our team

Dr Christoph Seifert is a Consultant Pain Specialist and Foundation Fellow of the Faculty of Pain Medicine of the Royal College of Anaesthetists. He specialises in the accurate diagnosis and treatment of neck, back and related nerve root pain.

Further areas of his specialist expertise include the management of Complex Regional Pain Syndromes (RSDs) and the use of Botulinum Toxin for muscular pain and migraines. He is regularly involved in the treatment of sportsmen and women, particularly the members of the British Equestrian Team.

His philosophy is that early diagnosis and minimally invasive interventional therapy substantially reduce the likelihood of disability.

Although qualifying as a consultant anaesthetist, for the last decade Dr Dominic Aldington has decided to focus his time entirely on pain management. He is an expert in the management of both acute and chronic pain including migraine.

He has more than 75 publications to his name include in the New England Journal of Medicine, the American Journal of Public Health, the British Medical Journal , the Cochrane Database and the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.

He has presented at meetings throughout the world including Florida, Washington DC, Montreal, Las Vegas, Japan and throughout Europe.

He is a member of the British Pain Society and the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP). He is the vice-chairman of the IASP Special Interest Group on the Pain of Torture, Organised Violence and War.

Having served in the Royal Army Medical Corps for more than 2 decades he was the Subject Matter Expert in Pain to the Surgeon General and was responsible for organising pain relief from the point of injury until a the casualty left the service. This saw him working at the Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre at Headley Court and the Royal Centre for Defence Medicine in Birmingham.

He is currently the chairman of the Medical Advisory Committee for COBSEO and the Surgeon General’s Advisor of Veterans’ Health and is involved in the development of pain clinics for military veterans.

He has worked as a consultant in pain medicine in Oxford where he was the clinical lead for a period. He now works in Winchester where his is the current clinical lead for pain management in the Hampshire Hospitals NHS Trust.

He also sees patients at BMI Hampshire Clinic and BMI Sarum Rd.

Dr Michael Husband is a Anaesthesia and Pain Management consultant specialising in the diagnosis and treatment of chronic pain.

Michael completed his postgraduate pain medicine training in Barts Health NHS Trust in London with exposure to advanced pain management techniques.

Michael is interested in the multidisciplinary approach to pain medicine with a focus on reducing the burden of unnecessary pain medication.

In addition to the Nuffield hospital, Michael delivers inpatient pain management at St Richard’s Hospital, Chichester where he is involved in training and teaching pharmacists, hospital doctors and GP’s. He has developed an acute and chronic pain service to St Richards Hospital and works with the Sussex Community Trust Pain Team based at Bognor Memorial Hospital.

Michael has three young children and lives in West Sussex with his wife who is also an anaesthetist.

Professional memberships: Royal College of Anaesthetists; British Pain Society; International Association for the Study of Pain,