Department of Perioperative and Critical Care
Freeman Hospital
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE7 7DN
United Kingdom
 | joe.cosgrove@nhs.net |
Dr Cosgrove graduated from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1988 and began his career in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine at the then Sunderland General Hospital (now Sunderland Royal Hospitals) in 1991. Thereafter (part through chance and part through Sir Kenneth Calman and conversion of Registrars to Specialist Registrars) he has remained in the North-East aside from 12-months as a Senior Fellow in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care in New South Wales (Newcastle; inevitably!) He was appointed to his current post in 2000 where he has been Intercollegiate Board Tutor and is now Critical Care Outreach lead, with a developing interest in pre-emptive discussions about intensive care admission. He is also a Member of the Board of Examiners of the Royal College of Anaesthetists and has recently been a member of the CCrISP Steering Committee, RCS Eng. (completing the third re-write of the course in 2016.)
Other medical interests include Events Medicine: he is Chair of the Medical Advisory Group for Durham County Cricket Club and between 2009 and 2011 has assisted the England and Wales Cricket Board on medical contingency and major incident planning for international cricket matches. July and August 2012 saw him working as a volunteer crowd-doctor for the London Olympic Games at the Olympic Stadium Stratford, London. He currently Chairs the National Events Medicine Advisory Group (NEMAG) and represents them at the Faculty of Pre-Hospital Care, RCS Edin and the DHSC Events Healthcare Working Group.
He was Chair of the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine's End of Life Working Party (2017-19) and Chair of Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals Deciding Right Implementation Group (2017-21)
Other medical interests include Events Medicine: he is Chair of the Medical Advisory Group for Durham County Cricket Club and between 2009 and 2011 has assisted the England and Wales Cricket Board on medical contingency and major incident planning for international cricket matches. July and August 2012 saw him working as a volunteer crowd-doctor for the London Olympic Games at the Olympic Stadium Stratford, London. He currently Chairs the National Events Medicine Advisory Group (NEMAG) and represents them at the Faculty of Pre-Hospital Care, RCS Edin and the DHSC Events Healthcare Working Group.
He was Chair of the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine's End of Life Working Party (2017-19) and Chair of Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals Deciding Right Implementation Group (2017-21)
