Professor Sanjay Agrawal

Consultant in Repiratory & Intensive Care Medicine

Sanjay is a Consultant in Respiratory & Intensive Care Medicine in Leicester and the National Specialty Adviser to NHS England for Tobacco. For the past 15-20 years has been interested in stopping people getting lung cancer in the first place by identifying people who smoke and providing treatment for tobacco addiction whenever they are admitted to hospital. More recently he has been working with the lung cancer team in Leicester to identify people who smoke, who are referred to the lung cancer 2WW clinic and providing treatment on an opt-out basis. Sanjay contributed to the British Thoracic Society (BTS) Clinical Statement on the management of in-patient tobacco dependency published in 2024 and is working on the implementation of in-patient tobacco dependency treatment services in every hospital in England.