Dr Gwilym P. Hosking (Charing Cross Medical School 1969)

Provided by Pat Winstanley

Dr Gwilym Hosking died suddenly at the end of October 2006 at the age of 61.

He qualified from Charing Cross Hospital in 1969 and early in his postgraduate career opted to train in paediatric neurology. Junior posts were undertaken in Liverpool, the Hammersmith Hospital and Great Ormond Street. He was appointed Consultant Paediatric Neurologist in Sheffield in 1977 and shortly thereafter was made Director of The Ryegate Children's Centre where the then state of the art facilities enabled him to develop his commitment to the development of multiprofessional services for children with disabilities, a commitment that remained with him throughout his professional career. He combined this with a commitment to facilitating the development of services abroad. He held a BPA Heinz Fellowship in 1981 and had longstanding links with paediatric centres in Malaysia and India.

In 1990 Dr Hosking left Sheffield and, after a spell with the Wellcome Foundation where he had a lead role in anticonvulsant research studies, he then set up Integrated Neurocare in London in 1995 as a multiprofessional child neurology and neurodisability service in the private sector with clinics in London, Manchester and Sheffield. Concurrently he had a large medico-Iegal practice.

He is survived by his wife, Suzie Mitchell, who is a paediatric Neuropsychologist and five children and five grandchildren.