Medical Director and Director of Infection Prevention & Control

Dr Virginia Clough

Dr Clough commenced her role as Medical Director and Director of Infection Prevention & Control in April 2008.

She was appointed as the first consultant haematologist in Chester in 1984 and she progressively developed the laboratory and clinical service, working single handedly until 1993. The department now has three consultants and a Mersey Specialist Registrar, to whom Dr Clough is the educational supervisor. Dr Clough became examiner for the Royal College of Pathologists in 2002 and in 2006/7 helped write the new national examination. She has been a Medical Staff Committee representative on the Clinical Excellence Awards Committee since 2000.

Dr Clough has been a passionate fundraiser, culminating in the opening of the state of the art Haematology & Oncology Suite in May 2007, financed entirely by the B Positive fundraising campaign.