Dr Beverley Watson is a consultant anaesthetist at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital Kings Lynn, Norfolk. She qualified from University College Hospital, London in 1986 and trained in anaesthesia in Northampton and East Anglia.

Beverley’s job plan includes sessions in critical care, colorectal surgery, obstetrics, trauma and day surgery. She has been interested in diabetes since her first house job in general medicine and diabetology at the Whittington Hospital and, as Lead Clinician for Day Surgery in Kings Lynn, has encouraged day surgery management for patients with diabetes for over 10 years. Beverley co-authored the new NHS Diabetes guidelines: ‘Management of adults with diabetes undergoing surgery and elective procedures: improving standards’.