Course
Tuesday 12th May 2026
SOP ENT PM
Speakers: Mr Okechukwu Okonkwo, Mrs Tira Galm, Mr Charlie hall, Mr Chris Gordon
2.45-3.15pm break
3.15-4.30pm session 2 – TG and CH
Topics:
1. OO - smell and taste disorders and managing the blocked nose
2. CG- national tinnitus guidance and referral guidance for audiology
3. TG- vasculitis and chronic rhinosinusitis
4. CH - 2ww and chronic throat symptoms
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1. Develop an understanding of smell and taste disorders. Assessment and management strategies for patients presenting with a blocked nose.
2. Review national guidance on tinnitus, including appropriate referral pathways and criteria for audiology services.
3. Develop understanding of ENT vasculitis and when to suspect this in primary care, and chronic rhinosinusitis, including the principles around presentation, diagnosis, and management.
4. Discussion and review of the two-week wait referral pathway and it's inclusion criteria
5. Develop an approach to assessing and managing patients with chronic throat symptoms
About the speaker
Mr Okechukwu Okonkwo
Consultant Otolaryngologist GHNHSFT
Mr Okonkwo has completed 2 internationally recognised fellowships. The first in London in aesthetic and reconstructive surgery with a focus on rhinoplasty and skin cancers. The second in complex sinus disease and anterior skull-base surgery.
He has set up the South West of England's first smell and taste disorders clinic in conjunction with the Fifth Sense charity.
His areas of expertise include:
Complex sinus surgery
Rhinoplasty and Facial plastics
Allergy and Hayfever
Smell and taste disorders
Skin cancer of the head and neck
Local anaesthetic ENT surgery
General ENT
About the speaker
Mrs Tira Galm
Consultant Otolaryngologist ( Rhinologist), GHNHSFT
Mrs Galm did her ENT training in Glasgow and the West Midlands with a fellowship training in advanced rhinology at the University of Birmingham.
Her clinical interests include paediatrics, ENT, facial plastics, skin cancer and rhinology.
Conditions treated:
chronic rhinosinusitis
skin cancer
paediatric ENT
septal deviation
Procedures performed:
All aspects of paediatric ENT
Sinus surgery
Septoplasty
Rhinoplasty
Facial plastic (skin cancer)
About the speaker
Mr Charlie hall
Consultant Head and Neck surgeon, GHNHSFT
Mr Hall qualified as a doctor in 1995 from St Bartholomew's Hospital, London. He attained specialist accreditation with the General Medical Council in 2009 following 8 years of specialist training in Bristol, Gloucester and the South West. In 2008 he undertook a one year fellowship in Head and Neck Cancer and Thyroid surgery in Melbourne, Australia. He returned in 2009 to take up his current NHS consultant appointment in Gloucestershire.
Whilst Mr Hall practices general ENT treating a wide range of conditions in all age groups, his specialist interest is in throat, voice and swallowing problems and neck conditions including thyroid problems.
Mr Hall was educated at Epsom College and St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical school.
Other interests
Head and neck conditions
Throat, voice and swallowing problems
Thyroid
Medical Education and training
Skin cancer
About the speaker
Mr Chris Gordon
Audiology and Vestibular Testing lead, GHNHSFT
After qualifying as an audiologist in 1989, I worked in various roles both within and outside of the NHS, with an interest in training. My area of special interest is adult rehabilitation. I’m currently Audiology and Vestibular Testing lead
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