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Annakan joins national NHS programme to improve ENT care

We’re delighted to announce that Mr Annakan Navaratnam has been appointed as a national advisor for ENT with the NHS England improvement programme Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT). Alongside his private practice, Annakan is an ENT consultant surgeon at the Royal National ENT Hospital, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and an honorary consultant at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children.

Annakan, who is also the England representative on the British Rhinology Society council, is now working with the GIRFT ENT team to help reduce the number of long waiting adult and paediatric patients across England.

“I am ecstatic to have been appointed to the ENT Clinical Leadership team for the Getting It Right First Time programme. We have a fantastic opportunity to further develop new models of care to ensure that patients across the country receive high quality care,” comments Annakan.

The GIRFT programme aims to improve the treatment and care of patients through in-depth review of services, benchmarking, and presenting a data-driven evidence base to support change. Clinical leads across more than 40 workstreams undertake reviews of their specialty, examining how things are currently being done and how they could be improved.

9 December 2024/by MR ANNAKAN NAVARATNAM

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Mr Annakan Navaratnam speaks at British Rhinology Society annual meeting

Mr Annakan Navaratnam is regularly invited to speak at conferences, both here in the UK and abroad. Illustrating his active involvement in training the next generation of surgeons, Annakan delivered the Keynote Lecture on leadership in surgical training to the Pan London ENT trainee meeting on the 15th April.

The 9^th May was a big date in the UK’s rhinology diary as the annual meeting of the British Rhinology Society took place in Cardiff. The BRS meeting is the most established national meeting covering both rhinology and nasal plastics and this year Mr Sam Warburton, a Welsh rugby legend and the former captain of the British and Irish Lions, delivered the Storz Invitational Lecture.

At the meeting, Annakan delivered a keynote lecture on the present & future use of AI in Rhinology and appeared on a panel discussing selection criteria for septoplasty assessment and listing for surgery.

He was also delighted to be voted on the council at the British Rhinology Society as a national representative for England at the meeting.

Finally, on 22^nd May, Annakan delivered a multidisciplinary teaching session with anaesthetic colleagues at UCLH on airway emergencies at the Airway Hub meeting.

13 June 2024/by MR ANNAKAN NAVARATNAM

Annakan joins national NHS programme to improve ENT care

Mr Annakan Navaratnam speaks at British Rhinology Society annual meeting

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