- Acute Medicine
- Anaesthetics
- Audiology
- Behçet’s Syndrome National Centre of Excellence
- Bereavement Services
- Best Start Programme
- Birmingham and Midland Eye Centre
- Blood tests
- Bowel Cancer Screening
- Breast Screening
- Breast Unit
- Cancer Services
- Cancer Support Services
- Cardiology
- Care management
- Children’s Community Nursing
- Children’s Community Therapies
- Clinical Toxicology
- Colposcopy
- Community rehabilitation
- Community Respiratory
- Community Wards
- Connected Palliative Care
- Continence
- Critical Care
- Dermatology
- Diabetes
- District nursing
- Ear, nose and throat
- Elderly Care
- Emergency Department
- Female Genital Mutilation Service
- FINCH Service
- Foot Health
- Gastroenterology
- General Surgery
- Gynaecological cancer
- Gynaecological Cancer – Genetic Testing
- Gynaecology
- Health Visiting
- Heart failure
- Homeless Team
- Imaging
- Immunology and allergy
- Infant Feeding Team
- Infection Control
- Integrated Care Services (iCares)
- Lung Health Checks
- Maternity
- Neonatal Unit
- Neurology
- Neurophysiology
- Nutrition and Dietetics
- Occupational Health and Wellbeing
- Orthotics
- Paediatric Allergy Service
- Paediatrics
- Pain Management
- Parkinson’s Disease Service
- Pathology
- Pharmacy
- Physiotherapy (Community Musculoskeletal) Service
- Plastic Surgery
- Poisons
- Post-Menopausal Bleeding Clinic
- Rehab Wards
- Research & Development (R&D)
- Respiratory
- Respiratory Physiology
- Rheumatology
- Sandwell Sexual Health Services
- School Nursing
- Sickle Cell & Thalassaemia
- Speech and Language Therapy
- Stroke Care
- Tissue Viability
- Transition and Young People
- Trauma and Orthopaedics
- Urogynaecology
- Urology
- Vascular Day Surgery
- Volunteer Service
- Wheelchair services
- Young Parents Maternity Service
- Acute Medicine
- Anaesthetics
- Audiology
- Behçet’s Syndrome National Centre of Excellence
- Bereavement Services
- Birmingham and Midland Eye Centre
- Blood tests
- Bowel Cancer Screening
- Breast Screening
- Breast Unit
- Cancer Services
- Cancer Support Services
- Cardiology
- Children’s Community Nursing
- Clinical Toxicology
- Colposcopy
- Community Wards
- Connected Palliative Care
- Critical Care
- Dermatology
- Diabetes
- Ear, nose and throat
- Elderly Care
- Emergency Department
- Female Genital Mutilation Service
- FINCH Service
- Gastroenterology
- General Surgery
- Gynaecological cancer
- Gynaecological Cancer – Genetic Testing
- Gynaecology
- Health Visiting
- Homeless Team
- Imaging
- Immunology and allergy
- Infection Control
- Integrated Care Services (iCares)
- Lung Health Checks
- Maternity
- Neonatal Unit
- Neurology
- Neurophysiology
- Nutrition and Dietetics
- Occupational Health and Wellbeing
- Orthotics
- Paediatric Allergy Service
- Paediatrics
- Pain Management
- Parkinson’s Disease Service
- Pathology
- Pharmacy
- Plastic Surgery
- Poisons
- Post-Menopausal Bleeding Clinic
- Rehab Wards
- Research & Development (R&D)
- Respiratory
- Respiratory Physiology
- Rheumatology
- Sandwell Sexual Health Services
- Sickle Cell & Thalassaemia
- Speech and Language Therapy
- Stroke Care
- Transition and Young People
- Trauma and Orthopaedics
- Urogynaecology
- Urology
- Vascular Day Surgery
- Volunteer Service
Respiratory
The respiratory department has well established services in lung cancer diagnostics, tuberculosis, sleep and non-invasive ventilation, interstitial lung disease, bronchiectasis, asthma, COPD and other aspects of general respiratory medicine.
We have developed an endobronchial ultrasound, thoracoscopy (a minimally invasive surgical procedure) and pleural catheter service, and are a recognised centre for multi-drug resistant tuberculosis. We work closely with allied specialties and tertiary referrals to provide specialist services to include home antibiotic services for bronchiectasis, anti Immunoglobin E (Anti-IgE) injections for asthma, disease modifying therapies for sarcoidosis and other interstitial lung disease, as well as advanced respiratory physiology testing.
A daily “inreach” is provided to our medical assessment units allowing prompt respiratory care for patients.
Team
Mike Lang
Head of Respiratory Physiology
Dr Guy Hagan
Speciality Lead Consultant
Yasir Malik
Service Manager
Jacqui Moore
Matron
Consultants
Dr Imtiaz Ahmed
Lung cancer, community respiratory, general respiratory
Dr Zia Ansari
Lung cancer, non-invasive ventilation and sleep medicine, general respiratory
Dr Usman Maqsood
Tuberculosis, lung cancer, EBUS, pleural disease
Dr Bonnie Menezes
Bronchiectasis, lung cancer, general respiratory
Dr Nazim Nathani
Tuberculosis, sleep disorders, non-invasive ventilation
Dr Arvind Rajasekaran
EBUS, lung cancer, interstitial lung disease, asthma
Dr Adeel Sahal
Asthma, pleural disease, general respiratory
Dr Diana Kavanagh
General Respiratory/ COPD
Dr Suhaila Mendes
Lung cancer / Bronchiectasis
Dr Natarajan Swaminathan
Lung Cancer/General Respiratory and Sleep Medicine
Dr Sayed Alderazi
TB, General Respiratory, lung Cancer
Locum Consultants
Dr Ashfaq Hussain
Lung Cancer/General Respiratory and Sleep Medicine
Dr Mahzooz Qasim
General Respiratory, ILD, Community
Visiting thoracic surgeons from Heartlands
Respiratory specialist nurses
Asthma/COPD
Ann Findley
Prisca Sagota
Tina Mytton
Tracey Foley
Interstitial lung disease (ILD)
Sarah Evans
Lung cancer
Sharron Newbold
Nuala Walters
Joanna O’Dwyer
Ella Guinto
Tuberculosis
Joy Chidawu
Ryan Allen
Samantha Metcalfe
Rishpal Chana
Sophie Fox
Respiratory Physiology
Amina Mohammed
Services
We offer a full range of diagnostic tests including
Endobronchial Ultrasound (EBUS)
Thoracoscopy
Sleep studies and acute/domicillary NIV
Advanced respiratory physiology including cardiopulmonary exercise and mannitol challenge
We offer services in the full range of respiratory disorders including chronic cough, COPD, asthma (including biologic therapy), bronchiectasis including patients on long term nebulised antibiotics, sleep apnoea and home non-invasive ventilation, tuberculosis, non-tuberculous mycobacteria and multi-drug resistant tuberculosis, sarcoid and other interstitial lung diseases and investigation of suspected lung cancer.
Patient Stories
Read about our patients below:
Great grandad who underwent a double lung transplant will throw a fundraising dinner to say thank you for his care
A great grandad who underwent a double lung transplant will throw a fundraising dinner to say thank you for his care.

Michael Willis (second from right) and his wife Patricia with our respiratory team.
Michael Willis, aged 60, who suffers from the rare lung condition sarcoidosis, was given just six months to live – unless he had the major operation.
He was cared for by consultant respiratory physician Dr Arvind Rajaskaran at City Hospital, Birmingham, who was determined to save his patient. He worked with the Royal Papworth Hospital to find a donor and Michael had surgery in June last year at the Cambridge-based hospital.
Read more here.
Patient Information
Here you can find a resources for patients and those interested in the service. Please note this area is a work in progress and a number of leaflets are currently being updated.
Contacts
To contact us, please call the following numbers:
Sandwell Hospital – 0121 507 4587/3920
City Hospital – 0121 507 4586/4576