How do I know that I will be suitable for surgery?

How long does it take from being referred by my GP to having the operation?

How much weight can I expect to lose, and how quickly?

Will I have loose or sagging skin after I lose weight?

Are there any other side effects?

How much time will I need off work?

How much weight can I expect to lose, and how quickly?

Will I have loose or sagging skin after I lose weight?

What can I do about hair loss?

Do you require me to stop smoking before surgery? How will smoking affect my surgery and post-op time?

How long will I be in Surgery?

Will I be in ICU?

Will I have a private room, or will I share with someone else?

North Bristol NHS Trust is governed by the Trust Board, which consists of the Executive Directors, including the Chief Executive, who are full-time senior staff, together with an independent Chair and Non-Executive Directors who hold part-time positions. :

• The Chair.
• The Chief Executive.
• Executive Directors.
• Non-Executive Directors.

The number of Non-Executive Directors and voting Executive Directors is set by North Bristol NHS Trust’s Establishment Order.

The Executive Directors bring expertise to key areas of the Trust and oversee the day-to-day operation of the organisation, while the Chair and Non-Executive Directors offer skills and experience from a wide variety of roles within the wider community. The Trust Chair has specific duties and responsibilities for the effective leadership of the Board, and creating the conditions necessary for overall board and individual director effectiveness. This includes the duty to lead effective governance at organisational level. NBT’s Chair is also the Chair of University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust, holding a joint role across the two organisations.

The Board's key functions are:

• To set the vision and strategic direction for the Trust, define objectives, and agree plans for the Trust.
• To monitor performance and ensure corrective action is taken where performance needs to be improved.
• To ensure the Trust makes best use of the resources made available to us by the taxpayer.
• To ensure high standards of corporate and quality governance so the services we provide are safe and of a high quality.

More information about the Trust Board, its balance, completeness and appropriateness to the requirements of the trust is included within our Annual Reports and Standing Orders available elsewhere on the website.

GMC Number: 5206763

Year of first qualification: 1996, Hungary

Specialty: Cellular Pathology

Clinical interests: Renal, haematopathology, uropathology

Secretary: Tracy Webb

Telephone number: 0117 414 9838

GMC Number: 4642370

Year of first qualification: 1999, MBBS University of London

Specialty: Medicine for Older People

Clinical interest: Fractures in Older People, Surgical Optimisation in Older People, Patient Safety, Quality improvement

Secretary: Michaela Perry

Telephone: 0117 414 9457

Seema is Associate Medical Director and Consultant in Medicine for Older People.
She has been a Consultant in Medicine for Older People at North Bristol NHS Trust for 11 years. In her clinical role, she delivers care in several services including complex care for older people, comprehensive geriatric assessment for older people with major trauma (Silver Trauma), front door emergency care sessions with the Complex Assessment and Liaison Service (CALS), and directly supervises several doctors in training.
She also leads the safety and quality improvement (QI) programme across the Trust which is building QI capacity and capability, improvements in clinical care and building our safety culture. Seema led the development of a combined ‘National Early Warning Score (NEWS) and Pain’ chart across the Trust, which helps the early identification of patients at risk of deterioration.
Seema also lead the development of a novel NEWS chart for Neurosciences, which helps detect deteriorating neurological health. More recently Seema developed and implemented the Learning from Deaths programme trust-wide.
Seema was awarded an MBE in the 2018 Queen’s New Year’s Honours list for her services to the NHS in Patient Safety.

GMC Number: 4304007

Year of first qualification: 1996, Barts, London

Specialty: Anaesthetics

Clinical interests: Medical Education

Secretary: Anaesthetic Secretaries

Telephone: 0117 414 5114

Dr Kay Spooner completed her anaesthetic training in the South West region and was appointed to a consultant post in South Wales in 2007, before moving to North Bristol NHS Trust (NBT) in 2010.

She is currently the Foundation Year One Programme Director and Lead for the Trust Clinical Fellows; as well as being an educational supervisor and investigator of complaints for the anaesthetic department.
 

GMC Number: 3467499

Year of first qualification: 1990, Cambridge University

Specialty: Intensive Care Medicine and Anaesthetics

Clinical interest: : Care of the critically-ill and injured patient, resuscitation, cardiac arrest, and anaesthesia for urology and adrenal surgery

Telephone: 0117 414 5114

Dr Jasmeet Soar became a Consultant at North Bristol NHS Trust (NBT) in 1999. He became a Fellow of the Royal College of Anaesthetists in 1994, a foundation Fellow of the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine in 2011, and A Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 2013.

He works mainly in the Intensive Care Unit, and also anaesthetises for major urological and adrenal surgery, especially during robotically assisted operations.

He has an interest in patient safety, with the aim of ensuring patients receive the right care in a timely manner with outcomes they value.

Dr Jasmeet Soar also has a major research interest in cardiopulmonary resuscitation. He was Chair of the Resuscitation Council (UK) from 2009 to 2012. He currently chairs the Advanced Life Support Working Group of the European Resuscitation Council, and the Advanced Life Support Task Force of  the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation. He also edits the journal Resuscitation.

GMC Number: 4274436

Year of first qualification: 1984, Medical University, Warsaw, Poland

Specialty: Neurology

Clinical interests: Epilepsy and Epilepsy Surgery

Secretary: Katherine White and Amy Melillo

Telephone: 0117 4146686  or 0117 4148012

Dr Kasia Sieradzan is a Consultant Neurologist with a specialist interest in epilepsy and epilepsy surgery.

She is the Clinical Lead for Neurology and the Clinical Lead of the Bristol Adult Epilepsy Surgery Programme.

She is a member of the Association of British Neurologists, American Epilepsy Society and International League against Epilepsy Providing care in all aspects of general neurology and epileptology including epilepsy surgery assessment, videotelemetry and intracranial stereoEEG recordings.

She is involved in transitional work with the Paediatric Epilepsy Surgery Programme in Bristol.

GMC Number: 4711766

Year of first qualification: 2000

Specialty: Haematology

Telephone: 0117 414 8391

Specialty: Anaesthetics

Telephone: 0117 414 1577

May we remind you that you do not need to add a 9 after the area code (0117) or before the 4.

Switchboard telephone: 0117 9505050

Bristol Brain Centre telephone: 0117 4148232

Bristol Breast Care Centre telephone: 0117 4147000

Cotswold Centre Outpatients telephone: 0117 4146768

Central Delivery Suite Ward telephone: 0117 4146916

Cotswold Ward telephone: 0117 4146785

Cotswold Ward Day Unit telephone: 0117 4146792

Elgar Ward 1 telephone: 0117 4141820

Elgar Ward 2 telephone: 0117 4141785

Maternity Delivery Suite telephone: 0117 4146916

Maternity Reception telephone: 0117 4146894

Mendip Birth Centre telephone: 0117 4146902

Quantock Ward telephone: 0117 4146905

Percy Philips Ward telephone: 0117 4146821

Brunel building Telephone Numbers

Wards

Gate 6B telephone: 0117 4143905

Gate 7A telephone: 0117 4144400

Gate 7B telephone: 0117 4141331

Gate 8A telephone: 0117 4142155

Gate 8B telephone: 0117 4144800

Gate 9A telephone: 0117 4146300

Gate 9B telephone: 0117 4143300

Gate 25A telephone: 0117 4143910

Gate 25B telephone: 0117 4143103

Gate 26A telephone: 0117 4141336

Gate 26B telephone: 0117 4144000 or 0117 4144001

Gate 27A telephone: 0117 4140051

Gate 27B telephone: 0117 4142777

Gate 28A telephone: 0117 4143005

Gate 28B telephone: 0117 4142808

Gate 31A telephone: 0117 4144501

Gate 31B telephone: 0117 4144501

Gate 32A telephone: 0117 4146200

Gate 32B telephone: 0117 4143234 or 0117 4143233

Gate 33A telephone: 0117 4143102

Gate 33B telephone: 0117 4142630

Gate 34A telephone: 0117 4148970

Gate 34B telephone: 0117 4143601

Bristol Laser Centre
Gate 24 telephone: 0117 4141212

Outpatients
Outpatients contact centre telephone: 0300 5550103

Imaging (Radiology/X-Ray)
Imaging appointments office: 0117 4148989

Endoscopy 
Gate 13 telephone: 0117 4145050 or 0117 4145051

Urgent Care

Emergency Department Main Reception Gate 35: 0117 4145100 or 0117 4145101

Acute Medical Unit (AMU) Gate 31: 0117 4144500 or 0117 4144501

Intensive Care Gate 37: 0117 4141400 or 0117 4141449