Sleep Medicine Consultant

The role of the respiratory and sleep specialist is to provide diagnosis and management of people referred with respiratory and sleep disorders, provide training and take part in teaching of students and junior medical staff and other health groups and to provide services within the available resources.

The physician will be responsible for those people admitted for investigation and treatment by them. They will participate in the consultation service for other departments in the hospital. They will join with other respiratory physicians in managing patients admitted to the Medical Service with acute respiratory failure, cystic fibrosis, pleural disease, and complex airways disease.

They will carry out thoracic ultrasound, bronchoscopies and other interventional procedures, and will provide appropriate supervision of these activities to junior staff.