, tonsillitis, sinusitis, sore throats and hearing loss.

In addition to his professional career as an ENT Surgeon, Hamid has a particular interest in the promotion of ENT care in the developing world and has travelled to many different countries including Ghana, Tanzania and Cambodia on research and surgical trips.

He has served on the on the Board of Directors for “Sound Seekers”, a charity with a mission to improve the lives of the hearing impaired in developing countries. Hamid also provides specialist ENT support to the Chain of Hope charity for children with complex cardiac conditions who also have ENT problems.

Special interests

Conditions treated:

Paediatric ENT; Childrens ENT;

Hearing loss
glue ear
grommet insertion
ear infections
perforated ear drum
tympanoplasty
cholesteatoma
mastoid surgery
prominent ears
pinnaplasty
breathing problems
snoring
adenoids
tonsils
coblation tonsillotomy
stridor
neck lumps and sinuses
foreign body nose and ear
Paediatric voice disorders
ear microsuction

Adult ENT

outer ear infections
icrosuction
tonsillitis
sinusitis
breathing difficulty
septal deviation
lump in the throat
ear microsuction
endoscopy of the upper airway and throat

His clinics at Parkside Hospital are supported by a Clinical Audiologist, Tayla Heselton who provides expertise in diagnostic hearing tests, customised swim and noise protection plugs, soft band hearing aids, hearing aids and the Epley maneuvre.

Personal interests

A keen squash player, windsurfer and cyclist, Hamid also loves to cook and enjoy time with his family

Treatments and tests offered by Mr Hamid Daya at Nuffield Health

Functional endoscopic sinus surgery (FESS)
Adult audiology hearing aid provision
Hearing test
Grommet insertion

Locations Mr Hamid Daya works with

Parkside

53 Parkside, Wimbledon, London, SW19 5NX
020 8971 8000

CQC

Overall rating
Good

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Related experience

Research

2000 / 04 / 01
Use of a modified stethoscope to assess paediatric nasal airflow in suspected choanal atresia, nasal stents or nasopharyngeal airways
Clinical Otolaryngology

2023 / 12 / 01
Monozygotic twins and cholesteatomas: nature or nuture?
European Archives oof Otolaryngology

2020 / 05 / 26
An unexpected diagnosis causing a neck lump and fevers
European Annals of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery

2017 / 05 / 01
Vocal Cord Palsy in Children With Cancer: A 10-Year Analysis of UK Pediatric Intensive Care Admissions
Journal Paediatric Haematology and Oncology

2013 / 12 / 27
Management of third branchial pouch anomalies - an evolution of a minimally invasive technique
International Journal of Paediatric Otorhinolaryngology

2011 / 11 / 25
Customised ear moulds: a viable alternative to cosmetic ear surgery
Archives of Diseases in Childhood

2010 / 05 / 01
Closed rhinoplasty approach for excision of nasal dermoids
Journal of Laryngology and Otology

2010 / 01 / 02
Paediatric eosinophilic oesophagitis presenting to the otolaryngologist
Journal of Laryngology and Otology

2009 / 07 / 09
Cervicofacial nontuberculous mycobacterium lymphadenitis in children: is surgery always necessary?
International Journal of Paediatric Otolaryngology

2006 / 09 / 01
Antenatal carbimazole and choanal atresia: a new embryopathy
Archives of Otolaryngology

2006 / 12 / 11
Audit of the multidisciplinary management of orbital infection secondary to sinusitis
Journal of Evaluation of Clinical Practice

2005 / 05 / 31
Aneurysmal bone cyst of the spine
Journal of Laryngology and Otology

2005 / 04 / 01
Ectopic thymus presenting as a subglottic mass: diagnostic and management dilemmas
International Journal of Paediatric Otolaryngology

2005 / 01 / 01
Retropharyngeal and parapharyngeal infections in children: the Toronto experience
International Journal of Paediatric Otolaryngology

2004 / 12 / 01
Solitary infantile myofibroma compromising the airway
International Journal of Paediatric Otolaryngology

2003 / 09 / 01
Visibility of puncture sites after external osteotomy in rhinoplastic surgery
Archives of Facial Plastic Surgery

2003 / 01 / 01
Nontuberculous mycobacterial cervical adenitis: a ten-year retrospective review -
Laryngoscope

2003 / 12 / 02
Microbiologic findings and risk factors for antimicrobial resistance at myringotomy for tympanostomy tube placement--a prospective study of 601 children in Toronto
International Journal or Paediatric Otolaryngology

2002 / 10 / 02
Nasal nitric oxide in children: a novel measurement technique and normal values -
Laryngoscope

2000 / 06 / 03
[Surgical techniques and complications of pediatric cochlear implantation]
Schweiz Med Wochenschr

2000 / 12 / 01
Factors contributing to limited open-set speech perception in children who use a cochlear implant
International Journal of Paediatric Otolaryngology

2000 / 10 / 10
Surgical outcome after paediatric cochlear implantation: diminution of complications with the evolution of new surgical techniques
Journal of Otolaryngology

2000 / 08 / 09
Changes in educational placement and speech perception ability after cochlear implantation in children
Journal of Otolaryngology

2000 / 04 / 04
Pediatric rhabdomyosarcoma of the head and neck: is there a place for surgical management?
Archives of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery

2000 / 03 / 04
Hypoxia depresses nitric oxide output in the human nasal airways
Laryngoscope

2000 / 01 / 05
Pediatric vocal fold paralysis: a long-term retrospective study
Archives of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery

1999 / 08 / 05
The role of a graded profile analysis in determining candidacy and outcome for cochlear implantation in children
International Journal of Paediatric Otolaryngology

1997 / 05 / 06
Assessment of cochlear damage after pneumococcal meningitis using otoacoustic emissions
Transcripts Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

1996 / 12 / 21
Otoacoustic emissions: assessment of hearing after tympanostomy tube insertion -
Clinical Otolaryngology

1996 / 09 / 07
Sinusitis, the orbit and visual complications
British Journal of Hospital Medicine

1996 / 04 / 10
Vocal fold palsy after use of the laryngeal mask airway
Journal of Laryngology and Otology

1993 / 12 / 12
Oesophageal perforation: an unusual complication of a hypoglycaemic episode -
Archives of Emergency Medicine

1993 / 07 / 09
Recurrent laryngeal papillomatosis: a case of florid papillomatosis following a remission of 30 years
Journal of Laryngology and Otology

1990 / 11 / 12
Microdochectomy for discharge from a single lactiferous duct
British Journal of Surgery

Memberships

ENT UK
Royal College of Surgeons
British association of Paediatric Otolaryngologists
European Society of Paediatric Otolaryngologists

Insurers Mr Hamid Daya works with

Mr Hamid Daya works with the following private medical insurance providers:

Aviva Health
AXA Health
Bupa
Cigna
Freedom Health
Healix
Simplyhealth
Vitality Health (Pru Health)
WPA

Declaration

Mr Hamid Daya does not hold a share or financial interest in this hospital, another Nuffield Health hospital or the company.

Mr Hamid Daya does not have a share or financial interest in equipment used at this hospital or another Nuffield Health hospital.

Mr Hamid Daya does not hold any paid advisory role(s) at this hospital or on behalf of Nuffield Health.