Dr. Timothy Chapman

Dr Tim Chapman is a Consultant Respiratory Physician providing private respiratory care at Pinehill Hospital. He offers prompt assessment, diagnosis and treatment for the full range of respiratory conditions, combining evidence-based medicine with a thorough, patient-centred approach.

Patients have rapid access to comprehensive respiratory investigations including advanced lung function testing, sleep studies, bronchoscopy, endobronchial ultrasound (EBUS), thoracic ultrasound and CT imaging, allowing timely diagnosis and treatment planning.

Alongside his private practice, Dr Chapman is Deputy Medical Director, Clinical Director for Respiratory Medicine and Clinical Lead for Cancer at Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. These senior leadership roles reflect his commitment to delivering high-quality clinical care while leading service development and innovation across the Trust.

Dr Chapman graduated from Guy's and St Thomas' Medical School before completing specialist respiratory training at several internationally renowned centres, including St George's Hospital, The Royal Marsden Hospital and The Royal Brompton Hospital in London.

He was awarded the prestigious Darzi Fellowship in Thoracic Oncology and Medical Leadership at The Royal Marsden, alongside executive leadership training through the University of Leeds. He also holds a Master's degree with Distinction in Allergy from Imperial College London, completed during his time at The Royal Brompton Hospital, where he developed specialist expertise in asthma, allergy and chronic cough.

Dr Chapman remains actively involved in clinical research, with publications in peer-reviewed international journals and presentations at national and international scientific meetings. He is committed to medical education and continues to teach undergraduate medical students and postgraduate doctors.

Outside medicine, Dr Chapman enjoys spending time with his wife and four children and, when family life permits, skiing and other outdoor pursuits.

Clinical Interests

Dr Chapman manages all aspects of adult respiratory medicine, including:

• Persistent and chronic cough
• Asthma and difficult-to-control asthma
• Allergy and hay fever
• Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
• Bronchiectasis
• Interstitial lung disease and pulmonary fibrosis
• Lung cancer and investigation of lung nodules
• Breathlessness
• Respiratory infections
• Sleep apnoea and other sleep-related breathing disorders
• Pleural disease
• Pulmonary vascular disease

His particular areas of expertise include asthma, chronic cough, lung cancer, diagnostic bronchoscopy and endobronchial ultrasound (EBUS), while maintaining a broad general respiratory practice.