Dr Sujoy Saikia is a Consultant Respiratory Physician, fully registered with the GMC and dual-accredited in Respiratory Medicine and General Internal Medicine. He provides clear, evidence-based assessment and treatment for a wide range of respiratory conditions, with a strong focus on personalised, compassionate, and patient-centred care.

Since completing his Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) in 2016, he has worked as a substantive consultant at Ashford and St Peter’s Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. He currently serves as the Clinical Lead and Head of the Respiratory Department. Prior to this, he was the chair of the Lung Cancer MDT and the Trust’s lung cancer lead clinician. Dr Saikia continues to share close ties with the lung cancer MDT, Thoracic Surgery colleagues from University College of London and St George’s Hospital. He works closely with cancer specialists from the regional cancer unit, St Luke's cancer centre in Guilford.

He developed the Trust’s lung nodule surveillance programme and led the implementation of the GP direct-to-CT pathway across Surrey, improving the speed and efficiency of suspected lung cancer assessment. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr Saikia was instrumental in setting up one of UK’s first COVID virtual wards, enabling safe remote monitoring and early intervention for high-risk patients.

He offers a range of diagnostic and interventional procedures, including EBUS, bronchoscopic biopsy, medical thoracoscopy, and ultrasound-guided chest drain and aspiration procedures. Dr Saikia's research interests include haemodynamic changes in the pulmonary vasculature in COPD, with a focus on vascular remodelling and its clinical impact. He is also involved in COVID-19 research and led a team that developed a chest X-ray severity scoring system designed for use in resource-limited settings to support early triage and clinical decision-making.

Dr Saikia is a Royal College of Physicians PACES Examiner and serves as a clinical tutor for medical undergraduate students from Imperial College London and the University of Surrey. Additionally, Dr Saikia is a Fellow of the Royal Colleges Of Physicians (FRCP, London) and registered as a MRCP-UK PACES Examiner.

His practice is grounded in clinical excellence, empathy, and clear communication, ensuring that every patient receives high-quality, timely, and supportive respiratory care.

Areas of expertise

• Areas of Expertise
• Asthma
• COPD
• Cough
• Sleep apnoea
• Pulmonary fibrosis
• Bronchiectasis
• Lung cancer
• Fibre-optic flexible bronchoscopy and EBUS
• Sleep apnoea
• TB, pneumonia and chest infection
• Lung nodules
• Pleural effusion

Clinical interests

In addition to the above, Dr Saikia's key areas of interest lie in the evaluation of unexplained breathlessness with comprehensive assessment that includes pulmonary function testing, chest scans and cardiopulmonary testing. In the NHS sector he leads the respiratory stream for the ‘breathlessness pathway’ at the Woking Community Diagnostic Centre, which aims to target this group of patients.

He also has a special interest in management of obstructive sleep apnoea and non-invasive ventilation. Dr Saikia is currently the lead for the obstructive sleep apnoea and domiciliary (long-term) non-invasive ventilation services at ASPH.

• Member Royal College of Physicians
• British Thoracic Society
• European Respiratory Society