Dr. Hanlie Du Plessis

Dr. Hanlie Du Plessis


She has established herself as an expert in a variety of anaesthetic techniques as well as anaesthetic monitoring modalities. Her work covers a wide range of caring for patients in the elective and emergency setting which often includes planning the peri-operative care and risk assessment of high risk patients.

She has enjoyed taking on management responsibilities throughout her medical career. As a consultant she has contributed at a local and a national level. She is currently the lead for her on call group Morbidity and Mortality review as well as the Lead for Anaesthesia in Ophthalmology.

She is also on the management committee for the Nuffield Department of Anaesthetic Consultants (NDAC)

In her previous posts, she was instrumental in developing the role and rotas of the resident consultant anaesthetists as well as acting as spokesperson. At a national level, she was a committee member of the Scottish Airway group (2010-2012) and Scottish Acute Pain Society (2008-2015).

During her training career she was a trainee representative at hospital and national level. As senior registrar, she was chairperson of the anaesthetic trainees’ committee and regularly represented trainee views and issues (2007-2008).


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