Pioneers in patient care: consultants leading change
Midlands
Innovation: The use of photodynamic therapy, rather than surgery, to target cancerous tissue in patients with early oesophageal cancer
Professor Hugh Barr
Gloucestershire Royal Infirmary, Gloucester
Consultant surgeon and professor of surgery
Innovation: Stenting of aortic aneurysms
Professor Peter Bell
Leicester Royal Infirmary, Leicester
Professor of surgery
Innovation: Paediatrician to Young Substance Misuser Project to give young people holistic health assessment
Dr Loretta Light
St Michaels Hospital, Lichfield, Staffordshire
Consultant community paediatrician
Innovation: The development and expansion of liver transplantation to become a safe and effective treatment of liver disease
Professor Paul McMaster
Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham
Professor of hepatobiliary surgery & transplantation
Innovation: A Specialist Parkinson’s Disease Clinic and programme to improve the quality of life and support for people who have the disease, their families and carers
Dr Kirit Patel
Bucknall Hospital, Stoke on Trent
Consultant physician
Innovation: A perineal trauma clinic based at Birmingham Women’s Hospital for women who have sustained injuries following childbirth and developed symptoms such as anal incontinence
Mr Simon Radley
Queen Elizabeth Hospital and Selly Oak Hospital, Birmingham
Senior lecturer and honorary consultant surgeon