Locum Consultant In Neurology

We are looking for an enthusiastic Locum Consultant Neurologist with a special interest in MS to join our existing team of Consultants and Specialist Nurses to support the Neurology service provided across the West of Berkshire.

This is a 12-month fixed-term full time (10 PA) post to enhance the care of patients with multiple sclerosis at the Royal Berkshire hospital. It involves provision of outpatient services for newly diagnosis patients, patients receiving disease-modifying therapies, and others requiring long-term supervision. The successful applicant will join a team comprising an existing full-time neurology consultant with a special interest in MS (Dr Pritesh Pranay); an Oxford based MS consultant assisting with the care of Reading patients (Dr Marco Pisa); and three clinical nurse specialists. In addition to offering face-to-face and virtual clinics, the appointee will participate in local and regional MDT clinical and neuro-radiology meetings, and will supervise and support the MS nursing team.

The medical team consists of seven consultants and an Associate Specialist along with a specialist trainee from the Oxford Rotation and 3 GPwER's. There is a large team of ten specialist nurses led by a nurse consultant who provide support in individual disease areas. Approximately 10,000 patients are seen in an outpatient setting per year. In keeping with the Trust's aim of providing care closer to home, clinics are provided at the Royal Berkshire Hospital but also in facilities in Henley, Bracknell, Newbury and Wokingham. There is also increasing provision of video-clinics. Nerve conduction studies and EMG are provided the neurologists in-house and in-sourced from a third-party provider, with complex cases being referred to the John Radcliffe hospital, Oxford. Adult EEG (including ambulatory recordings) is now provided at the Royal Berkshire hospital by a highly specialized clinical physiologist with consultant reports being provided remotely. There is a full range of imaging services and a weekly meeting with the neuro-radiologists.