Our Team

Network Groups

Working together

The network fosters collaborative working across organisations including primary, community, secondary and tertiary care and local commissioners. This collaborative approach creates a network configuration more closely aligned to the patient’s pathway than traditional organisational boundaries and enables co-operative working and collective responsibility in the commissioning and provision of equitable, high quality and effective services.

To ask a question to any of our network team please use our contact page.

Stephen is a Consultant Spinal Surgeon in Bristol and Clinical Director of Severn Spinal ODN. After completing his orthopaedic training in the Bristol region, he undertook specialist spinal fellowships in Brisbane, Australia and Great Ormond Street Hospital, London. He also achieved a postgraduate diploma in Sports and Exercise Medicine. He was appointed as Consultant in Spinal Surgery in 2014 at Southmead Hospital, Bristol and Bristol Royal Hospital for Children. He is an experienced trainer and teacher and has been a member of faculty on national and international courses.

Network Manager

Victoria Gill

Vicky joined the Severn Spinal Operational Delivery Network in January 2023, replacing Ryan Doherty as Network Manager.

Vicky is a physiotherapist by background, with many years of experience working as a senior clinician within an in-patient spinal service.  She, therefore, has first-hand experience working directly with spinal patients, clinicians, and the wider teams in order to achieve the best possible outcomes for spinal patients.

Vicky’s previous role was the Allied Health Professions (AHP) Clinical Workforce Fellow for Health Education England (HEE) South West, providing strategic leadership across a regional footprint.

Network Coordinator

Currently Vacant

Network Allied Health Professional

Patrick Shaughnessy

Patrick joined the Network team in April 2021 as the Lead AHP for Quality Improvement and Education. He aims to bring support to education, innovation and quality service improvement to enhance working practice and standards of evidence-based care, specific to spinal patients throughout the Severn region.

Patrick is a Chartered Physiotherapist who has worked at Southmead Hospital (North Bristol Trust) since April 2019 and in this time has worked with the Orthopaedic Spinal Team as a ward Physiotherapist. He has skills in treating elective spinal surgery patients and trauma patients such as spinal fractures and spinal cord injuries, whilst also having a special interest in non-specific low back pain. In his time here, Patrick has completed a number of QI projects within the Physiotherapy team which have positively impacted on the spinal services.

Patrick is just finishing a masters qualification in spinal disorders and alongside inpatient spinal surgery has an interest in sports physiotherapy, having previously worked at Liverpool FC Academy.