About Richard

Richard’s academic career began at the prestigious King Edward’s School in Birmingham where, unusually, he achieved a high standard in the Classics, Science and sport. Having taken the science route, in addition to representing the School (and beyond) in Rugby, Swimming, Athletics, Basketball and Cross-country running, he went to the University of Leeds and graduated from their medical school in 1996. Since then, he has worked full-time in the NHS, gaining a broad base of experience in various specialties including Paediatrics, Paediatric surgery and neonatology in Leeds, followed by Respiratory and Renal Medicine, Accident and Emergency and General Surgery in Middlesbrough. However, after working in Intensive Care in Middlesbrough, he chose Anaesthesia and Intensive Care as his specialty, and has worked in many hospitals up and down the country during his training, including the University Hospital of North Tees, James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough, as well as Bury St. Edmunds, Peterborough, Luton and Addenbrookes Hospital in Cambridge. Having relocated to Sevenoaks in 2008, he began working at the Kent and Sussex Hospital in Tunbridge Wells, where he is still based.

In addition to his anaesthetic and intensive care work, he became interested in aesthetic and cosmetic work following a period of anaesthetising for major plastic surgery procedures. This rapidly developed into a more formal interest when it became clear from reading the medical literature that not only was botox effective for the treatment of wrinkles, it also had wider applications, especially in the treatment of hyperhidrosis, and was associated with very high levels of patient satisfaction. Having treated several patients with good results, he decided to make a formal move into non-surgical aesthetic treatments and attended training courses organised by Cosmetic Courses, He also regularly gives up a day of his spare time to work alongside a local plastic surgeon to ensure that he keeps up to date with advances in equipment and techniques.

He has particularly strong feelings about the unregulated nature of this work, and welcomes recent attempts by the British Association of Cosmetic Doctors, the Care Quality Commission and the Independent Healthcare Advisory Services to try to ensure a better quality service for patients, and better regulation of people working in the industry.