Respiratory medicine consultants
Dr Rama Vancheeswara
Name, qualifications:
Dr Rama Vancheeswaran, FRCP, MSc Immunology, PhD
Practising at:
Watford Hospital
Royal Brompton and Harefield (Honorary)
Specialty:
Respiratory Medicine
Sub-Specialty:
Interstitial Lung Disease, Complex airways disease, Ventilation
Special Clinical Interests:
Research and Development, Teaching
Current Posts (NHS, University):
Consultant Respiratory and General Physician, West Herts
Honorary Physician, ILD, Royal Brompton
Director, Research and Development, West Herts
Year of First Medical Qualification:
1995
Current Membership of Professional, National and Regional Bodies:
- British Thoracic Society
- European Respiratory Society
- Royal College of Physicians
Contact Details:
- Secretary's name: Samantha Jollivet
- Secretary's telephone number: West Herts Switchboard
- Specialty’s generic email address: respiratorysecretaries@nhs.net
Background
Professional Profile
Awards
- Innovations Award for Cancer (2016) - Ambulatory Lung Cancer.
- Clinical Excellence Award – Level 9 (2018).
- NHS Innovations Award Winner (2015) - Ambulatory Lung Cancer.
- BMJ Award Winner (2015) - Lung cancer innovations
- HSJ Innovations (2016): Lung cancer
- HSJ Award Finalist (2012) for Patient Safety and Integrated Care – Community COPD services in Barnet.
- Raynaud’s and Scleroderma Trust Grant for 3 years (1990)
Recent Profressional Achievements
Community Integrated COPD services: (2007-2016): Designed, negotiated, and developed Integrated Community COPD service for Barnet and West Herts areas covering a catchment population of 850,000. This service provided Hospital at Home, Oxygen assessments at home, Community Consultant and Nurse clinics, Pulmonary Rehabilitation, Palliative Care, Early supported discharge, and HCP education. This service was nomination for patient care and safety by the HSJ and has been assessed as excellent with very high ranking/outcomes by the Atlas of Variation 2012, 2015.
Interstitial Lung Disease (2016): Designed and implemented the North London Interstitial Lung Disease Pathway for the Royal Free Vanguard sites.
Sleep services across Barnet and Chase Farm (2009-2015). Set up and led a new sleep service across trust with currently 700 CPAP users with a full web-based documented compliance data collection.
IMPACT educational course (2007-2018): Implemented a high intensity training course for pre-registrars based on national course to improve patient safety. Have run 18 courses with highly positive trainee feedback scores.
