All our consultants are fully qualified and GMC registered medical doctors with specialist training in anaesthesia. They are all NHS consultants based at the Royal Hampshire County Hospital.

Dr Jonathan Anns MBBS, BSc, FRCA, FFPMRCA, EDRA

Dr Anns trained at Guy’s and St. Thomas’ Hospitals, qualifying in 1998. He undertook his anaesthetic training in Wessex and Bristol. He spent a year gaining further anaesthetic experience at Sunnybrook Health Science Centre in Toronto, Canada under taking a fellowship in Regional Anaesthesia and Acute Pain Medicine. He passed the European Diploma in Regional Anaesthesia in 2009. He was appointed as an Anaesthetic Consultant at the Royal Hampshire County Hospital in 2011, where his specialities include ultrasound guided regional anaesthesia and orthopaedic surgery. Currently, he is the trauma lead at the Royal Hampshire County Hospital.

Dr Yogasundaram Arunan MBChB FRCA EDIC FFICM

Dr Arunan is a consultant in Intensive Care Medicine and Anaesthesia at Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. He is the Clinical Lead for Critical Care in Winchester and works across both Winchester and Basingstoke sites. A graduate of Liverpool Medical School, he trained in general internal medicine, anaesthesia and intensive care medicine in the Mersey region and Sheffield.

After completing specialist training in the UK, he completed fellowships in both Intensive Care Medicine and Anaesthesia at the Alfred Hospital in Melbourne, before commencing his consultant post in Hampshire. He has accreditation in intensive care echocardiography and lung ultrasound and medical leadership. He’s an experienced Advanced Life Support instructor, enjoys medical teaching and has organised and taught on courses both in the UK and Australia. In anaesthesia, he has an interest in education, major colorectal surgery, enhanced recovery and regional anaesthesia.

Dr Stuart Batistich MBBS, FRCA, PG Dip Echo

Dr Batistich was born in Australia and trained at Monash Medical School in Melbourne, before moving to England and under going his anaesthetic training in the Wessex Deanery. He gained further anaesthetic experience as a fellow at the Alfred hospital and the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital in Melbourne in 2006. He has been a consultant at Winchester since 2009 and his specialities include ultrasound guided regional anaesthesia for both general and orthopaedic surgery. He is currently the lead consultant for regional anaesthesia at the Royal Hampshire County Hospital.

Dr Kate Berry MBChB BSc FRCA

Dr Berry qualified in medicine from the University of Leeds in 2010. She completed her junior years of anaesthesia training in Leeds, before moving to London (St George’s) then Wessex for registrar posts. She works as a consultant across both the Winchester and Basingstoke sites of Hampshire Hospitals Foundation Trust with interests in ENT, colorectal surgery, orthopaedics and trauma. She also has additional qualifications in clinical hypnosis and an interest in teaching advanced communication skills and anxiety management.

Dr Philip Dodd MB BS, BSc, FRCA

After graduation from Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School, Dr Dodd gained his speciality training in Anaesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine based at St Georges’ Hospital, London. After a research fellowship in Perth, Australia, including teaching as an Honorary Clinical Lecturer at the University of Western Australia, he took up his current Consultant Anaesthetist post in Winchester in 2004. He is Lead Clinician for the NHS Day Surgery Treatment Centre and is the anaesthetic member of the Medical Advisory Committee for the Wessex Nuffield Hospital. He also works at Basingstoke Hospital in the orthopaedic trauma service.

Dr George Evetts MBBS, BSc, MRCP, FRCA, FFICM

Dr Evetts qualified from Imperial college school of medicine before taking up postgraduate Anaesthesia & Intensive Care training in Wessex and London. During training, he completed a fellowship in Australia working in Intensive Care at the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital, and for the Royal Flying Doctor Service of Queensland.

Dr Evetts retired from the Royal Air Force in 2022 with whom he deployed to several war zones and on humanitarian missions. Towards the end of his 20-year military career, Dr Evetts was appointed RAF Consultant advisor to advise on all operational and training aspects of the speciality.

Dr Evetts’ interests are regional anaesthesia, retrieval and transfer medicine, and critical care echocardiography. He also has an interest in research with several Covid-19 related publications and has been local principal investigator for many critical care portfolio trials.

Dr Arthur Goldsmith MBChB, MRCP, FRCA, FFICM

After medical school in Cape Town, Dr Goldsmith trained in anaesthetics, general medicine & intensive care in the UK, and a year in Perth, Australia.  He was appointed as an NHS consultant in anaesthetics and intensive care at Royal Hampshire County Hospital, Winchester in 1999.  His anaesthetic private practice has been based at Sarum Road Hospital, Winchester and Nuffield Health Wessex Hospital, Eastleigh since 1999. He has an established interest in perioperative medicine, enhanced recovery after surgery and research.

Dr Irina Grecu MBBS, PhD, AFRCA, AFICM, EDIC

Before moving to the UK in 2010, Dr Grecu completed her medical university studies and postgraduate training in both Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine in Bucharest, Romania, where she also worked as a substantive consultant for over 5 years in a big academic, trauma and emergency hospital. After working for a period as locum consultant at University College London Hospital, she joined the Hampshire Hospitals NHS Trust and has been a  substantive consultant since 2015, covering flexibly most anaesthetic lists and ICU.

Her main interest is clinical nutrition; she holds a PhD in peri-operative nutrition and is a recognised international expert in the field. At present, she is the ICU Follow up clinic lead, the clinical governance lead for RHCH ICU and the Associate Clinical Director for Research (Surgical Division).

Dr Joe Masters MBChB, BSc, FRCA

Dr Masters studied medicine at the University of Bristol and qualified in 2006. His postgraduate training in anaesthesia was based in Wessex and London where he completed advanced training in obstetric anaesthesia and he was appointed as a consultant anaesthetist at the Royal Hampshire County Hospital in 2020. In addition to his clinical interests, he is passionate about medical education and organises the teaching programme for the novice anaesthetists at Hampshire Hospitals Foundation Trust.

Dr Marcus Peck MRCP FRCA EDIC FFICM

Dr Marcus Peck graduated from University College London Medical School in 1998 and worked in all the acute specialities, gaining MRCP, before starting his career in anaesthesia and intensive care medicine. He is proud to be a consultant in both specialities at Royal Hampshire County Hospital, having joined in 2023. Prior to this he spent 11 years working in the same roles at Frimley Park Hospital, where he was heavily involved with the Trust Safety Team, performing serious incident investigations. However, he is best-known for being a passionate point-of-care ultrasound trainer. He teaches and speaks widely, has edited a major textbook on the subject, and chaired multiple national committees that established world-class training and quality assurance programmes.

Dr Tom Peck  MB BS, BSc, FRCA

Dr Tom Peck qualified from the London Hospital Medical College in 1992. His anaesthetic training was based in Wessex and the Channel Islands and concluded with a fellowship in Ann Arbour, Michigan, USA doing transplant and major vascular anaesthesia. He continues his speciality interest in vascular anaesthesia holding an honorary contract at the University Hospital, Southampton.

His other speciality interest is total intravenous anaesthesia and he has developed the Wessex total intravenous training course. He is the lead author of a best selling undergraduate anaesthetic pharmacology textbook and has created online educational material for trainee anaesthetists. He lectures on the Wessex primary and final FRCA courses.

Dr Rory Riddell MBChB MRCP FRCA FFICM

Dr Riddell is a consultant in critical care and anaesthesia at Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and works across both Winchester and Basingstoke sites. He graduated from the University of Bristol in 2009 and thereafter trained in Bristol, Devon, and South Wales. He is a keen educator, teaches on a variety of courses and is an Advanced Life Support instructor. His interests include critical care echocardiography, major colorectal surgery, and regional anaesthesia.

Dr Stephen Townley BSc, MBBCh, MRCP, FRCA

Dr Townley, born in Liverpool, studied Medicine at the University Of Wales, College of Medicine, qualifying as a doctor in 1993. He trained as an Anaesthetist in Wessex and Perth, Western Australia becoming a Fellow of the Royal College of Anaesthetists in 2002. He runs the pre-operative assessment clinic at the Royal Hampshire County Hospital where he has worked as a Consultant Anaesthetist since 2005.

Dr Arun Venkataraju MB BS, MD, FRCA, EDRA

Dr Venkataraju completed his medical training from the Madras Medical College, Chennai (2001) and his MD in Anaesthesia from one of the most prestigious medical universities in India, the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in New Delhi (2004). He moved to the UK in 2006, and completed his anaesthetic training in the North-West. He holds advanced training in Paediatric & Regional anaesthesia and completed his European Diploma in Regional Anaesthesia (EDRA) in 2012.

He was appointed as a consultant in Anaesthesia, Hampshire Hospitals NHS Trust, Basingstoke & Winchester in 2014 and is currently the clinical lead for the anaesthetic department at the Royal Hampshire County Hospital, Winchester. He is member of faculty on numerous regional anaesthesia courses in the UK.

Dr Geoff Watson MB BS, DA, DipMedEd, FRCA

Dr Stephen Wimbush MBChB, FRCA, DICM(UK), CertMedEd

Dr Wimbush completed his undergraduate medical training at the University of Cape Town in 1995 before moving to the UK in 1998. He worked in Truro and Exeter before completing his postgraduate training in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine in Bristol. He has advanced training in both Intensive Care Medicine and Paediatric Anaesthesia and in 2005 obtained his Diploma in Intensive Care Medicine. 

His main academic interest outside anaesthesia is in medical education. He obtained a Certificate in Medical Education from Bristol University in 2006 and is currently an Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer at the University of Southampton. After spending a little over a year as a consultant in Bristol, he was appointed as a consultant in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine at the Royal Hampshire County Hospital in 2007, where he continues to undertake his NHS practice in both anaesthesia and critical care. In addition to his work at the Royal Hampshire County Hospital, Dr Wimbush is currently the Clinical Chair at Sarum Road Hospital, and in 2021 was appointed as the Medical Lead of the Thames Valley and Wessex Adult Critical Care Network.