The Department of Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgery at Medway NHS Foundation Trust consists of eleven Consultants, six Higher Surgical Trainees, six Trust Grade registrars, eight ‘SHO’ grade doctors, two Trauma Co-ordinators and a Physician Associate. We are supported by a dedicated Orthogeriatric team consisting of two Consultants, a Registrar, three Foundation Year trainees, and a Trust Grade ‘SHO’.

We cover the entire spectrum of Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgery, with a strong emphasis on training. Several of our Consultants are members of the Court of Examiners for the Royal College of Surgeons. We hold daily trauma meetings, trauma lists, inpatient elective lists and day-case lists, as well as clinics. There is a weekly teaching programme for our Registrars and a separate programme for our ‘SHO’ grade doctors. We hold monthly meetings to discuss clinical scenarios, recent papers, and newer techniques. We have recently equipped our Postgraduate department with a state-of-the-art arthroscopy simulation suite. We also conduct regular revision courses for the FRCS (Tr&Orth), and run a Masters degree at Canterbury Christchurch University.

Our Department is also closely involved with undergraduate education. We teach medical students from Kings College London, and will be teaching students from the Kent & Medway Medical School.

Consultants, special interests and other roles

Mr Howard Cottam (Upper limb)

Mr Abhijit Dey (Lower limb) [Surgical Tutor]

Mr Rohit Jain (Lower limb)

Mr Sunil Jain (Lower limb)

Mr Paras Mohanla (Lower limb)

Ms Marion Mueller (Spine)

Dr Will Ogburn (Orthogeriatrics)

Mr Imran Rafiq (Spine)

Mr Srinivas Samsani (Lower limb)

Mr Sajid Shariff (Foot & ankle)

Prof Bijay Singh (Upper limb)

Dr Sanjay Suman (Orthogeriatrics)

Prof Amit Tolat (Upper limb)

General Surgery

There is a wide range of General and Vascular Surgery, including paediatric surgery, breast and oncoplastics and a very well established colorectal and laparoscopic unit. One of the first things you will notice is the friendliness of the department and the Trust.

Much of your learning will occur in an informal manner on ward rounds, in clinics and theatre and particularly when you are working alongside your consultant. Our consultants are strongly committed to training. You will also have the opportunity to be part of the learning of the postgraduate doctors and medical students attached to our service. There are timetabled teaching sessions during the week and attendance at regional training days is supported.

We have a dedicated Surgical Assessment Unit and our on calls are busy, but well supported by specialty trainees and consultants who have no other commitments during these times. As a result, opportunities to operate under direct supervision are plentiful.

Colorectal Surgery

We have a well-established Colorectal unit with experience in minimally invasive surgery (laparoscopic, robotic and trans-anal). Specialist interests within our unit include colorectal malignancies, inflammatory bowel disease, screening and therapeutic endoscopy and pelvic floor disorders. We perform TATME and TAMIS procedures.

Vascular Surgery

The Vascular unit is at present undergoing reconfiguration with the East Kent unit. Ultimately all inpatient services will be located at Kent & Canterbury Hospital although the time frame has not been as yet established. As a first transfer of services no emergency or elective aortic aneurysm surgery is now performed on the Medway site. All other conditions (carotid disease, peripheral arterial disease, thoracic outlet syndrome, diabetic foot conditions and varicose veins) are still treated at Medway either by open or endovascular surgery. The Vascular Unit has three spoke clinics (Maidstone, Gravesend and Sheppey) and accept vascular emergencies (other than aortic aneurysms) from Maidstone Hospital.

Consultants, special interests and other roles

Mr Ibrahim Ahmed - General and Breast Surgery & Lead Clinician for General Surgery

Prof Henk Wegstapel - Colorectal and Laparoscopic Surgery & Lead Clinician for Colorectal Surgery

Mr Will Garrett - Colorectal, Laparoscopic Surgery & Endoscopy and cancer screening lead

Miss Shirley Chan - Colorectal and Paediatric Surgery &Return to Training Lead, KSS School of Surgery

Mr Brian Andrews - General and Vascular Surgery

Mr Pankaj Gandhi - Colorectal and Laparoscopic Surgery

Mr Neil Kukreja - Colorectal and General Surgery & Clinical Director for Emergency Surgery

Miss Caris Grimes - Colorectal and General Surgery & Clinical Governance Lead

Mr Anur Miah - Colorectal and General Surgery

Miss Ginny Bowbrick - Vascular Surgery, Deputy Director of Medical Education, Trust Champion for RTT and LTFT training & Liaison Member Vascular SAC

Mr Waleed Edrees - Vascular Surgery

Mr Mo Mohamed (Locum) - Vascular Surgery

Mr Shafi Sahely - Vascular Surgery

Mr Nabeel Qureshi - Emergency General Surgeon

Mr George Bazoua - Emergency General Surgeon

Other Consultants

Miss Delilah Hassanally - Breast and Oncoplastics

Mr Robin Abel - Paediatric Surgery

Mr Ashish Desai & Mr Niyi Ade-Ajayi - Paediatric Surgery (based at Kings and undertakes sessions at Medway)

The ENT Department is based at Medway NHS Foundation Trust and also provides the outpatient and day case ENT service at Darent Valley Hospital, covering a population of around 680,000 patients in North Kent. It has a full array of subspecialties including diagnostic head and neck oncology, thyroid and parathyroid, otology, rhinology and voice. There are daily operating lists and clinics at the Medway Maritime Hospital, and other clinics in Swale, Gravesend and clinics and day case operating at Darent Valley Hospital. There are close links with the Head and Neck Oncology service in Maidstone and the head and Neck Surgical Service at Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead.

The Department has a strong track record of education for ENT and GP StR’s and FY2’s. There is a daily consultant led ward round and good consultant led support for all clinical activities. There is a weekly teaching session for all postgraduate doctors.

Presently we have two higher specialty trainees, one ENT UK sponsored appointed international fellow (MTI), three GPStR's and four FY2 doctors. The department has seven consultant surgeons (including two permanent locums) covering the special interest areas comprising diagnostic head and neck oncology, thyroid and parathyroid, otology, rhinology and voice.

We have had consistently high quality feedback from trainees and external visits.

Our aim is to provide relevant Consultant-led education to our trainees and give them every opportunity to expand their experience.

Consultants, special interests and other roles

Mr Jeremy Davis - Specialty Tutor & HST AES

Mr Manuel Oyarzabal - Clinical Lead & ESMr

Jerome Lim - ENT Consultant & ES

Miss Shamim Toma - ENT Consultant

Navdeep Upile - ENT Consultant (QVH based)

Combinatore Praveen – Locum ENT Consultant

Ravi Vobilisetty - Locum ENT Consultant

Danielle Carnegie - Service Manager

This is a vibrant urology department consisting of eight consultants at Medway Hospital. It is also a West Kent cancer centre with the availability of Robotic surgery. Three urology consultants from Maidstone and two from Darent Valley hospital also operate on their cancer patients at Medway Urology cancer centre. One specialist registrar from KSS deanery, seven middle grade registrars, four FY2, one FY1 doctor and six urology nurse specialists support this team.

Most of the urology subspecialties are covered including cancer, benign prostate surgery, stones, urinary incontinence and andrology. Every Friday morning is dedicated to the education, starting with the paper ward round which includes discussion about readmissions and complications over the week, journal club, x-ray meeting and cancer MDT. Once a month there is mortality and morbidity meeting where all the complications and deaths are discussed.

There are ample opportunities for the postgraduate doctor teaching and training. Urology postgraduate doctors are encouraged to take part in clinical audits, writing case reports and papers for journals. We also provide teaching for the postgraduate doctors, medical students and nurses.

Consultants

Prof MKM Sheriff - Lead clinician (MFT)

Mr S Masood - (MFT)

Mr H Marsh - (MFT)

Mr T Bhat - (MFT)

Mr I Sheikh - (MFT)

Mr F Ghumman - (MFT)

Mr J Burki - (MFT)

Mr Z Bhat - (MFT)

Mr M Cynk - (MTW)

Mr J Donohue - (MTW)

Mr A Henderson - (MTW)

Prof Madaan - (DVH)

Prof S Sriprasad - (DVH)