The head and neck unit at the NNUH performs an average of 100 free flaps per annum for reconstruction of a variety of defects following cancer extirpation and to mitigate the effects of prior treatment. The unit has a unique multidisciplinary approach to the specialty with maxillofacial, ENT and plastic surgeons working and interacting in a harmonious and mutually respectful manner. We have access to a range of adjuncts including CAD/CAM planning for mandibular/maxillary resection and reconstruction, implantable doppler monitoring, venous couplers and harmonic scalpel. Our ENT surgeons are looking forward to the delivery of a new robot later this year for transoral robotic surgery. At any one time two plastic surgery registrars work on the firm together with a recently appointed microsurgical fellow. The unit has been recognised for TIG training in head and neck surgery, and has a senior trainee in post.

Martin Heaton graduated from Nottingham University Medical School in 1992. Basic surgical training followed in the North West of England followed by two years of research into the development of reconstructed skin culminating in the award of an MD from the University of Sheffield. A number of locum registrar posts followed before appointment to the Trent Regional Training Scheme rotating through Nottingham, Leicester and Sheffield. After fellowships at the Pulvertaft Hand Centre, Derby, The Royal Marsden Hospital and microsurgical fellow/senior registrar at the Royal Adelaide Hospital, South Australia, Martin was appointed locum consultant plastic surgeon in Leicester specialising in breast recontruction. In 2010 Martin was appointed a substantive consultant plastic surgeon at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital where he was free to pursue his passion for head and neck and skin cancer surgery. Currently training programme director for plastic surgery in the East of England, Martin was recently appointed to the panel of examiners for the FRCS(PLAST) exam. When not wielding a scalpel Martin enjoys tending his bees, growing exotic plants, assembling computers, experimenting in his shed and attempting to keep three teenage offspring on the straight and narrow.

Plastic Surgery Consultant in East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust since 2014. Subspecialty in Wrist and Hand Pathology. Educational Supervisor since 2015.

After leaving Portsmouth Grammar School and a gap year in Australia, I studied at Barts and The London  Medical School graduating in 1996. I then undertook house jobs and core training between The Royal London Hospital, Essex and St George's before undertaking a full-time 2 year MD at the Blizard institute. After a successful application to the PanThames rotation I worked at Chelmsford, Royal London and Imperial before spending time in New York and Munich. Fortunate enough to by awarded the McGregor Gold Medal in 2007, I then did an aesthetics fellowship at St Andrew’s before being appointed as a consultant there in 2009. 

At present we have 24 consultants 6 elective theatres, 4000 trauma cases, surpra-regional burns unit and all areas of plastic surgery apart from complex cranio-facial. 

I now am based in Chelmsford with a peripheral clinic in Colchester. My firm performs the usual general plastic commitments for skin cancer etc., but with a subspecialty in breast reconstruction microsurgery and lymphedema. I have introduced CT angiography, venous coupler and fluorescent angiography to the unit while raising funds for a limb measurement Perometer. 

I have a registrar and microsurgical fellow who have ample opportunity to perform  microsurgery procedures and will be taken through rib-sparing approach to IMAs, DIEP/MS-TRAMs, SIEA and TUG flaps. I am committed to encouraging WBAs and engagement with the ISCP process. In this unit, there is a strong ethos of teaching via weekly journal club and Thursday teaching plus supervision in theatre. In the region repatriated Chelmsford into the East of England, increasing the number of registrars to 31. We have re-organised the unit teaching, regional audit and introduced a comprehensive cadaveric teaching programme at the Evelyn Centre. 

Beyond work I feel this is a great area to live with access to excellent cycling, running and shooting venues plus excellent restaurants and country pubs. Families are well served with excellent schools and villages to live while being within 40 mins of London. 

Mr. Javaid is a consultant plastic and reconstruction surgeon at the Lister Hospital in Stevenage

Mr Javaid graduated from medical school in 1988. In the intervening years, he has engaged in vast additional training for plastic in various hospitals in UK.While he was working on his training, Mr. Javaid had bestowed upon him both fellowship awards of the FRCS (Plast), or Royal College of Surgeons in Plastic Surgery, and the FRCS, or Fellowships of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glassgow.

Mr. Javaid has laboured in a great number of teaching hospitals. These include all of the following: Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, Addenbrooke's Hospital Cambridge, Royal London Hospital, and Birmingham University Hospital.He won National Oncoplastic Breast Reconstruction Fellowship. This was jointly organised by the British Association of Surgical Oncology and the British Association of Plastic Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons.

Besides this, he also finished a cosmetic surgery fellowship that was both accredited and extremely competitive at the Wellington Hospital in London. While studying and working here, Mr. Javaid was privileged to work alongside and under a group of the country's best cosmetic surgeons in order to advance his facial cosmetic surgery training.

In this NHS practice at Lister Hospital in Stevenage, he offers highly qualified procedures in breast reconstruction, general plastic surgery, skin cancer surgery, and aesthetic breast surgery. He has been actively involved in teaching and training for plastic surgery trainees over the years as a senior consultant.  He is one of the educational supervisor for EOE deanery trainees posted at Lister Hospital Stevenage.

Nick Sheppard was trained at Oxford University medical school before completing basic surgical training in London and Australia and specialist training in Plastic Surgery in the Eastern deanery. He undertook specialist training through an orthoplastic hand fellowship. His sub-specialty is hand surgery in which he manages acute and chronic soft-tissue disorders, peripheral nerve and tendon surgery along with wrist pathology including scaphoid non-union, osteoarthritis and post-traumatic degenerative conditions.

He also chairs the diagnostic sarcoma MDT at NNUH, overseeing the diagnostic pathway and performing surgery for resection and reconstruction of sarcoma cases, particularly in the upper limb.

Away from work he can be found with his family, playing music or in his workshop trying to stay on the right side of the machinery.