Chest Clinic Secretarial Team

Pauline Gough                      Vikki Elwell
Secretary to DR MS Hendy          Secretary to DR JF O'Reilly

Elaine James                        Joanne Ingham

Secretary to Dr. E. Li Kam Wa      Secretary to Dr. SA Hussain

Each Consultant Physician has a personal secretary who provide a comprehensive secretarial, administrative and information service to the  team.

This includes liaising with patients and their relatives, GPs, other members of the department, wards, internal departments and external organisations.  Their main areas of responsibility also include dealing with urgent clinic appointments, investigations and investigation results, domiciliary visits and organisation of the consultants' diaries. The secretaries manage the waiting list for bronchoscopies and use of the hospital computer system as well as word processing. Each has a specialist role:

Pauline Gough

Vikki Elwell

  • Liaison with The Lung Function Department in the running of the Sleep Service including the management of a computerised waiting list for inpatient investigations.


  • Systems administration for the Chest Clinic database which includes sleep disorders, lung cancer, asthma, COPD,  pulmonary rehabilitation, cardiopulmonary exercise and interstitial disease.


  • Involvement in the development of the Chest Clinic database with Dr O'Reilly, Lung Function Department and the software company.

  • Liaison  with GPs directly to facilitate fast track referral of lung cancer patients.


  • Prompt transcription of referral letters from the cancer clinic to consultant cardiothoracic surgeons / consultant clinical  oncologists.


  • Collation of results  from investigations to expedite further management of cancer patients.

Elaine James

  • Support to the Respiratory Nurses and the LTOT clinic. 


  • Liaison with the community Health Visitor in The management of TB patients and process their contacts' x-rays.


  • The maintenance and updating of the TB database.


  • Compiling clinic letters for patients who have attended for BCG vaccination.

Joanne Ingham

  • Log requests for bronchoscopies on a daily basis.


  • Management of daycase bronchoscopy theatre list for all 4 Consultant Physicians.

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