Mr Eyal Schechter

Mr Eyal Schechter is a Consultant Adult and Paediatric ENT Surgeon. He has been a consultant since 2021 and treats the full range of ENT conditions in both adults and children. His areas of specialist interest include ear disorders, hearing loss, balance and dizziness, as well as paediatric ENT. He is the lead for inherited hearing loss and balance and dizziness at Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust, where he is also involved in setting up a state-of-the-art balance testing and rehabilitation suite at Bedford Hospital.

Mr Schechter performs hundreds of surgical procedures each year. These include adenotonsillectomy, grommet insertion, septoplasty, and balloon sinuplasty for chronic sinusitis. He also undertakes more advanced operations such as eardrum and hearing mechanism repairs, mastoid surgery, sinus surgery, and functional endoscopic sinus surgery. His expertise extends across a wide range of clinical areas including allergy, rhinology, otology, neurotology, paediatric otolaryngology, head and neck pathology, sleep disorders, snoring, laryngology, and voice disorders.

He grew up in Cambridge and completed his undergraduate medical training in Manchester. Following this, he undertook a paediatric surgery themed basic surgical training programme before embarking on specialty registrar training in Otolaryngology across the East of England. His training concluded with an Otology and Implant fellowship at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge, where he was awarded the COVID Star in recognition of his work during the pandemic.

Alongside his clinical practice, Mr Schechter holds professional leadership roles. He has served as the clinical site lead for the rollout of the electronic patient record system at Luton and Dunstable Hospital. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and remains actively engaged in advancing ENT services within the NHS and private practice.

He currently practises at Spire Harpenden Hospital, Chase Lodge Hospital in London, and within Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust, where his NHS posts include Luton & Dunstable University Hospital and Bedford Hospital.