Mr Duncan Drury

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Duncan Drury is a Consultant Vascular and Endovascular Surgeon at Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospital, where he has been a consultant since 2012. He has 15 years of experience in the management of varicose veins using minimally invasive techniques and has treated over 2500 patients with minimally invasive venous procedures.

He undertook his surgical training in South Yorkshire, gaining a wide experience in open and endovascular techniques of both arteriesarteries and veins. During his training Duncan undertook fellowships in Doncaster and Leeds, gaining endovascular expertise in both aortic and peripheral arterial disease, complex renal access procedures and minimally invasive venous techniques.  His training was completed with an advanced fellowship awarded by the Vascular Society, in Vascular and Endovascular Aortic Surgery at the Liverpool Vascular and Endovascular Service.

Duncan is the Lead for Amputee and Carotid services at Doncaster Vascular Services. His particular areas of interest include endovascular aortic aneurysm repair, complex hybrid vascular access procedures and hybrid reconstructions for peripheral arterial disease. Beyond his clinical work, Duncan has a passion for both training and quality reassurance and improvement. He is a member of the faculty on numerous courses including the nationally recognised Doncaster Intermediate Surgical Skills Course, Endovascular Aneurysm planning course and an advanced endovenous management course. He is also the clinical lead for undergraduate education in the vascular and thoroughly enjoys training both undergraduate and postgraduate students. He has also been a member of the FRCS Vascular exam writing committee for 4 years.

Duncan was previously the Clinical Lead for Vascular Surgery but resigned from this post after 3 years to undertake a more senior role in clinical governance in his Trust. Duncan has been the Division of Surgery and Cancer Clinical Governance lead for the last 3 years and before this was the Clinical Governance Lead for the Specialist Services Division for 5 years. He is currently responsible for managing quality assurance in all surgical, endoscopic and cancer services in the Trust and has gained invaluable experience leading a team of medical, nursing, allied health professionals and lay personnel.

Duncan is also active in research in Doncaster and is the Principle Investigator for the department on a number of multicentre studies. He is a member of the Vascular Society and the British Society of Endovascular Therapy.  Duncan submits patient outcome data of all vascular procedures to the National Vascular Registry and can demonstrate excellent results.

Outside work Duncan enjoys music, cycling and walking with his young family. He is an accomplished flautist and is currently trying to teach his daughter the recorder and his son, the flute, with varied success!