Dr Helen Eagleton

I am a Consultant Haematologist working at Stoke Mandeville Hospital and BMI The Chiltern. I qualified in 1994 as a junior doctor in Newcastle then worked at the Royal Marsden Hospital as senior house officer in Oncology. I completed 5 years as a registrar in Haematology at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford. 1 year of this was in the Leukaemia Research Laboratory. After passing exams to become a member of the Royal College of Physicians and a fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists I was appointed Consultant Haematologist at Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust in 2003. In the NHS I have held several leadership roles in the past 15 years: Clinical Director for Pathology, Trust Research Lead, Foundation Training Programme Director, Lead for Teenage and Young Adult Cancer, Clinical Director for Haematology & Oncology and I am now Associate Medical Director and Clinical Chair for the Division of Specialist Services.

All aspects of general and malignant Haematology I see and treat people with abnormal blood counts e.g. high or low haemoglobin (anaemia), white cells or platelets I give advice regarding thrombosis (blood clots), anticoagulation and bleeding disorders I also diagnose and treat people for blood cancers such as Myeloma, Lymphoma and Leukaemia.  If chemotherapy is required this can be administered in the chemotherapy day unit at BMI The Chiltern with the support of the Haematology Specialist nurse and chemo nurses or some patients prefer to have treatment in their own home