Consultant Haematologist


Company:	NHS Jobs
Salary:	£113,565 - £150,569
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Plymouth, PL6 8DH
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	19 Aug 2026
Closing date:	18 Sept 2026

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Summary

The Plymouth haematology service is the lead tertiary centre in the South West Peninsula with a catchment area of 1.8 million people. The consultant team are proud to lead a research active haematology service with an impressive national and international reputation in the research arena. The haematology service sits within the Haematology & Immunology service line with consultant haematology posts part funded by the Pathology directorate. The consultant haematology team is currently comprised of 11 consultant haematologists (9.43WTE including 0.2WTE research university funded post). This is a new post for a consultant to expand our team with increased myeloma activity and CAR-T development planned in this financial year. The consultant team is supported by 5.8WTE Registrar posts, 1WTE research registrar and 1 registrar teaching fellow. There are in addition 4 junior doctors rotating on a 4-monthly basis through the inpatient ward, these are made of 1 F2 post, 3 IMT1/2 posts and a physician associate. Consultants contribute towards the management of inpatients and outpatients. Patients are formally under the shared care of all consultants as a combined department with responsibility for inpatients managed on a rolling weekly attending rota. All consultants contribute towards the Monday morning ward round hand over meeting. The weekly attending consultant leads a further ward round on a Thursday. The attending consultant of the week is responsible for all inpatients under the care of haematology, including SCT patients. Further advice regarding SCT patients can be sought from the four consultants with specific SCT expertise. Clinics are disease-specific rather than named consultants, however specialist interests are covered as listed in the table below (alphabetical order by surname): Name Role Dr David Burns Consultant Clinical Haematologist Ward Lead for Haematology Specialist interests: CAR-T, SCT and Lymphoma Dr Sam Burrows Consultant Clinical Haematologist Training Programme Director for Haematology Specialist interests: Haemostasis, Thrombosis, Red Cell Disorders and Haematopathology Dr Hannah Hunter Consultant Clinical Haematologist Trust TYAC Lead Specialist interests: Myeloma, SCT and Acute Leukaemia Dr Claire Hutchinson Consultant Clinical Haematologist Specialist interests: CLL, Lymphoproliferative Disorders, Lymphoma and Research Dr Claire Lentaigne Consultant Clinical Haematologist Specialist interests: Haemostasis and Thrombosis, Platelet Disorders, General Haematology and Myeloma Dr David Lewis Consultant Clinical Haematologist Clinical Governance Lead Specialist interests: Lymphoma, SCT and Clinical Research Dr Patrick Medd Consultant Clinical Haematologist Service Line Lead, Haematology and Immunology Programme Director, Southwest Peninsula Transplant Service Specialist interests: Acute Leukaemia, Lymphoma and SCT Dr Georgina Naylor Consultant Clinical Haematologist MPN lead Special interests: MPN, CLL Surgeon Commander Thomas Scorer RN Consultant Clinical Haematologist Transfusion lead Specialist interests: Transfusion, Haemostasis and Thrombosis, Defence Pathology Dr Yin Thi Consultant Clinical Haematologist Obstetric Haematology Lead Specialist interests: General Haematology, Myeloma, Haemostasis and Thrombosis and Obstetric Haematology Dr D. Wayne Thomas Consultant Clinical Haematologist Clinical Lead, Peninsula Pathology Network Undergraduate Teaching Lead Specialist interests: Haemostasis, Thrombosis, Blood Transfusion, Iron and Laboratory Haematology

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