► Tell us how your training has helped you to apply for this job (other than Pain)?

► What is your opinion about the decreasing time for training nowadays?

► What are the recent NICE guidelines on pain management? Will you follow those guidelines?

► Why do you want to take this job and why in this region?

► Do you think the NICE committee is fairly representing all stakeholders?

► Epidural steroids are not licensed for use. If you were taken to court on this matter, how would you defend yourself?

► Why do you want to do the Irish Fellowship in Pain when you already have the British Fellowship?

► You are interviewed by the media about the role of the anaesthetist. How will you explain it to the public?

► Tell me about the WHO checklist.

► Give me examples of your previous encounter with management officials.

► Have you done anything to improve services in any of the hospitals you have worked in before?

► Have you ever filled a critical incident form?

► Can you talk about root-cause analysis?

► Discuss one thing which impressed you most and one which depressed you most about the NHS in the past 10 years.

► Tell us about communication.

► How do you reduce the anxiety of patients and relatives pre-surgery?