A BOLTON consultant is to take a lead role in the education and training of the region's newly qualified doctors.

Mr John Adams, consultant on the accident and emergency department at the Royal Bolton Hospital, has been made associate dean in post graduate medicine at the University of Manchester.

The appointment will mean Mr Adams will spend half of his working week in Manchester and the rest of the time on the A&E unit at the Royal.

Mr Adams will be responsible for the supervision and education of all doctors after they qualify. For the past five years Mr Adams has been responsible for the training of doctors in A&E medicine in the North-west.

Mr Adams, who has worked on the front line of A&E medicine in Bolton for 11 years, said: "Far from abandoning ship, I shall still be working on the unit for part of the week on both a clinical and managerial basis," he explained.

Bolton's A&E unit will now be staffed with two part time consultants and one full time. An advert for one more full time consultant post is about to appear in the medical press.

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