Dr Stuart Packham
Qualifications
MB ChB, Dip TEd, FRCP
GMC number: 3337952
Practising since: 1989
Specialties
General (internal) Medicine, Respiratory Medicine
Consultation times
- Weekly clinics
- Overview
About
Dr Stuart Packham has been a Consultant in Respiratory and General Medicine since 1999. He qualified from the University of Aberdeen and undertook his postgraduate training in a number of centres including Aberdeen, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle and Llandough Hospital, Cardiff.
In addition he held an appointment as a Research Registrar at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA where he studied ventilation in patients with COPD, congenital hypoventilation syndrome and patients pre and post lung transplantation.
He was previously a Consultant at the Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading before returning to Wales and currently works for ABM University Health Board.
He runs a sleep clinic which specialises in the investigation and treatment of sleep disordered breathing including Obstructive Sleep Apnoea.
Special interests
Conditions treated
- Pulmonary thrombo-embolism
- Persistent and chronic cough
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), such as chronic bronchitis and emphysema
- Asthma and allergy
- Obstructive sleep apnoea and sleep-disordered breathing
- Chronic cough
- Breathlessness
- Bronchiectasis and recurrent chest infections
- Pulmonary fibrosis
- Pulmonary thrombo-embolism (blood clots on the lung)
- Pleural effusion
- Lung cancer.
Treatments offered
- Persistent cough assessment and management
- COPD assessment and management
- Asthma and allergy treatment
- Obstructive sleep apnoea investigation and treatment
- Breathlessness investigation
- Bronchiectasis and recurrent chest infections
- Pulmonary fibrosis assessment
- Lung cancer assessment and referral
- Pulmonary thrombo-embolism (blood clots on the lung)
- Pleural effusion assessment
- General respiratory and general medicine consultations.
Other interests
Dr Packham has an interest in the management of persistent cough and was a member of the British Thoracic Society Standards of Care sub-group that produced national guidelines for the investigation and treatment of this common disorder.
Languages spoken
English
Locations Dr Stuart Packham works with
Related experience
Memberships
- Royal College of Physicians
- British Thoracic Society
- British Sleep Society
- National Specialist Advisory Group for Respiratory Medicine
- Secretary of the Welsh Thoracic Society
Other posts held
- Consultant in Respiratory and General Medicine, ABM University Health Board
Insurers Dr Stuart Packham works with
Dr Stuart Packham works with the following private medical insurance providers:
- AXA Health
- Bupa
- WPA
Declaration
Dr Stuart Packham does not hold a share or financial interest in this hospital, another Nuffield Health hospital or the company.
Dr Stuart Packham does not have a share or financial interest in equipment used at this hospital or another Nuffield Health hospital.
Dr Stuart Packham does not hold any paid advisory role(s) at this hospital or on behalf of Nuffield Health.