Richard Matthew Haywood MBBS, FRCS

Mr. Richard was an undergraduate at St Thomas’s Hospital, London. He trained as a Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeon throughout the UK and was appointed as a Consultant Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeon at Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital in 2005. His broad surgical training and reconstructive practice covers all areas of surgical anatomy. Combined with his passion for teaching in 2017 he was delighted to be able to take up the post as Clinical Senior Lecturer and Head of Anatomy at Norwich Medical School in the University of East Anglia , whilst continuing his clinical work at NNUH. Richard’s clinical work covers reconstructive microsurgery, breast reconstruction, complex perineal reconstruction, skin cancer, sarcoma and trauma.

He was a member of BAPRAS Council for 3 years and is BAPRAS workforce lead for Plastics Surgery in the UK. He is once again Service Director of the Norfolk and Norwich Plastic Surgery Department and has previously been Chairman of the Surgical Division at NNUH. He has over 40 publications in peer review journals and is a regular international speaker on microsurgery. Outside of medicine he can be found playing about in his garden with his grown up tonka toys (tractors, logsplitters, chainsaws etc) or looking for golf balls in the rough – as he is rarely see on the putting green itself.