Professor Claire Hopkins: Ear, nose and throat surgery
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Professor Claire Hopkins

Ear, nose and throat surgery

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About me

Claire Hopkins in a Consultant ENT Surgeon and Professor of Rhinology (diseases of the nose and sinuses). She manages all conditions relating to the nose, including inflammatory (e.g. sinusitis and rhinitis, or hayfever), structural problems (deviated septum or nasal deformity), cosmetic rhinoplasty, anterior skull base lesions and sinonasal tumours. After graduating from Oxford University Medical School with a First Class Degree in Physiology and Distinctions in Medicine, she undertook specialist ENT training in London. She undertook a Fellowship in Advanced Rhinology at Guy's and St Thomas', where she was appointed as an NHS Consultant.
She has an extensive research portfolio, and was recently appointed as a Professor of Rhinology at King's College, London. Claire lectures nationally and internationally, and teaches on the faculty of sinus surgery, anterior skull base and many other courses.
She is on the Council of the British Rhinological Society, the European Rhinologic Society, and the Rhinology Section of the Royal Society of Medicine. She is the Chair of the Audit group of ENT-UK, represents ENT-UK on a patient safety panel at the Royal College of Surgeons, and Chaired the UK Commissioning Guidance Group for Sinusitis. She has written international guidelines on the management of sinusitis and nasal polyps.
Claire has been awarded a National Clinical Excellence Award in recognition of her contribution to NHS work

Areas of interest

Rhinology (nasal disorders); Medical management of acute and chronic sinusitis including nasal polyps; Sinus procedures incl. endoscopic sinus surgery, balloon sinuplasty,
Management of nasal obstruction and deformity including Rhinoplasty / nose surgery and septal surgery; turbinoplasty
Rhinitis and nasal allergy;
Anterior skull base surgery; sinonasal tumours
Management of nasal trauma
General ENT; tonsillectomy, adenoidectomy

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Procedures completed

  • E1780

    Diagnostic endoscopy of sinus and bilateral (as sole procedure) - (>50)

    (>50) (5-50)

  • E1480

    Endoscopic exploration frontal sinus beyond frontoethmoid recess and bilateral - (5-50)

    (1-5) (1-5)

  • E2500

    Diagnostic nasolaryngopharyngoscopy +/- biopsy as sole procedure - (5-50)

    (5-50) (1-5)

  • E0360

    Septoplasty of nose (including attention to turbinates) - (5-50)

    (1-5) (1-5)

  • E1500

    Operation(s) on sphenoid sinus (including endoscopic) and bilateral - (5-50)

  • E1360

    Endoscopic balloon dilation frontal sinuplasty and bilateral - (5-50)

  • E2501

    Fibre optic examination of the pharynx +/- biopsy/removal of foreign body - (1-5)

    (1-5)

  • E1470

    Median drainage of frontal sinus (modified Lothrop procedure) and bilateral - (1-5)

  • E0380

    Nasal septum cauterisation (and bilateral) - (1-5)

    (1-5) (1-5)

  • W2620

    Manipulation under anaesthesia of fractured nose (as sole procedure) - (1-5)

    (1-5)

  • E1380

    Endoscopic balloon dilation spheniod sinuplasty and bilateral - (1-5)

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