Tom is a consultant anaesthetist at Musgrove Park Hospital, Somerset NHS Foundation Trust and clinical lead for Perioperative Medicine for the Somerset Integrated Care System. He graduated from Bristol University and did his anaesthetic training across the Southwest with a perioperative fellowship in Western Australia. His interests include anaesthesia for major abdominal surgery, pre-screening & optimisation, shared decision-making and postgraduate education.

He has been developing a patient-centred perioperative medicine service for the last four years. Somerset Foundation Trust is one of the first in the UK to establish pre-screening and optimisation of patients as soon as they are listed for surgery. He believes that the greatest improvements for surgical patients in the next ten years are to be found outside the operating theatre.