Ben is a Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine and Home Ventilation in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and the clinical lead of the North East Assisted Ventilation Service. He trained in critical care in the North East of England and Oxford. His critical care interests are acute non-invasive respiratory support and sepsis. Within home ventilation, his interests are tracheostomy ventilation, secretion management and palliative care in MND, and the respiratory and perioperative care of neuromuscular patients. He is also the Trust sepsis lead. He is the chair of the critical care specialist advisory group of the British Thoracic Society.