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Specialises in

• Brain tumours

• Paediatric

Offers

• Face-to-face consultations
• Video and telephone consultations

About me

I studied Medicine at St Georges Hospital Medical School, affiliated to the University of London, graduating in January 1997 with MB BS (Lond). Subsequently, my postgraduate training in surgery was completed in South-West London, with Basic Surgical Training posts including General Surgery, Vascular Surgery, ENT surgery, Orthopaedic surgery and Neurosurgery. I completed the MRCS (England) in 2000.
My Neurosurgery Registrar training was in Sheffield and Hull, having also worked in Hurstwood Park Neurological Centre, Haywards Heath, (Locum then Trust Grade Registrar).
I further supplemented my training with a period as Visiting Fellow in Paediatric Neurosurgery at the Hopital Necker - Enfants Malades, Paris, France (Summer 2008), and then as the National Fellow in Paediatric Neurosurgery at Alder Hey Childrens Hospital, Liverpool, from Oct 2008 to Feb 2010.
In February 2010 I moved to Leeds as Consultant Neurosurgeon (initially locum then substantive from August 2010). In this post I have particular specialist interests in paediatric neurosurgery and adult neuro-oncology.
Within my adult neuro-oncology portfolio, I am Joint Lead for the Low Grade Glioma service and regularly perform Awake Craniotomies for resection of these tumours (over 120 to date). My Specialist Interests in adult neurosurgery include: Neuro-oncology (particularly Low Grade Glioma surgery & awake craniotomy), Complex Hydrocephalus, Neuro-endoscopy, Trauma.
Within paediatric neurosurgery, I am the Lead for spasticity management neurosurgical procedures and have successfully brought Selective Dorsal Rhizotomy (SDR) to Leeds. From 2013-18 I was on the NHS England Steering Group for Commissioning through Evaluation for Selective Dorsal Rhizotomy which became commissioned in July 2018. By 2026 we have successfully performed more than 180 SDR operations with no significant complications.
My Specialist Interests in Paediatric Neurosurgery include: Spasticity Management (Selective Dorsal Rhizotomy & Intrathecal Baclofen), Neuro-oncology, Epilepsy, Complex Hydrocephalus Neuro-endoscopy, spina bifida, trauma.
In 2010 I was appointed to the SIOP-Europe Brain Tumour Group, and am now the Neurosurgical Lead for the Low Grade Glioma panel.
I currently serve on the NHS Paediatric Neuroscience CRG, and previously served on the CRG for Brain & CNS Tumours from 2013-2016. I am a Specialist Neurosurgery Advisor for NICE.
From 2014-20 I was Joint Clinical Lead for the North East Paediatric Neuroscience Network (NEPNN). From 2018-24 I was Clinical Lead for Paediatric Neurosciences in LTHT.

Areas of interest

Neurological oncology; Neuroendoscopy; Hydrocephalus; Adult cranial neurosurgery (not spinal surgery); Paediatric Spasticity Surgery; Paediatric Neurosurgery; spina bifida; Chiari

Medical secretaries

• Valerie Allerton
• Leeds General Infirmary Great George Street LEEDS LS1 3EX
• 0113 392 8413
• 0113 392 6453
• valerie.allerton@nhs.net