Dr Craig Montgomery

Qualifications

MBBS, FRCA, FFPMRCA, FHEA, PGcertClinEd, PGCertNeuromod

GMC number: 6134986

Practising since: 2006

Specialties

Pain Management Anaesthesia

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About

Dr Montgomery is a highly experienced Pain Medicine consultant who holds a substantive NHS position at The Leeds Teaching Hospitals. Here he manages a comprehensive range of pain-related conditions and provides a wide array of services from assessment and advice to complex interventions, including pain injections, radiofrequency denervation and neuromodulation. He also works for Harrogate and District Foundation Trust supporting their Living with Pain service and Leeds Community Healthcare providing interventions, such as epidurals, for their spinal treatment service for acute sciatica.

Dr Montgomery has an interest in medical education and is an Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Leeds. He is the national examination preparation lead for the Faculty of Pain Medicine and is a member of their educational sub-committee. He actively supports a large pain medicine research portfolio in Leeds and is an expert adviser for NICE and the MHRA.

Dr Montgomery has four young children which keeps him very busy outside work and he enjoys running, cycling and the Yorkshire countryside when time allows.

Dr Montgomery is a firm believer in patient-centred care and aims to reduce pain and its secondary effects to allow patients to start living again.

Special interests

Chronic Pain.

Treatments and tests offered by Dr Craig Montgomery at Nuffield Health

  • Chemical Sympathectomy
  • X-Ray Guided Facet Joint Injection
  • Trigger Point Injections
  • Epidural injection for pain relief
  • Sacroiliac joint injections
  • Facet joint injections
  • Stellate ganglion blocks
  • Nerve blocks
  • Dorsal root ganglion block

Locations Dr Craig Montgomery works with

Related experience

Memberships

  • Faculty of Pain Medicine of Royal College of Anaesthetists

Other posts held

  • The Leeds Teaching Hospitals Consultant in Anaesthesia and Pain Medicine
  • Harrogate and District Foundation Trust Honorary Consultant in Pain Medicine
  • Leeds Community Healthcare Honorary Consultant in Pain Medicine

Insurers Dr Craig Montgomery works with

Dr Craig Montgomery works with the following private medical insurance providers:

  • Allianz
  • Aviva Health
  • AXA Health
  • Healix
  • Cigna
  • Healix
  • Simplyhealth
  • Vitality Health (Pru Health)
  • Westfield Health WPA
  • WPA

Declaration

Dr Craig Montgomery does not hold a share or financial interest in this hospital, another Nuffield Health hospital or the company.

Dr Craig Montgomery does not have a share or financial interest in equipment used at this hospital or another Nuffield Health hospital.

Dr Craig Montgomery does not hold any paid advisory role(s) at this hospital or on behalf of Nuffield Health.