Dr Nicola Helen Chaderton
23/01/1959 - 30/08/2010
Place of birth: Wallasley, Wirral, Merseyside
Nationality: British
CRN: 525963
Also known as: Nicky
Education and qualifications
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General education |
West Kirby Grammar School; Newcastle University |
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Primary medical qualification(s) |
MBBS, Newcastle, 1982 |
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Initial Fellowship and type |
FC Anaes by Examination |
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Year of Fellowship |
1989 |
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Other qualification(s) |
DA(UK), 1987 |
Professional life and career
Postgraduate career
Nicky was a Wessex anaesthetic trainee and was appointed consultant anaesthetist in Portsmouth in 1996.
Professional interests and activities
Her interests were reflected in membership of the AAGBI, The Wessex Association of Children’s Anaesthetists, The Local Children’s Network of Anaesthetists, The Difficult Airway Society, & The British Association of Day Surgery. She was also an instructor for ALTS, APLS, PEARS & SPEARS courses, and educational supervisor for part-time and Foundation Year trainees. Locally she was Clinical Governance lead from 2003, and an effective departmental chair (2005-9). Nicky was a popular and much respected colleague who combined considerable clinical, teaching & administrative duties with her family responsibilities using great efficiency and good humour.
Other biographical information
Nicky married Rob Richards, a consultant orthopaedic surgeon in Porstmouth, in 1989, but continued to practise as ‘Chaderton’. They had five children (Katherine, Claire, Alex, Emma & Meagan) whose ages at the time of writing (2017) range from 25 to 19, and lived in Wickham, Hampshire where Nicky was a governor of the local primary school.
Author and sources
Author: Robert Julian Palmer
Sources and any other comments:
Information from her husband, Rob Richards