Dear ALL,

As you probably know I will be retiring at the end of this Month. My successor will be Mark Bowditch who is an Orthopaedic Surgeon at Ipswich, was previously the T&O TPD and is also current chair of the T&O SAC so he knows pretty much what he is going to be facing – I wish him well with the many fascinating challenges the training programmes provide.

I have enjoyed my time as Head of School and hope I have helped maintain and improve our regions surgical training over the years. There are many issues on the horizon (or old ones that have simply not yet been resolved) and I will do my best to brief Mark on where we are in trying to resolve them – I had hoped to sort out most of them before standing down but new things do come along all of the time and that goal definitely hasn’t been achieved!.

Thank you all for your help and support over the past many years. I have enjoyed working with all of you.

Regards

Neville Jamieson