GMC Number: 7449962

Year of first qualification: 2003, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece

Specialty: Cellular Pathology

Clinical interests: Histopathology

Secretary: Lynsey Dorney

Telephone: 0117 414 9824

Dr Anastasios Chatzitolios qualified in 2003 from the Medical School, Democritus University Of Thrace, Greece.

He received his PhD in 2011. 

GMC Number: 6050872

Year of first qualification: 2002, University of Bristol

Specialty: Anaesthetics 

Clinical interest: Neuroanaesthesia, Medical Education

Telephone: 0117 414 2641

GMC Number: 4476362

Year of first qualification: 1997, University of Cambridge

Specialty: Renal Medicine

Clinical interest: Haemodialysis, Acute Kidney Injury

Secretary: Lynn Tottle

Telephone: 0117 414 7696

Dr Albert Power is Specialty Lead for Renal & Transplant Services and Strategic Director for Vascular, Renal, Transplant & Urology Networks, ASCR Division. He is also lead for Haemodialysis with a specialist interest in acute & maintenance dialysis therapies.    He graduated from Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge and completed his MD at Imperial College London.    He is also Lead for Clinical Research in the Directorate with portfolios examining stroke & vascular pathology in dialysis patients, vascular access function and coagulation. He is a member of the RA, ASN, ERA-EDTA, ISPD & ISHD.

Telephone Numbers -  Operations Centre/Hot Clinic/Urgent Referrals

Operations centre (Medicine, Surgery & Ambulatory Emergency Care Centre)
Telephone: 0117 4140700

Respiratory Hot Clinic
Fax: 0117 4145111

Radiology – Imaging Paper Requests
Fax: 0117 4149466

Radiology – appointment queries
Telephone: 0300 3000089

TIA Office
Neurology – urgent referrals
Telephone: 0117 4146600
Fax: 0117 4149489
Fax: 0117 4149479
Fax: 0117 4149475

Neurosurgery – urgent referrals
Fax: 0117 4149479 

Vascular Hot Clinic
Telephone: 0117 4140798
Fax: 0117 4149421
Email: nbn-tr.bbwvascularnetwork@nhs.net

Tepid Clinic referrals
Telephone: 0117 4146443
Fax: 0117 4149457

Warfarin Monitoring – Pathology
Telephone: 0117 4148405 (Helpdesk)

Outpatient Physiotherapy referrals
Telephone: 0117 4144413
Fax: 0117 4149483

ED Main Reception
Telephone: 0117 4145100 or 0117 41445101

GP referrals – outpatient appointments (NHS eReferrals or letter) to be sent to:

Outpatient Appointments Office
Office 3, Level 2, Gate 4
Brunel building
Southmead Hospital
Bristol     
BS10 5NB

Telephone: 0300 5550103
Fax:  0117 4149400

For all other clinical correspondence, please use the specialty specific fax numbers as follows:

Outpatient Appointments: 0117 4149400
Cardiac Cath Labs and Diagnostic Queries: 0117 4149416
Cardiology: 0117 4149377
Care of the Elderly: 0117 4149431
Diabetes and Endocrinology: 0117 4149402
Gastroenterology and Hepatology: 0117 4149435
Immunology and Allergy: 0117 4149386
Infectious Diseases: 0117 4149443
Medical Virology (HIV): 0117 4149442
Respiratory: 0117 4149496

Within the Bristol Breast Care Centre at Southmead Hosptial, Bristol, you will find two separate waiting areas, one for Breast Screening and one for the Breast Clinics. There is a vending machine with snacks, tea and coffee available and a cold water machine.

There are 8 surgeons and clinicians and 6 radiologists running new patient and follow-up clinics, the radiologists in addition reading all the breast screening mammograms for the Avon area and running assessment clinics for this.

There are 5 Clinical Nurse Specialists (CNS) within the Bristol Breast Care Centre who perform much of the nurse led work.

History of the Breast Care Centre

The Bristol Breast Care Centre, the first of its kind in the South West, opened in 1995 as a self-contained, dedicated unit where patients are seen by various specialists who are experts in diverse aspects of the management of breast disease.

There were originally two breast units in Bristol, one at Frenchay and the other at the Bristol Royal Infirmary. The two units merged into the old Southmead Hospital in 2013 making it one of the biggest breast departments in the country. In July 2014 they moved into a new unit, purpose built in Beaufort House on the Southmead Site. Beaufort House is the oldest building at Southmead, originally the workhouse, but it has been transformed into a state of the art breast unit, whilst keeping a lot of the old features. In August 2014 they were joined by Avon Breast Screening so that now all breast services in Bristol are under one roof. This is something which not many cities in the UK can boast, and it has allowed much better working practices and improved patient pathways.

It was one of the first centres in the country to launch one-stop clinics, has twice been awarded the prestigious Charter Mark as a centre of excellence and received a Gold Star on the Peer Review.

The Bristol Interstitial Lung Disease Service at North Bristol NHS Trust cares for catchment area of around 550,000 people (plus additional referrals from other centres), with a variety of interstitial lung diseases including:

• Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF).
• Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis (HP).
• Sarcoidosis.
• Pulmonary fibrosis related to auto-immune conditions such as Rheumatoid arthritis, SLE, systemic sclerosis, Sjogren's syndrome.
• Pulmonary fibrosis due to other causes.

Our team includes:

• Consultant Respiratory Physicians with a specialist interest in Interstitial Lung Disease
• Consultant Rheumatologists
• Specialist ILD Nurses
• Highly Specialist pharmacists and pharmacy technicians
• Multidisciplinary team meeting co-ordinator
• ILD Secretary and pathway co-ordinator
• We also have the support of a team of Surgeons, Radiologists and Pathologists.

We offer access to specialist medications whilst providing holistic management of our patients. 

Resources

Asthma and Lung UK: www.blf.org.uk

Action for pulmonary fibrosis: www.actionpf.org

Sarcoidosis UK charity: www.sarcoidosisuk.org 

Main Reception telephone: 0117 9505050

Audiology telephone: 0117 3425854

Birth Centre telephone: 0117 4145150

CFS/ME telephone: 0117 4145192

Community Midwives telephone: 0117 4145160

CoTE (care of the elderly) telephone: 0117 4146443

Imaging telephone: 0117 4145178

LEEP telephone: 0117 4142010

Lymphoedema telephone: 0117 3408403

Outpatients telephone: 0117 4140411

Physiotherapy telephone: 0300 125 6550

Podiatry telephone: 0117 3408404

Renal Dialysis telephone: 0117 4145230

Speech & Language Therapy telephone: 01174145130

For Out of Hours GP (via NHS111) telephone: 111

GMC Number: 6074563

Specialty: Anaesthetics

Clinical interests: Regional Anaesthesia, TIVA, Difficult Airways, Royal College Accreditation, Intranet Lead for Anaesthesia

Secretary: Anaesthetic Secretaries

Telephone: 0117 414 1589

Dr Nick Preston is a member of the Difficult Airway Society and the AAGBI. 

GMC Number: 4211709

Year of first qualification: 1995, UCL Medical School MBBS, London

Specialty: Anaesthetics

Clinical interests: Trauma, Medical Education especially Medical Simulation

Telephone: 0117 414 5441

Dr Curtis Whittle is the Simulation Education Lead for the Anaesthetic and Critical Care Department, North Bristol NHS Trust.

Dr Whittle is a Member of North Bristol's Simulation and Human factor working group as well as the South West Simulation Network.

He is also the Foundation Programme Director for FY1 trainee doctors at North Bristol NHS Trust.