{"id":64,"date":"2025-11-24T17:06:05","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T17:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emanaesthesia.org.uk\/staging\/?page_id=64"},"modified":"2026-03-12T20:35:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T20:35:26","slug":"leicester-royal-infirmary","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/emanaesthesia.org.uk\/staging\/our-sites-2\/leicester-royal-infirmary\/","title":{"rendered":"Leicester Royal Infirmary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\nLeicester Royal Infirmary\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the LRI\n\n\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Leicester Royal infirmary is a large hospital (approx 1000 in patient beds) that has a central operating department, maternity unit, intensive care unit and satellite areas of anaesthesia provision. The specialist areas have their own consultant on call rotas. The department has approximately 70 consultants and specialists supported by many residents (approx 60) and LEDs: The central operating department has 17 theatres and covers the following surgical specialties \u2013 plastics and trauma, max fax and ENT, upper and lower GI, general emergencies including some gynaecology, urgent orthopaedics (includes some spines) and paediatrics. The majority of these are tertiary referral specialties. Satellite areas include 3 ophthalmic theatres, angiography and radiology (including regular MRI GA sessions) theatres, assisted fertility, community dental and paediatric oncology sessions. There are many high-risk outpatient assessment clinics to cover the specialties we serve. The maternity unit is a tertiary centre with a delivery rate that fluctuates from about 6000 to 6500 deliveries per year. We are the East Midlands lead for abnormally adherent placentas (acreta). The Intensive care unit has a direct take from the Emergency Department and has staffing for a dependency of approximately 25 over 28 physical beds. Our ICM consultants also have regular sessions in central operating. The hospital is a level 2 trauma centre and we transfer out major neurosurgery to local centres<\/span>.<span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: rgb(89, 89, 89);\"><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"><font color=\"#737373\"><\/font><\/span>\n\n\n\n\n\nTraining Modules\n\n\n\n\nHead and Neck\n\n\n\nGeneral Anaesthesia\n\n\n\nNovice training\n\n\n\nTrauma\n\n\n\nPaediatrics\n\n\n\nObstetrics\n\n\n\nAcute and Chronic Pain\n\n\n\nICM\n\n\n\nEmergencies\n\n\n\nGynaecolpogy\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKey people\n\n\n\n\nChris Allsager &#8211; Clinical Director\n\n\n\nAkeeban Maheswaren &#8211; Head of Service (Anaesthesia)\n\n\n\nSimon Scott &#8211; Head of Service (ICM)\n\n\n\nAndrew Ling \/ Dorothea Morfey &#8211; College Tutors\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTips\n\n\n\n\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 14px; color: rgb(89, 89, 89); font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;\">The Leicester Royal Infirmary is a short walk away from the city centre including many shopping opportunites (High Cross), entertainment venues (e.g the Curve Theatre), restaurants and pubs (5-15 mins).\u00a0 Across the road from the hospital is the home of the Leicester Tigers RUF Club (Welford Road) and the home of Leicester City FC (King Power Stadium).<\/span><div><br><\/div><span style=\"font-size: large; color: rgb(127, 127, 127);\"><\/span>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<span style=\"font-size: 14px; color: rgb(89, 89, 89);\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uhleicester.nhs.uk\/\">Website<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><font color=\"#737373\"><\/font><\/span>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53,"parent":710443,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-64","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emanaesthesia.org.uk\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emanaesthesia.org.uk\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emanaesthesia.org.uk\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emanaesthesia.org.uk\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emanaesthesia.org.uk\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/emanaesthesia.org.uk\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/64\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161,"href":"https:\/\/emanaesthesia.org.uk\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/64\/revisions\/161"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emanaesthesia.org.uk\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/710443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emanaesthesia.org.uk\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emanaesthesia.org.uk\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}