Biography After graduating, Marek Kaminski worked as a Consultant Anaesthetist in Poland until 2003. Between 2003-2009 he worked as an Associate Specialist and later as a Consultant in Anaesthetics and Pain Management in Denmark. Marek Kaminski joined Shepton Mallet Treatment Centre (then UKSH, later Care UK) as a Consultant Anaesthetist in 2009. Between 2011 and…

Biography Dr Lydia Knoell graduated from the Medical Faculty of J.W. Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main, Germany in 1986. She started her medical career in general medicine and paediatrics and then began her training in Anaesthesia and Intensive Medicine and Emergency Medicine in 1990. Dr Knoell qualified as a specialist in Anaesthesia in 1996…

New research released today reveals that pain is by far the biggest driver in the increasing trend of ‘self-pay’ private healthcare, where people pay for the treatment they need. Almost half (48%) of people in Britain who have paid for treatment such as surgery in the last year in order to get faster access to…

Biography James Wareham is a Consultant working in our pain management speciality in Shepton Mallet but he is also an Interventional Neuroradiologist at North Bristol NHS Trust. James is one of six interventional neuroradiologists at Southmead hospital that deliver the regional sub-arachnoid haemorrhage and stroke thrombectomy service and along with Dr Steve Morgan and Dr…

Biography Dr Gary James Gutteridge studied Medicine between 1986 and 1992 at the University of Oxford. He began his first position in Anaesthesia at Stoke Mandeville Hospital in 1995 and completed his Certificate of Specialist Training in Anaesthesia in the Bristol deanery in December 2002. In addition to his training in anaesthesia, Dr Gutteridge has…