Shrewsbury Hospital Consultant recognised in Queen’s Birthday Honours

Dr Nigel O’Connor has been awarded an MBE for his services to the healthcare profession.

Dr O’Connor joined the NHS in 1977 after he completed his training, and has been with what is now The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust since 1989.

He was born in South London in 1953 and began his career in medicine in 1971 when he joined St Thomas’ Hospital, London, as a medical student. He completed his training in 1977 and began to work on the house at St Thomas’ before spending three years focussing on Internal Medicine. He worked in Norwich for two years, latterly as a Medical Registrar, which was when he decided to specialise in Haematology.

The Haematology Unit at RSH was named after Dr O’Connor in September 2013 in recognition of his work but also because he had the vision to start fundraising for the unit nearly 15 years ago.

Adrian Osborne, Communications Director at The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust, said: “In my time with the Trust, I have received such warm and glowing praise for Dr O’Connor from so many of his patients and their relatives.

“If our Honours system is there to recognise people who transform the lives of others, then Dr O’Connor is certainly one of those people.”

Julia Clarke, Director of Corporate Governance at the Trust, added: “Dr O’Connor was pivotal in helping us build the Lingen Davies Centre, which opened at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital in the autumn of 2012, as he spearheaded a fundraising campaign which raised over £1 million.

“Without his personal contribution to the fundraising effort, it would have been much harder to deliver the project as successfully as we did.

“I am delighted that Dr O’Connor’s efforts have been recognised.”