Key People

I am a Consultant Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgeon in the West Midlands and currently head of the Postgraduate Virtual Environment.’

I am Professor of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at Oxford University, and Head of School of Surgery in NHSE WTE Thames Valley. In addition, I am Head of the Clinical Academic Graduate School at Oxford University. I have a keen interest in surgical education, and the National Online Training Programme Harmonisation is a brilliant opportunity for me to contribute to national surgical training. I am delighted to have recruited an excellent team of surgical educators to this programme. We have a shared vision of bringing high quality surgical education to all of our trainees. I look forward to seeing the new innovations that this talented group of surgeons will create.

Mr Nick Carleton-Bland graduated from St George’s Medical School University of London with distinction; he holds a first-class honours degree from the University of Leeds and a Master’s degree from Manchester Business School. He underwent basic surgical training in London and was appointed to a national training number in Neurosurgery in 2009. He has trained in San Francisco, Sydney and in four neurosurgical units in the Northwest of England. He was admitted as a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 2015 and has completed a two-year complex spinal neurosurgery fellowship.

Since being appointed as a Consultant Neurosurgeon at The Walton Centre in 2017, Nick Carleton-Bland has run a fulltime clinical practice alongside an educationalist practice in undergraduate and post-graduate settings.  He is an Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer at the University of Liverpool, Deputy Director of Medical Education at the Walton Centre and is the Training Program Director of Neurosurgery for the Cheshire Mersey region. He is a JCST SAC member, an Expert Advisor for NICE on Robotic Surgery,  as well and a JCIE examiner on the FRCS(Neuro.Surg).   He is a national human factors trainer, an international neurosurgery lecturer (EDISC) and was nominated for the prestigious National ASiT ‘Silver Scalpel’ award 2023. He won the postgraduate ‘Excellence in Education’ award 2020 from the North West School of Surgery and the national teaching award from Association for Perioperative Practice 2019.  

Nick is committed to education and has special interest in the use of blended learning techniques including simulation, VR, AR and artificial intelligence.  He hopes to make the GAIN program a central pillar of the neurosurgical community, not just creating high quality training, but developing a trainee community across Great Britain and Ireland

I am Professor of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at Oxford University, and Head of School of Surgery in NHSE WTE Thames Valley. In addition, I am Head of the Clinical Academic Graduate School at Oxford University. I have a keen interest in surgical education, and the National Online Training Programme Harmonisation is a brilliant opportunity for me to contribute to national surgical training. I am delighted to have recruited an excellent team of surgical educators to this programme. We have a shared vision of bringing high quality surgical education to all of our trainees. I look forward to seeing the new innovations that this talented group of surgeons will create.