Nottingham City Hospital

Introduction

A busy hospital in Nottingham, including 1100 beds, 23 theatres. A wide mix of specialties including breast, burns, plastics, colorectal, endocrine, renal (inluding transplant), gynae (including gynae-oncology), thoracics, upper GI, urology, many specialities utilising robotic surgery, orthopaedics (upper and lower limb), daycase, cardiac, tertiary obstetrics, interventional/EP cardiology, pain, pre-op.

162 consultants (across NUH, including ITU consultants that also do anaesthetics)

Critical care department, Cardiac intensive care, Enhanced post-operative care unit

Facilities

  • Operating theatres: 10 Elective and 2 emergency theatres. 2 obstetric theatres
  • Specialist services: Obstetrics
  • Staff: 162 consultants (across NUH)
  • Critical Care: ICU / HDU / Cardiac ICU

Training modules

  • General Anaesthesia
  • ICM
  • Novice
  • Safety and QI
  • Resuscitation and Transfer
  • Thoracics (SIA)
  • Complex orthopaedics
  • Pain medicine
  • Sedation
  • Perioperative medicine
  • Regional (+SIA)
  • Obstetrics
  • Cardiac

Teaching programme – consultant led teaching and sim, see ‘NUH residents’ Teams group for details and booking

ACE meetings – 5 per year

Journal club – weekly F2F and Teams

Echo club – once per month, info on ‘NUH residents ‘ Teams group

M&M –obs, thoracic, general, cardiac – see non clinical activity section of ‘NUH residents’ Teams group

New anaesthetic department with seminar room, oncall rooms, resident office, meeting spaces and kitchen/break room 

  ‘Coffee club’ – wellbeing meeting for resident doctors 

Getting here

Address: Nottingham City Hospital, Hucknall Road, Nottingham, NG5 1PB

  • Parking: Limited on‑site patient/visitor parking, chargeable
  • Medilink: free bus for NUH staff from QMC/Queens drive park and ride/Wilkinson street park and ride 
  • Bus: blue, purple and brown lines from city centre 

Google Maps: Open directions

what3words (main entrance): ///police.evenly.tune

Key contacts

  • NUH main switchboard: 01159 691169
  • Anaesthetic College Tutors: Dr Ari Govindarajan, Dr Deepak Subramani
  • Head of Service: Dr Sumera Hussain, Dr Olly Griffith
  • Resident Rota Consultant:Dr Brooke Morgan, Dr Anu Phillips, Dr Vijay Chikkabbaiah

Work–life and locality

Historic city with multiple attractions

Great shopping

Large variety of bars, restaurants and clubs/music venues

Trent bridge cricket

Football – Nottingham Forest and Notts County

Theatres, motorpoint arena for concerts

National water sports centre

Nottingham Christmas market

NUH Website

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