Anaesthetists are specialist doctors responsible for providing anaesthesia and pain management to patients before, during and after operations and surgical procedures.
The first step towards a career as an anaesthetist is medical school. Undergraduate medical training mostly lasts for five years and medical students normally graduate with a bachelors degree. This page contains information on the undergraduate stages of training in anaesthesia up until becoming a consultant.
A cataract forms when the natural lens in your eye becomes cloudy. Modern surgery allows the damaged lens to be removed and replaced with an artificial lens.
A cystoscopy is a procedure in which a thin telescope (called a cystoscope) is used to look inside your bladder. This is inserted through the urethra, the tube that carries urine from the bladder to the outside of the body.
A hernia is a lump that forms when fatty tissue or part of your intestine (gut) pushes through a weakness in the muscle wall of your abdomen or top of your thigh.
A hysteroscopy is an operation to look at the inside of your womb (uterus). A narrow telescope (called a hysteroscope) lets your surgeon look at the inside of your womb.