Dr Neel Desai is a lead consultant anaesthetist and is expertly proficient in regional anaesthesia, that is the provision of anaesthesia leading to numbness and pain relief to a specific part of the body, and total intravenous anaesthesia, which is the type of general anaesthesia resulting in an improved recovery for you following your procedure or surgery. Importantly, he has an outstanding reputation for providing patients with effective and safe care that is focused on them, individualising their pain relief so they remain comfortable. Neel is particularly interested in the education and training of undergraduate medical students and postgraduate trainees, and in those initiatives and recommendations which improve and safeguard the patient experience, journey and their overall safety. He has been involved in research that strives to question how we may provide the best possible anaesthesia for our patients, is on the editorial board of an internationally renowned journal and has been invited to speak on various subjects at national and international conferences.