Dr Jitka Slesingrova 
Consultant Anaesthetist

Email: JSlesingrova@uk-sh.co.uk

After finishing her studies at Charles University in Prague, Dr Slesingrova started her professional career at the Regional Hospital in Usti nad Orlici, gaining a first and second degree in anaesthesia and intensive care, as well as specialising in emergency and disaster medicine.

Dr Slesingrova has experience of all types of anaesthesia: theatres, blocks, spinal and epidural and general anaesthesia. She continued further education in anaesthesia and accident and emergency.

Having been appointed head of the anaesthetic and intensive Care Department in the Regional Hospital in Rychnov nad Kneznou, Dr Slesingrova then began working abroad in Africa and the United Kingdom.

Dr Slesingrova joined UK Specialist Hospitals as Consultant Anaesthetist in April 2009.

Professional Experience

2009—present     Consultant Anaesthetist, UK Specialist Hospitals, UK
2008—2009     Trust Doctor, Lancashire Teaching Hospital, Royal Preston Hospital, Preston, UK
2007—2008     Consultant Anaesthetist, Teaching Hospital Prague, Motol, Czech Republic
2007—2007     Consultant Anaesthesiologist and Medical Director, Gulu Independent Hospital, Gulu, Uganda
2003—2007     Consultant Anaesthesiologist, Vysoke Myto, Accident and Emergency, Czech Republic
1995—2003     Head of Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Rychnov nad Kneznou, Czech Republic
1979—1995     Anaesthesiologist, Hospital Usti nad Orlici, Czech Republic

Special Interests

• General anaesthetics, epidural and spinal anaesthesia, peripheral nerve blocks
• Pain control management

- Last updated March 2011