Consultants
We have 14 consultants who provide a 24 hour service. Our consultants are assisted by other more junior doctors called registrars (ST 3-7), specialist trainees (ST 1-3) and Foundation doctors (FY1-2). They also work very closely with the multidisciplinary team of nurses, physiotherapists, pharmacists and other specialists. Consultants will conduct twice daily wards to discuss your or your relatives test results and progress and will make any necessary changes to treatment plans. At Portsmouth we are proud of our reputation for clinical excellence.
Sara has been a consultant on the Intensive Care consultant at QA since 2007. She studied medicine at Southampton University Medical School, and following that completed training in Nephrology, General Medicine and ultimately Intensive Care Medicine. This was done in Wessex, London and Melbourne, Australia. Her particular interests are in Critical Care Nephrology. She is the medical lead for the hospitals Tracheostomy Support Team and works on the Surgical High Care Unit. She is also the departmental lead for electronic drug prescribing and equipment lead.
BMedSci MBBS MRCP FRCA DICM FFICM
Steve is a Consultant in Critical Care and Anaesthetics. He studied Medicine at St. Bartholomews Hospital, London. He completed a medical rotation, obtaining his MRCP, before training in Anaesthetics and Intensive Care Medicine in the Wessex region. He was appointed as a Consultant in 2010. He is the IT Lead and Deputy Faculty Tutor for Intensive Care Medicine Training. His interests include patient and relative experience, training and medical education and use of information technology in medicine. Also practises in Anaesthesia and maintains an active interest in Colorectal Anaesthesia and enhanced recovery.
Started as a Consultant in 2000. Led from an early stage the planning and design of the new Intensive Care Unit and QAH Hospital which opened in 2009. Departmental lead roles for Audit, IT and Governance prior to taking over as Clinical Director in 2010. Main interests include outcomes and quality in Critical Care. Also practises in Anaesthesia and maintains an active interest in Vascular Anaesthesia.
James McNicholas was appointed in 2007 as a Consultant in Anaesthesia and Critical Care, having completed his training in the Wessex region. His interests include paediatric trauma medicine, and the practice of intensive care medicine in the austere environment. James has worked overseas on a number of occasions during his career and holds the Diploma in the Medical Care of Catastrophes. His organisational responsibilities within the department include clinical audit. Portsmouth has supported the RCOA Compendium of clinical audit by providing detailed examples of clinical audit completed in the department.
Helen joined the department in August 2013 as a consultant in critical care and anaesthetics. Having trained at the University of Wales College of Medicine she initially trained in hospital medicine obtaining MRCP before changing to dual training in Anaesthetics and Intensive Care Medicine. Having worked in Paediatric Intensive Care she maintains an interest in the stabilisation of sick children and in the provision of anaesthesia for children. Her other interests are the use of echocardiography in intensive care and training for the multidisciplinary team in management of the deteriorating patient.
MB BCh MSc FRCA FFICM
David was appointed consultant in 2002. He graduated from the University of Wales College of Medicine in 1992 and trained in the South West Peninsula and Australia, obtaining FRCA in 1998 and MSc from Plymouth University in 2002. He has a clinical interest in Toxicology and the management of cardiac arrest survivors. He also practices Anaesthesia. David is the chair of the Trust Formulary group. He is our unit research lead and is the lead investigator for many clinical trials within ICU. He manages our liaison with the University of Portsmouth as associate academic department within the school of health Sciences and Social Work.
Graduated from University of Sheffield Medical School joining the British Army and serving in Falklands, South Georgia, Belize, Middle East, Bosnia and Kosovo. He completed his training in Intensive Care Medicine and Anaesthesia in London and the Midlands developing major interests in medical education, ethics, and sepsis. As well as working as a full time clinician, he has continued to develop his role in education through roles a a programme director, head of school and Associate Dean, until now becoming Director of Education for Portsmouth Hospitals.
Lieutenant Colonel
FRCA DipIMC RCS(Ed) DICM RAMC
Nick is a Consultant in Critical Care and Anaesthetics at QAH, where he works as one of nearly 400 military staff serving in the hospital. He studied medicine at the University of Glasgow before completing his military training and serving overseas as a Medical Officer in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Nick trained in Anaesthetics and Intensive Care Medicine in the Wessex region, during which time he completed a year’s overseas fellowship in trauma anaesthesia in Baltimore, USA. In addition to his clinical work in Critical Care and Anaesthetics, Nick is the Guidelines Lead and Deputy Clinical Governance Lead for the Department of Critical Care.
MB, ChB, DCH. FRCA, PGCertMedEd, FFICM
Matt started as a Consultant in Critical Care and Anaesthesia in 2005. He studied medicine at the University of Bristol. Postgraduate training was completed in the South West region, which included general and neonatal paediatrics, intensive care in Melbourne, Australia, and specialist Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine (ICM) in the Wessex region which included a year at the University of Michigan Hospitals, USA. He maintains a vascular anaesthetic interest. His interests are in medical education, ethics, and patient safety.
He is the Faculty Tutor for ICM training, Wessex Deputy Regional Advisor for ICM training, Trust Clinical Lead for Organ Donation and the Trust’s Lead for Simulation training.
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