•Philip Sayers. BSc CHT
Managing Director/Therapy Provider

Philip J Sayers is founding shareholder and Managing Director of London Hyperbaric and Wound Healing Centres Ltd. He is the Registered Provider of London Hyperbaric Medicine and the East of England Hyperbaric Unit in Great Yarmouth. Prior to establishing the company on 2000, Philip worked in the design, manufacture of military diving equipment currently in service with the German and Swedish armed forces. In the mid nineties his business expanded to include the design and installation of clinical Hyperbaric therapy facilities from his base in Bremen Germany.

Philip graduated from Swansea University in 1976 with a BSc joint honours degree in Oceanography and Marine Biology. Following his graduation he worked on research projects with Cambridge University in the Red Sea and spent two and a half years with the British Antarctic Survey on the island of South Georgia.

Born in Jersey Channel Islands, Philip relocated to England in 2001 and now lives in North Essex. He is currently responsible for overseeing operations of the UK's leading provider of NHS-based Hyperbaric and Wound Healing Centres.

• Dr. Steve Harrison. FRCA

Steven Harrison is a consultant anaesthetist at Whipps Cross hospital and the medical director of the London Hyperbaric and Wound Healing Centre. He under took his anaesthetic training with Barts and the London SpR rotation, during which time he completed a 6-month attachment to the Hyperbaric unit at Whipps Cross, supervised by Dr Martin Hamilton-Farrell who pioneered HBO at Whipps Cross. He is particularly interested in late radiation tissue damage.

• Patricia Wooding.

Ms Patricia Wooding has worked at Whipps Cross University Hospital since 1985. She has been the hyperbaric administration and accounts manager for our unit since 2002. She is a qualified book-keeper, first aider and has regular BLS training. Since 2003, she has been the treasurer/membership secretary for the EUBS Society and has also worked as the book-keeper for the Whipps Cross University Hospital Medical Education and Research Trust for the last 12 years. She was the runner up at the Medical Secretary Awards in 2003, for her presentation of “Innovation within the NHS” She was invited to a garden party at Buckingham Palace for the celebration of 50 years of the NHS. In her spare time, she is a qualified diver.

• Vindra Swanscott. RGN CHRN.

Vindra Swanscott qualified as a RGN in 1984 and has worked as an anaesthetic sister for over 17 years in various hospitals in and around London. She has worked in Hyperbarics and wound care since 2001. She has qualifications in wound care and leg ulcer management. She has been the clinical nurse manager of the Whipps Cross Hyperbaric unit since 2004. In 2005 she helped set up the wound care facility at the Unit. In 2007 she passed the baromedical nurses board (US) Certified Hyperbaric Registered Nurse exam (CHRN). She is also registered with the National Board of Diving and Hyperbaric Medical Technologists in the United States as a CHRN. She also lectures and acts as a consultant to medical, technical staff and organisations on wound care. She also acts as an NVQ assessor for Whipps Cross hospital.

• Dr. Elliot Singer. MBBS MRCGP

Dr Elliott Singer is a general practitioner and hyperbaric physician.  Dr Singer has been working at the Whipps Cross hyperbaric unit since 2002.  He is an honourary lecturer at Barts and Royal London Medical College.  He is currently the Chair of the British Hyperbaric Association. He is also a HSE approved medical examiner of divers (AMED)

• Dr. Andreas Stehr.

Dr Andreas K Stehr is an Honorary Consultant in Anaesthesia and Critical Care at London Hyperbaric Medicine based at Whipps Cross University Hospital, where he works as a full time Hyperbaric Physician since 2007. Trained in Germany he has been involved in diving and hyperbaric medicine at Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany since 2003 and completed the European Modules (ECHM) for diving and hyperbaric medicine in 2007. Andreas is an approved referee of the UK Sports Diving Medical Committee and - apart from diving related injuries and emergencies- mainly interested to promote the use of HBOT for elective indications.

• Dr. Oliver Sykes.
Hyperbaric Physician

HSE Approved Medical Examiner of Divers.

UK Sports Diving Medical Committee Referee.

• Dr. Pilar Zien-Sanchez.

Hyperbaric Physician.

• Dr.Neil Rice.

Hyperbaric Physician and Anaesthetist.

• Steve McKenna CHT DMT.
Hyperbaric Supervisor.

EFR/DAN/BSAC Instructor.

•Lee Griffiths CHT.
Hyperbaric Supervisor

• Elizabeth Hales. BSc RGN CHRN

Elizabeth Hales has been a RGN since 2000 receiving her Bsc from South Bank University in 2005. She has previous experience as an Intensive Care Nurse as well as in acute elderly care. Elizabeth has worked in the field of Hyperbaric Oxygen since 2002 where she has gained experience and qualifications in Transcutaneous Oxygen Monitoring and wound care. In 2007 she passed the baromedical nurses board (US) Certified Hyperbaric Registered Nurse exam (CHRN). She is also registered with the National Board of Diving and Hyperbaric Medical Technologists in the United States as a CHRN. She routinely lectures to both medical and technical staff on wound care and hyperbaric medicine.

• Claire Lashmar.
Nurse/Attendant/Operator

• Helen Aedy.
Nurse/Attendant/Operator

• Peter Loh.
Nurse/Attendant/Operator

• Joyce Paul.
Nurse/Attendant/Operator

• Ronnie Andrews.
Nurse/Attendant/Operator

• Sabine Stehr.
Nurse/Attendant/Operator

• Tom Sheridan. CHT
Attendant/Operator/Chamber technician

• Alan Stone.
Attendant/Operator

• Jane Stevens.
Hyperbaric Supervisor.

PADI/DAN/EFR Instructor.