The region is split into three areas for training purposes: East, West and South Yorkshire.
Each region has a wide variety of training locations, ranging from smaller district general hospitals in rural areas through to the major teaching hospitals in the cities. Trainees can expect to spend one to two years in a teaching hospital and three or four years in a district general hospital, with exposure to both respiratory and general medical disciplines throughout the five year period.
Less Than Full Time Training (LTFTT)
Less than full time training (LTFTT) is very popular within our speciality and we will always endeavour to accommodate trainees ideally in slot shares. Lots of our past trainees have had very successful flexible training, and many have gone to work LTFT as consultants. Our speciality is very varied so lends itself well to this type of approach. A good work life balance is definitely achievable. Please read the HEYH guidance on LTFTT; it is advisable to make early contact with the TPDs to discuss placements and days (before arranging childcare).
For more up to date information on Less Than Full Time Training see our LTFT Page here
These are often busy jobs providing high intensity general medicine with an introduction and initial training in a spectrum of DGH respiratory medicine. Unselected general medical takes will give good experience to fulfil training requirements and both inpatient and outpatient respiratory experience is provided. All posts are attached to respiratory physicians many of whom have areas of special interest. Training in fibreoptic bronchoscopy is provided in all posts, EBUS in many and thoracoscopy in some.
East Yorkshire
Grimsby, Diana Princess of Wales Hospital (1 post)
General respiratory medicine including experience of sleep and NIV with Dr L. O’Flynn and Dr D Jones.
Pinderfields Hospital, Wakefield (9 posts in total)
The Mid Yorkshire Respiratory Service is large and comprehensive, there are 13 consultants, 1 associate specialist; 9 specialist trainees from all 3 regions and 13 junior doctors. We provide a specialist sleep and ventilation service, a 14 bed Respiratory Care Unit, a large lung cancer service including EBUS and thoracoscopy, a nationally recognised asthma service and specialist services for interstitial lung disease and tuberculosis. The MAU is busy and you will also have the opportunity to gain great experience in G(I)M.
Scarborough District Hospital (1 post)
This post provides excellent GIM and Respiratory experience working in a busy DGH. The trainee will work with Dr David Ford and Dr Mike Pond. Scarborough has been a trail-blazer for integrating respiratory services across primary and secondary care boundaries and has a highly developed respiratory nurse team. As the sole respiratory registrar at the hospital there is, literally, unrivalled opportunity for bronchoscopy experience. We are an integral part of the Hull/York medical school and undergraduate teaching is encouraged.
Scunthorpe General Hospital (1 post)
A year spent working in Scunthorpe General Hospital for Drs Stuart Baugh and Mikail Yasso. This post provides excellent GIM and Respiratory experience working in a busy DGH with emphasis on acute NIV, lung cancer and TB. The department has a well-equipped respiratory function laboratory.
York District General Hospital (2 posts)
This is a busy DGH placement offering a broad range of respiratory and GIM experience. There are excellent opportunities for developing pleural procedure, bronchoscopy and EBUS skills, and for gaining experience in lung cancer, sleep/NIV, cystic fibrosis and COPD as well as general respiratory medicine.
West Yorkshire
Airedale General Hospital (2 posts)
Bradford Royal Infirmary (2 posts)
Working in Bradford gives trainees exposure to interesting and complex general and respiratory medicine. You will work with Drs Aziz, Saralaya, Cheyne and Hall. As one of a team of two registrars there is ample opportunity to develop skills in bronchoscopy and EBUS as well as attend specialist clinics in TB, difficult asthma, lung cancer and sleep medicine.
Calderdale Royal Hospital (1 post)
This post, in Halifax, will be with Dr Anneka Biswas, Dr Rod Taylor, Dr Steve Thomas and Dr Rehan Naseer. It provides training in lung cancer and good opportunities for training in bronchoscopy.
Harrogate District Hospital (2 posts)
The job offers good exposure to acute medicine and a wide range of respiratory conditions. Registrars are involved in clinics, audit, and play an integral part in delivering teaching to medical students from Leeds Medical School.
Huddersfield Royal Infirmary (3 posts)
A year of respiratory medicine with high intensity general medicine. EBUS training is now also possible.
Pinderfields Hospital, Wakefield (9 posts in total)
The Mid Yorkshire Respiratory Service is large and comprehensive, there are 13 consultants, 1 associate specialist; 9 specialist trainees and 13 junior doctors. We provide a specialist sleep and ventilation service, a 14 bed Respiratory Care Unit, a large lung cancer service including EBUS and thoracoscopy, a nationally recognised asthma service and specialist services for interstitial lung disease and tuberculosis. The MAU is busy and you will also have the opportunity to gain great experience in G(I)M.
South Yorkshire
Barsnley District Hospital (2 posts)
Learning opportunities include bronchoscopy with EBUS/TBNA and radial probe US, respiratory HDU unit with NIV for acute respiratory failure, specialist TB, LTOT assessment and lung cancer clinics, general respiratory clinics and inpatient management of acute respiratory condition in a specialist respiratory ward.
Chesterfield Royal Infimary (2 Posts)
Learning opportunities include inpatient acute/general and respiratory medicine and respiratory OP clinics. Sleep and Acute NIV for type 2 respiratory failure on the MAU and respiratory ward. Medical HDU. bronchoscopy with TBBx, semi-rigid thoracoscopy, lung cancer MDT, x-ray meeting and thoracic USS.
Doncaster Royal Infirmary
DRI is becoming a major U/S teaching unit with regular weekly teaching sessions led currently by the radiographers and ready access to US-guided drain insertion. Respiratory consultant training is well advanced and there are substantial opportunities for registrar level training. There is a weekly TB clinic run by our associate specialist Dr Selvan. NIV is delivered through a physiotherapy-led service with domiciiary long-term NIV therapy for patients with OHS and COPD. There is a weekly thoracoscopy list and twice weekly bronchoscopy lists. We offer skin prick testing. DRI offers a busy ITU which offers specific placements to respiratory trainees.
Pinderfields Hospital, Wakefield (9 posts in total)
The Mid Yorkshire Respiratory Service is large and comprehensive, there are 13 consultants, 1 associate specialist; 9 specialist trainees and 13 junior doctors. We provide a specialist sleep and ventilation service, a 14 bed Respiratory Care Unit, a large lung cancer service including EBUS and thoracoscopy, a nationally recognised asthma service and specialist services for interstitial lung disease and tuberculosis. The MAU is busy and you will also have the opportunity to gain great experience in G(I)M.
Rotherham District General Hospital (1 Post)
Consultants: Dr P Bardsley (Lead), Dr N Qureshi, Dr V Athey, Dr S Brennan.
Specialist skills: thoracoscopy, interventional bronchoscopy, pleural/thoracic ultrasound.
East Yorkshire - Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust
- There are two respiratory wards – ward 22 at Castle Hill Hospital (30 beds), and ward 5 at Hull Royal Infirmary (24 beds). Ward H5 includes a 6 bed respiratory high dependency unit where we provide non-invasive ventilation for patients admitted acutely with respiratory failure.
- Up to 25 consultant-led respiratory outpatient clinics per week. Specialist clinics are provided for patients with asthma, chronic cough, cystic fibrosis, home ventilation, interstitial lung disease, lung cancer, pleural disease, pulmonary hypertension, and tuberculosis. These clinics are supported by our team of dedicated specialist nurses.
- Bronchoscopy lists run four times weekly at CHH. We provide endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) and endobronchial ultrasound (EBUS).
- Lung cancer MDT meeting runs weekly at CHH.
- The respiratory team provides 7 day specialist in-reach to the AAU.
- All the respiratory consultants contribute to the acute general medicine rota at HRI.
- We have a commitment to teaching undergraduate medical students at Hull York Medical School.
- Our academic consultants run the clinical trials unit and the basic science research laboratory at CHH.
- Hull Royal Infirmary houses the North of England HHT centre, and the respiratory department is a sub centre of the Northern pulmonary vascular unit.
- The respiratory department has close links with the regional oncology unit based in the new Queen’s Centre at Castle Hill Hospital.
- Hull is the regional centre for cardiothoracic services for East Yorkshire. The unit has 6 cardiothoracic surgeons with specialised services in cardiothoracic radiology and pathology.
- We have close links with three intensive care units. Respiratory trainees in Hull will spend 3 months working in ICU.
South Yorkshire - Sheffield Teaching Hospitals Trust
The respiratory unit at Northern General Hospital (NGH) is the regional centre for cardiothoracic services for South Yorkshire. There are 12 NHS chest consultants (Professor Stephen Renshaw, Drs Steve Bianchi, Claire Burton, Jennifer Hill, Rodney Hughes, Judith Hurdman, Omar Pirzada, Rod Lawson, Leon Lewis, Shiron Saha, Frank Edenborough & Martin Wildman, the latter 2 delivering the CF service). NGH and RHH are part of the Sheffield Thoracic Institute affiliated with a strong thoracic surery, radiology, pathology and oncology services. Specialist areas include sleep disordered breathing and non-invasive ventilation, tuberculosis, bronchiectasis, lung cancer and pleural disease, asthma, COPD, CF and pulmonary venothromboembolism. There is a commitment to acute general medicine in this attachment. Dr McGivern has a particular interest in Lung Cancer with a regular multidisciplinary clinic. A 4 bedded NIV unit exists and a complex bronchoscopy (EBUS, laser, stenting), thorascopy and pleural procedures service (incorporating radiological assessment) is operational. Trainees usually spend 2 1/2 years in STH.
At the Royal Hallamshire hospital there are currently 8 consultants (Professors David Fishwick and Ian Sabroe, Drs Chris Barber, Charlie Elliot, Robin Condliffe, David Kiely, Sarah Walmsley and Steve Renshaw). Specialist areas include difficult asthma, interstitial lung disease, occupational lung disease and pulmonary hypertension. RHH has a strong academic profile. In addition there are also opportunities to gain experience in related specialities including infectious disease, lung disease in the immunocompromised host and in patients with rheumatological disease. The Respiratory Unit sees a large number of referrals from other specialist units providing an exposure to complex and unusual respiratory problems.
Both RHH and NGH have full pulmonary function facilities, specialist nurse input and specialised services including elective admission suites and day-case procedures/assessments.
For more information http://www.lungsheffield.org
West Yorkshire - Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
- The respiratory department of the Leeds Teaching Hospitals will provide an opportunity for specialist respiratory medicine training. There is currently minimal regular commitment to acute general medicine.
- There are currently 14 substantive consultants each with their own special interest and specialist clinics: Dr Beirne (ILD), Dr Boland (COPD and palliative care), Dr Callister (lung cancer), Dr Clifton (asthma and CF), Dr Dimov (COPD), Dr Elankumaran (ICU and lung cancer), Dr Elliott (sleep related breathing disorders, domiciliary ventilation), Dr Miller (NIV and acute respiratory care), Dr Peckham (CF and bronchiectasis), Dr Robson (lung cancer), Dr Roger (lung cancer), Dr Sutherland (ILD and asthma), Dr Watson (TB) and Dr Whittaker (CF and TB)
- Trainees spending 2 years in Leeds can expect to gain experience in most of these subspecialities, through a modular rotation. There are also opportunities to gain some experience in related specialities including HIV and immunology, and a 3 month placement in Intensive Care.
- One trainee per year (selected by competitive interview) will have the opportunity to have a number of dedicated research sessions each week, allowing them to pursue a special interest in more depth.
- The Respiratory Unit sees a large number of referrals from other specialist units providing an exposure to complex and unusual respiratory problems.
- In-patients are at St James University Hospital (SJUH), with 80 general respiratory beds, and an adjacent 10 bedded Respiratory Care Unit for acute NIV and other severe respiratory diseases, and a separate cystic fibrosis ward nearby.
- There is a dedicated bronchoscopy unit, with facilities for EBUS, diathermy, and medical thoracoscopy.
- Outpatient clinics are held in the dedicated Leeds Chest Clinic at Leeds General Infirmary, as well as some clinics at St James’s, Wharfedale, and Seacroft hospitals.
- The regional thoracic surgery centre and regional oncology unit are at SJUH.
- There is a well-equipped pulmonary function laboratory including exercise testing and bronchial challenge and training in pulmonary function is available.
- There is a very active educational programme with regular radiology, multidisciplinary lung cancer, ILD, asthma, and TB meetings, and departmental clinical, audit and academic meetings,as well as the hospital weekly medical grand round.
- There is a weekly programme of training in thoracic ultrasound