Consultant Dr Mark Vanderpump explains his endocrinology services

Dr Vanderpump

The body is a marvellous machine but it’s also a complicated one and when it stops working smoothly it can have a huge effect on your life. In my patients this often presents itself in an underactive or overactive thyroid in Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes and in Polycystic Ovary Syndrome.

So, can’t remember the last time you felt well?
Feeling worried about getting your condition under control?
Confused about the conflicting advice?

As a central London-based endocrinologist I provide expert help for people struggling with many and varied endocrine disorders.

My job is to help diagnose the exact problem, restore your health and assist you to contend with related challenges you may face on a daily basis

I’m honoured to be a 2021 Top Doctors Award Winner, which is the second occasion I have received the reward. This is a recognition of the best medical specialists as nominated by their peers for their expertise, experience and clinical abilities, and acknowledges the time, care and attention given to every patient.

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The effects of thyroid homones on the skeleton

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Vitamin D deficiency and diabetes – a recent study

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About Hypogonadism and those low testosterone levels

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How replacement Thyroxine came about

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Can I eat fruit if I’m trying to lose weight

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The importance of maintaining good levels of Iodine

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Could you have Hypothyroidism?

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I’m on Levothyroxine for an underactive thyroid but I still don’t feel well

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Management of primary hypothyroidism: statement by the British Thyroid Association Executive Committee

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Should all pregnant women be screened for gestational diabetes?

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Do I have a goitre?

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What time should I take my Levothyroxine?

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Osteoporosis treatment and its current challenges

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About Graves Orbitopathy

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Hypocalcaemia – description, symptoms, causes and treatment

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How to keep insulin levels down for the ideal PCOS diet

Because young women with PCOS often have higher levels of insulin in their blood, it can be tricky avoiding weight...

Thyroid problems and trying to conceive

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What’s the difference between Type 1 diabetes and Type 2 diabetes

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I would like to thank you very sincerely for all the help and support, particularly when I was very ill but also importantly since. You gave me the confidence that I could lead a normal life and just live with the disease without being ruled by it. It works!

19. May, 2025.

Once again most warm thanks from my husband and myself to Dr Vanderpump. He is doing so much to make our situation much more acceptable.

19. May, 2025.

I've always seen Dr Vanderpump and he was brilliant. I trusted him completely. He always treated me like a person and I felt like he cared. He was really calm, patient, took time explain things and looked at me in the context of other conditions and things happening in life etc. He cared - made sure I got the best care and referrals to wider areas .I know he battled more widely behind the scenes at the hospital too, taking on the hospital bureaucracy. These are special qualities and they're not 'standard'. I really appreciate the time he took and all the help he gave over the years. To have a consultant like that when you've got a condition that you have to deal with everyday, everything impacts on it and it's never going to go away is a big thing. (And yes, he even made me laugh)

19. May, 2025.

Thank you for acting swiftly and adding (name) to your List last Friday. In feel you are a "silver lining" in what turned out to be a bit of a mess. It is good to see (name) responding to your treatment and feeling "more human" I am getting my son back.

19. May, 2025.

A huge thank you for all the help and support Dr Vanderpump has given me. The impact of the diagnosis and reviewing the person as a whole, has made a great significance to my daily life and will continue to do so with the new course of treatment.

19. May, 2025.

Conscientious, pleasant professional manner, with an appropriate sense of humour

19. May, 2025.

Dr Vanderpump made me feel very safe and less anxious about my health and what he felt was the problem

19. May, 2025.

Very reassuring and precise with the diagnosis and treatment. Between consultations secretary was always there to help and give information - very important

19. May, 2025.

Dr Vanderpump is the only doctor I have seen in the last 3 years of illness who cared enough to carry out diagnostic tests to reach a diagnosis. An excellent Doctor

19. May, 2025.

Dr Vanderpump is the ONLY endocrinologist in London who both lives, and practices medicine in this century. He is an extremely caring, considerate and thoughtful man who easily correlates the clinical presentation of a patient, along with treating them like an actual human being. He instinctively understands complex problems, and is well researched about innovative medicine. I had atrocious experiences with top endocrinologists before seeing him, which made me unable to trust doctors at all, but Dr Vanderpump helped restore my faith in the medical profession. You are in very safe hands

19. May, 2025.

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