Doctor Gerard Furlong was trained at St Bartholomew's Hospital and successfully graduated in 1992. Since then he has had a fulfilling career working in several hospitals in England and Northern Ireland treating thousands of patients along the way.

The anaesthetist’s role in providing a high level of health care to patients cannot be over stated. In his role as an anaesthetist Ged Furlong had a wide range of duties and responsibilities to the patients that were under his care. These duties included the pre-operative evaluation and assessment of patients, tailoring an individual program of anaesthesia for each patient, consultation with the surgical team who were to perform the operation and post-operative care of patients

Because anaesthetists are perioperative physicians they have the opportunity to work within a range of different disciplines within the medical profession. Over the course of his career the anaesthetist Gerard Furlong has had the chance to work on the Trauma ward at Dunganon hospital, in the ICU at Coventry and Warwick hospital and also on the obstetrics ward there. During his career Doctor Gerard Furlong came to realise that his true love was working on the obstetrics ward. He discovered that he had a real talent for giving epidurals to women who were undergoing the rigours of childbirth.

During his career Ged Furlong has never stopped studying and is a member of several professional societies. As a member he is a regular contributor of articles to newsletters and journals and has attended many conferences both as a speaker and as a guest. His expert knowledge of the field of anaesthesia has been put to use in several research projects most recently on an implementation guide for HL7 CDA for SCATA.

Ged has a number of interests including travel and sailing in the Lake District.