Dr Neil Collighan

Professional Profile

Dr Collighan believes that all pain management strategies should be a combined medical, interventional and psychological approach to ensure optimum results and patient wellbeing.  He has been trained in the more complex interventional procedures including spinal cord stimulation and intrathecal drug delivery devices.

Dr Collighan has recently developed a private multidisciplinary Spinal Cord Stimulation service for the County of Kent, in particular for chronic pain post spinal surgery, Complex Regional Pain Syndrome and chronic peripheral (leg and/or arm) neuropathic pain.

Higher specialist training in pain management was undertaken in the Yorkshire School of Anaesthesia.  In July 2009 he was appointed as a consultant for the East Kent University NHS Foundation Trust in anaesthesia, intensive care and chronic pain management. Dr Collighan’s current NHS commitments are spread between the QEQM hospital, Margate and the Kent and Canterbury Hospital, Canterbury.  He also worked as an honorary Consultant at Guys and St. Thomas’ Pain Management and Neuromodulation Service(2018-19).

Dr Collighan is Consultant for Pain Services in East Kent Hospitals NHS Trust and has chaired national level pain guideline development groups.  He is an elected Council member of the British Pain Society with a liaison role for NICE and the Interventional Pain Medicine special interest group.

He is one of 4 national representatives for NHS England Specialised Pain Clinical Reference group.

Memberships & Associations

• The Royal College of Anaesthetists
• The Association of Anaesthetists British Medical Association
• The International Association for the Study of Pain The British Pain Society (Treasurer of Interventional Pain Management Special Interest Group)
• The Neuromodulation Society of the United Kingdom and Ireland
• The European Society of Regional Anaesthesia and Pain Therapy
• British Pain Society
• NICE liaison for NHS England Specialised Pain Services Clinical Reference Group
• General Medical Council