Pain Management & Research Fellowship

The Royal Marsden Department of Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine provides a consultant-delivered service across the Trust. The emphasis is on delivering exceptional evidence-based and compassionate care to cancer patients. There are 7 operating theatres at the Chelsea site and 2 at the Sutton site. In Chelsea, the case mix is predominantly complex major surgery across a wide range of specialities: upper gastrointestinal (oesophagectomy, gastrectomy), lower gastrointestinal (total pelvic exenteration, rectal and colonic resections), gynaecology (ovarian debulking, hysterectomy), urology (prostatectomy, cystectomy, nephrectomy), sarcoma (retroperitoneal sarcoma resection, melanoma and peripheral sarcoma resection), head and neck, and plastics (breast free flap reconstruction, pelvic reconstruction). There is a well-established robotic programme. Breast surgery and brachytherapy is also performed in Chelsea theatres, as well as adult vascular access (Portacath insertion). In
Sutton, the case mix includes breast, sarcoma and plastics (typically day case procedures); there is also a vascular access service (adult and paediatric). Theatres are equipped with modern equipment and electronic anaesthetic charts. There is almost exclusive use of total intravenous anaesthesia, and depth of anaesthesia monitoring is available in every theatre, as well as videolaryngoscopes and fibreoptic scopes., In addition to theatre activity, the department provides anaesthetic support for patients undergoing interventional radiology procedures and endoscopy at the Chelsea site as well as additional endoscopy at the newly opened Oak Cancer Centre in Sutton. At the Sutton site, consultants provide daily anaesthetic support for paediatric patients undergoing oncology procedures (radiotherapy, intrathecal chemotherapy, bone marrow aspirate) and imaging (MRI, MIBG scans).

The Royal Marsden operates as a specialist cancer hospital and together with its principal academic partner, The Institute of Cancer Research (ICR), is a National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) for cancer.
The Royal Marsden and the ICR have a combined workforce of almost 6,000 people and are ranked as one of the top comprehensive cancer centres in the world for the impact of their research, seeing over 60,000 NHS and private patients every year and having nearly 1,000 clinical trials open to patients at any one time.
It is a centre of excellence with an international reputation for ground breaking research and for pioneering the very latest in cancer treatments and technologies, as well as leading the way in innovative cancer diagnosis, education and cancer survivorship programmes.
The Royal Marsden has two hospitals, one in Chelsea, London and another in Sutton, Surrey. It also has a Medical Day Unit at Kingston Hospital and a private care diagnostic and treatment centre in Cavendish Square, central London.

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Flu Vaccination - What We Expect of our Staff
At The Royal Marsden we have an immune compromised patient population who we must protect as much as we can against the flu virus. Each year, seasonal flu affects thousands of people in the UK. Occurring mainly in winter, it is an infectious respiratory disease capable of producing symptoms ranging from those similar to a common cold, through to very severe or even fatal disease.
The wellbeing of our staff and patients is of the upmost importance to us, and it is the expectation of The Royal Marsden that all patient-facing staff have an annual flu vaccination, provided free of charge by the Trust.