Find:

  • |
  • |

Consultant Profile

Dr James Ramsay

Name:
Dr James Ramsay MBChB MRCP
Practising at:
Spire Harpenden Hospital
Specialties:
  • Respiratory Medicine
    • Lung Cancer
    • Lung disease
    • Asthma
    • Chest Medicine
Special clinical interests:

Lung cancer, cough, airways disease including asthma and COPD, pleural disease, intestinal lung disease

Research interests:

Lung cancer and cough

Current NHS and /or university posts:

Consultant Physician, Luton and Dunstable NHS Foundation Trust

Year of first medical qualification:
1996
Current membership(s) of professional, national and regional bodies:

Royal College of Physicians
British Thorasic Society

 
Contact Details 
Telephone number to make a private appointment:
0800 585 112
Private secretary:
Beverley Gardner
Private secretary telephone number:
01582 497236
Private secretary email address:
Personal email address:
Availability:
Friday afternoons
 
Background Information 
Professional profile:

Dr Ramsay provides a comprehensive respiratory outpatient practice at Spire Harpenden Hospital. He has access to excellent diagnostic facilities including a full repertoire of imaging and detail physiological studies including full lung function and sleep studies. He is thorough, has high clinical standards and responds to all requests on an urgent basis.

He trained in Leeds at the internationally renowned St James's teaching hospital. He successfully completed higher training in both respiratory and general internal medicine and completed sub-speciality training in lung cancer, airways disease, intestinal lung disease, pulmonary infection including tuberculosis and brochiectasis, sleep medicine, ventilation, cough and pulmonary vascular disease.

His NHS practice is based at the Luton and Dunstable Hospital where he looks after in-patients and carries out fibreoptic bronchoscopy. He is the lead for lung cancer and mesothelioma. He works closely with primary care, bridging the boundaty between primary and secondary care. His reputation is such that his expertise is regularly drawn upon for the purpose of training. He has access to interventional thorasic radiology services, thorasic surgery and oncology.

 

Personal profile:

Away from medicine his interests include travel, food, art, design and fashion.

Find a Hospital

Select from the menu above or enter a postcode below
Click on the map, select from the menu above or enter a postcode

Find by Postcode

Please enter details below to find your nearest hospital

     

Back to map

Find a Consultant

Use one or more of the options below to search for relevant consultants, then click on each name to read their detailed Spire profiles.

Name

Find a Treatment, Test or Scan

Select from the drop down list, enter a keyword, or use our interactive body map to locate treatments and procedures for each part of the body.

OR

Keyword

© Spire Healthcare Limited (2010)