Dr Jonathan Wills - Anaesthetics

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Dr Jonathan Wills GMC Number: 3549672

Year of first qualification: 1991, Oxford University

Specialty: Anaesthetics

Clinical interest: Regional Anaesthesia

Telephone: 0117 414 0887

Dr Jonathan Wills trained in Anaesthesia in the Nottingham region, before being appointed as a consultant at North Bristol NHS Trust (NBT) in 2002.

Dr Jonathan Wills is particularly interested in Regional Anaesthesia for Orthopaedic operations and truma and is the lead consultant for Gynaecology.

He is involved in the training of both anaesthetic trainees and medical students. 

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Mr Crispin Wigfield - Neurosurgery & Complex Spine Surgery

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GMC number: 4017132

Year & location of first qualification: 1993, University of Birmingham 

Specialty: Neurosurgery & Complex Spine Surgery

Clinical interests: Cervical spine surgery, cranio-cervical junction surgery, cervical arthroplasty, intra-dural spinal microsurgery and neuro-spinal trauma.

Secretary: Lydia Cooley

Telephone: 0117 414 6699

Crispin Wigfield BSc. MB ChB. MD. MSt. FRCS (Eng) FRCS (Neurosurg).

Crispin completed higher surgical training in neurosurgery on the South West training rotation. He was awarded a Doctorate of Medicine (M.D.) for research into spinal biomechanics and cervical disc replacements. Crispin completed the National Spine Fellowship in Leeds and was awarded an HCA International Travelling Fellowship. His first appointment as a consultant neurosurgeon was to The Walton Centre for Neurology and Neurosurgery in Liverpool before returning to the South West. He completed five years as Divisional Clinical Director for Neurological and Musculoskeletal Sciences. In 2020 he was awarded a Master of Studies Degree in Social Innovation from the University of Cambridge Judge Business School.

Crispin is an elected member of council for the Society of British Neurological Surgeons and Honorary Treasurer of the Joint Neurosciences Council. He is a member of the European Spine Society and the British Association of Spine Surgeons.

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Dr Alistair Whiteway - Haematology

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GMC Number: 3545874

Year of first qualification: 1991, London

Specialty: Haematology

Clinical interests: Paraproteinaemias and associated disorders. Myeloproliferative neoplasms. Hodgkin lymphoma. General haematology. Clinical trials. Haemato-oncology diagnostics.

Telephone: 0117 414 8399

Dr Whiteway undertakes clinics for people with myeloma, chronic myeloid leukaemia and similar disorders as well as a general haematology clinic.  As part of a national network of clinicians he helps to support the quarterly PNH clinic held at Southmead hospital.

He supports clinical trials whenever possible, to help ensure best choice and quality of clinical care.

He is lead for laboratory haematology and for the BHODS single integrated haemato-oncology diagnostic service.

He has supported the Trust Thrombosis Committee in VTE prevention and is the Trust Cancer Lead Clinician.

Professional memberships include: British Society for Haematology for which he is a member of the Haem-Onc task force, UK Myeloma Forum, European and American Societies for Hematology and the Royal College of Pathologists for whom he has acted as College Tutor and Assessor.

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Dr Susan Wensley - Care of the Elderly

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Dr Susan Wensley

GMC Number: 3196751

Year of first qualification: 1988, Bristol University

Specialty: Geriatric and General medicine

Clinical interest: Dementia, delirium and frailty, discharge communication

Secretary: Jane Lewis

Telephone: 0117 414 8825

Dr Susan Wensley has been a consultant at North Bristol NHS Trust since 2006 managing the clinical care of a number of inpatients with general medical and geriatric conditions.

She works on the acute medical unit seeing older patients and manages 18-33 patients on a complex ward.

Safety and quality of care are particular interests and Dr Wensley has worked across the health partnerships in improving communication via discharge summaries and computer systems. She works as a CCIO helping to facilitate clinical communications.

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Mr Jason Webb - Trauma & Orthopaedics

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Mr Jason WebbGMC Number: 4089016

Year of first qualification: 1994, University of Bristol

Specialty: Trauma & Orthopaedics

Clinical interest: Hip arthroplasty and Prosthetic joint Infection

Elective Secretary: Maureen Hicks 
Telephone number: 0117 414 7923

Trauma Secretaries: Vicki Stocks/Julia Hirst
Telephone numbers: 0117 414 1624 / 0117 414 1627

Mr Jason Webb is a specialist hip arthroplasty surgeon. He has undertaken fellowships in Bristol and the Endoklinik in Hamburg. In 2015, he was awarded the prestigious Rothman-Ranawat Traveling Fellowship to the USA.

Mr Webb has a subspecialty interest in revision hip arthroplasty and the prevention and treatment of prosthetic joint infection.

He was awarded an MD by the University of Bristol in 2010 for a thesis on joint infection treatment.

He is the clinical lead for Prosthetic Joint Infection and head of Orthopaedic teaching for Severn Deanery.

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Dr Nicola Weale - Anaesthetics

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Dr Nicola WealeGMC Number: 4198132

Year of first qualification: 1995, University of Nottingham

Specialty: Anaesthetics

Clinical interest: Obstetric Anaesthesia

Secretary: Anaesthetic secretaries

Telephone: 0117 414 5114

Dr Nicola Weale qualified from Nottingham University in 1995 and was appointed as a Consultant Anaesthetist at North Bristol NHS Trust in 2009.

Dr Weale has an interest in Obstetric Anaesthesia and Preoperative assessment and is also lead for Urological Anaesthesia.

She also has an interest in medical education and is an educational supervisor of trainees.

Professional memberships: Fellowship Royal College of Anaesthetists 2002.

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Mr Andrew Weale - General Surgery

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Mr Andrew Weale

GMC Number: 4327042

Year of first qualification: 1996, University of Nottingham

Specialty: General Surgery

Clinical interest: Vascular, Endovascular & Renal Transplant Surgery, Arterial Surgery, Diabetic foot disease, re-do and infected graft surgery, Kidney transplantation.

Secretary: Lynsey Wynne

Telephone: 0117 414 0798

Mr Andrew Weale was appointed to North Bristol NHS Trust (NBT) in December 2010.

He delivers major arterial surgery as part of the Bristol, Bath and Weston Vascular Network (BBWVN, established 2014) and is lead for Lower Limb Arterial Surgery and Diabetic foot disease within the BBWVN, chair of the Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire CCG Diabetic Foot Disease Clinical Steering Group and the North Bristol NHS Trust lead for peri-operative patient safety.

His main interests are:  re-do and distal/ultra distal lower limb bypass surgery for patients with critical limb ischaemia/ulceration; management of patients with diabetes and foot disease; and surgery for patients with prosthetic arterial graft infection.

He is also a member of the kidney transplant surgery team at North Bristol Trust.

He has an interest in patient safety and system engineering.

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