Who's Speaking?

I qualified from Aberdeen Medical School in 1981 and spent a period on a GP Vocational Training Scheme prior to pursuing a career in Anaesthesia. During my training I developed a keen interest in the management of postoperative pain and in the use of regional anaesthesia.

Clare Hammond has over 25 years nursing experience with the last 12 years in Day Surgery. She has also presented and published several papers both nationally and internationally on day surgery and related topics.

Mr Harmeet Khaira is a consultant general surgeon with a specialist interest in vascular surgery. He studied pre-clinical medicine at Cambridge University (Emmanuel College) form 1982 to 1985 and clinical medicine at Oxford University (Magdalen College) from 1985 to 1988.

I have been a Senior Lecturer in Anaesthesia at Keele University and Consultant Anaesthetist at the University Hospital of North Staffordshire, Stoke-on-Trent since 1995.

I became President of the British Association of Day Surgery in June 2010. prior to that I have served on the Council of the Association since 2000 and was Editor of the Journal of One-day Surgery from 2004 to 2009.

Joe Rafferty is currently Chief Executive of NHS Central Lancashire. The organisation has an annual commissioning budget of £750M for a resident population of 480,000 people across a mixed geography of 450 sq miles. 

James is the Senior Partner in a Personal Medical Services partnership in Wallasey. He has been in practice on the Wirral since 1989. His practice has won numerous awards for clinical excellence and was in the early waves of fundholding, a first wave PMS plus site, and early adopter of Practice Based Commissioning.

Mr Doug McWhinnie is a Consultant General and Vascular Surgeon based in Milton Keynes. Clinical interests include venous and arterial disease in addition to ambulatory surgery and minimally invasive surgery.

Mark is a Consultant Anaesthetist in Chester, having been originally appointed in 1991. Graduated from Nottingham in 1980, with postgraduate training in Nottingham, Bristol, Sheffield, and New Zealand, he underwent subsequent formal consultant appointment process to take on the role of Director of Day Surgery in Chester in 2000.

Professor Michael (Monty) Mythen completed his UK anaesthesia fellowship (FRCA) in 1990, gained an MD in 1995 and was appointed assistant professor at Duke University Medical Centre, North Carolina, USA before returning to the UK.