Miss Fiona MacNeill

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Experience: More than 40 years of experience
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About

Miss Fiona MacNeill is a highly achieved and pioneering consultant oncoplastic breast surgeon in the London area where she practises at her private clinic and with the NHS. Originally specialising in general surgery, Miss MacNeill is now a specialist in all things related to the breasts, breast surgery, and breast cancer. Some of her top focuses are rapid access and diagnosis of breast problems, oncoplastic breast surgery (including reshaping and remodelling), breast reconstruction, risk reducing breast surgery, and second opinions.

Qualifying in 1983 from St Bartholemew’s Hospital and receiving awards in her education, Miss MacNeill was later appointed as a consultant in 1996 with the Colchester NHS. Here she established a considerably successful breast unit, which she led until moving to The Royal Marsden NHS in 2006. Since then, Miss MacNeill has continued being a groundbreaker by practising novel drugs and treatments, leading prominent associations of breast surgery, and working with the best of partnering departments to provide the highest quality care and results for her patients.

Miss MacNeill is still involved in local and national research trials, striving to achieve the optimum results for patients. She also continues to lecture world-wide, training physicians and surgeons on delivering modern breast cancer care by the evolving role of breast surgery in the treatment of breast cancer, as well as the importance of working with a multidisciplinary team and having a treatment plan. Miss MacNeill is an advisor to multiple Department of Health committees and is a steady member of various associations and societies; one of these is the Association of Breast Surgery, where Miss MacNeill sits as the chairman of the education and training committee.

Furthermore, Miss MacNeill is the National Clinical Lead for the Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) Programme, which is a standard setting and quality improvement programme for the NHS. Previously, she was the Breast Tutor at the Royal College of Surgeons of England to educate the future generations of breast surgeons by establishing the UK sentinel lymph node training programme and oncoplastic surgery portfolio. This was the first General Medical Council recognised curriculum for breast surgery training.

Miss MacNeill presently practises at the private London Breast Clinic and the Royal Marsden NHS.

Education

• Vice president, Breast Division, European Union of Medical Specialists (UEMS) (present)• Miss MacNeill acts as an advisor to a variety of charities and Department of Health committees.
• President, Association of Breast Surgery (2015 to 2017)
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List of Treatments

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Work Experience

• More than 40 years of experience• Consultant oncoplastic surgeon, The London Breast Clinic (1996 to present)
• Consultant breast and reconstructive surgeon (oncoplastic), The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust (2006 to present)• National clinical lead, Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) Programme (present)• Consultant surgeon, Colchester Hospital NHS Trust (1996 to 2006)
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Special Interest

• Benign breast disease• Breast abscess drainage
• Breast care advice and counselling • Breast cyst aspiration• Breast disease• Breast oncology• Breast reconstruction• Breast screening and assessment of screening abnormalities• Core biopsy• Cosmetic surgery• Cytological assessment• Familial breast cancer• Fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC)• Lump assessment• Mastalgia (breast pain)• Nipple biopsy• Nipple discharge analysis• Oncology• Oncoplastic breast surgery (re-shaping/remodelling)• Radiotherapy• Rapid access and diagnosis of breast problems• Reconstructive surgery• Risk reducing breast surgery• Second opinions• Surgical excision of lesions where appropriate
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