Consultant in Paediatric and Adolescent Oncology/BMT at the Great North Children’s Hospital, Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle upon Tyne since January 1996. Honorary Professor of Childhood Cancer, Northern Institute of Cancer Research, Newcastle University. Qualified in Birmingham in 1983, trained initially in general paediatrics and then in paediatric haematology/oncology in Newcastle and in BMT at Minneapolis, USA. Longstanding interest in late effects of treatment for childhood cancer, long-term follow-up care and survivorship; PhD (Newcastle 1995) based on chemotherapy-related nephrotoxicity. Member of CCLG Late Effects Group since 1992 (chair 2016-21). One of the three instigators and founding members in 2008 of PanCare (Pan-European Network for Care of Survivors after Childhood and Adolescent Cancer). Member of Core Group of International Late Effects of Childhood Cancer Guideline Harmonization Group since 2010