Alan Farthing

{{Short description|English obstetrician and gynaecologist (born 1963)}}

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Alan John Farthing {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|CVO|FRCOG}} (born 1963) is a British gynaecologist, head of the department for gynaecological cancer at Imperial College, and on the list of honorary staff at the King Edward VII's Hospital.{{cite web |title=Mr Alan Farthing |url=https://www.kingedwardvii.co.uk/consultants/mr-alan-farthing |website=King Edward VII’s Hospital |access-date=25 March 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240325055459/https://www.kingedwardvii.co.uk/consultants/mr-alan-farthing|archive-date=25 March 2024}} He served as Surgeon-Gynaecologist to Queen Elizabeth II's Royal Household.

Career

Alan Farthing was born in Winchester, Hampshire.‘Farthing, Alan John’, Who's Who 2013, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2013; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012; online edn, Nov 2012 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U250793, accessed 4 Dec 2012] He attended Beacon School in Crowborough, East Sussex, where his father was headmaster. After training at St George's Hospital Medical School, London, Farthing qualified as a doctor in 1986. He became a member of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in 1991, and a Fellow in 2003.{{cite web |url=http://www.drfosterhealth.co.uk/consultant-guide/Mr-Alan-Farthing-3140664.aspx |title=Mr Alan Farthing – Hospital Consultants Guide – UK Medical Consultant Directory – Dr Foster |publisher=Drfosterhealth.co.uk |accessdate=23 December 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111113003344/http://www.drfosterhealth.co.uk/consultant-guide/Mr-Alan-Farthing-3140664.aspx |archive-date=13 November 2011 |url-status=dead }}{{failed verification|date=March 2024}}

Farthing was appointed as a consultant gynaecologist at St Mary's Hospital in 1997, where he also became an honorary Senior Lecturer at Imperial College, London. He is a specialist in gynaecological cancer care, and an internationally recognised expert in the use of laparoscopic and hysteroscopic surgery.{{cite web|url=http://www1.imperial.ac.uk/medicine/people/a.farthing/ |title=Mr Alan Farthing |publisher=.imperial.ac.uk |accessdate=23 December 2011}}

Farthing has a private Harley Street practice, and works as a consultant at two teaching hospitals in London: Queen Charlotte's Hospital in Shepherd's Bush, and St Mary's Hospital in Paddington.

Surgeon-Gynaecologist to the Royal Household

In 2008, Farthing was appointed to assist Marcus Setchell, who was retiring from the NHS, as the Queen's Surgeon-Gynaecologist.{{cite news|last=Bailey|first=Charlotte|title=Jill Dando's fiancé to be the Queen's doctor|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/theroyalfamily/3084196/Jill-Dandos-fiance-to-be-the-Queens-doctor.html|accessdate=30 July 2013|newspaper=The Telegraph|date=26 September 2008}}

He was appointed Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO) in the 2023 Birthday Honours for services to the Royal Household.{{London Gazette|issue=64082|supp=y|page=B4|date=17 June 2023}}

Personal life

Farthing was separated from his first wife when he met BBC TV presenter Jill Dando. After Farthing's divorce in late 1998, the couple announced their engagement on 31 January 1999 and were due to marry in September 1999.[http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article/4443940.ece Profile: Jill Dando, TV's girl next door]{{dead link|date=September 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}

On 26 April 1999, Dando was murdered on the doorstep of her house in Gowan Avenue, Fulham. Farthing rarely speaks about Dando's murder, with his last major interview given to the Daily Mail in June 1999. In the interview, Farthing said that Dando had made him breakfast at his then home in Chiswick, West London before he left for work. Dando then went shopping before returning to her home in Gowan Avenue, where she was shot and killed. Farthing described how a week after Dando's murder, he found a reporters' notebook containing a draft of the speech she had intended to give on their wedding day. Dando's co-presenter on Crimewatch, Nick Ross, proposed the formation of an academic institute in her name and together with Farthing raised almost {{£|1.5|link=yes}}{{nbsp}}million (equivalent to £{{Inflation|UK|1.5|2000|r=1}} million in {{Inflation/year|UK}}). The Jill Dando Institute of Crime Science was founded at University College London on 26 April 2001, the second anniversary of her murder.{{cite web|url=http://www.jdi.ucl.ac.uk/about/jdi/index.php |title=Jill Dando Institute of Crime Science |publisher=Jdi.ucl.ac.uk |accessdate=23 December 2011}}

Selected publications

{{cite journal |last1=Kyrgiou |first1=M. |last2=Horwell |first2=D. H. |last3=Farthing |first3=A. |title=Laparoscopic radical abdominal trachelectomy for the management of stage IB1 cervical cancer at 14 weeks' gestation: case report and review of the literature |journal=BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology |date=July 2015 |volume=122 |issue=8 |pages=1138–1143 |doi=10.1111/1471-0528.13392 |pmid=25832461 |url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25832461/ |issn=1471-0528}}
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