Dr Mark Platt MA FRCA – a consultant anaesthetist at Southampton General Hospital. He trained in Cambridge, London, Oxford and Southampton, and is clinical lead for risk management.

He and Mr Latham do operating lists together every week at the Spire Southampton and Wessex Nuffield Hospitals . Mark will see you when you are admitted for your operation and will discuss the anaesthetic technique with you.

Often it will be a spinal anaesthetic and sedation, which means that you will be totally unaware of what is happening during the operation without the general anaesthetic ‘hangover’.