Christchurch Vascular Clinic

Mr Laws graduated as Bachelor of Medicine (MB) and Bachelor of Surgery (ChB) from The University of Sheffield School of Medicine in 1989. He continued his post graduate surgical training in Sheffield and later in the West Midlands before becoming a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland (FRCSI) in 1996. Having developed an early interest in Vascular Surgery, Peter worked as a registrar in General and Vascular Surgery throughout the West Midlands before travelling to Australia to complete 2 years of surgical research at the Queens Elizabeth Hospital in Adelaide, followed by a further year as a Vascular fellow before returning to the UK. He achieved the UK intercollegiate Surgical Fellowship exam in 2004. Soon after, he became a Consultant Vascular Surgeon with commitments at the Worthing and Southlands NHS Trust and Brighton and Sussex University Hospital in the UK. Having spent almost six years as a consultant surgeon across East and West Sussex, Peter was fortunate to be offered a place at Christchurch Hospital, Canterbury and District Health Board and later, appointed Clinical Senior Fellow at the University of Otago. Peter has extensive international experience in open and endovascular surgery under local, regional and general anaesthesia with a specific interest in Endo-venous surgery and the VNUS Closure procedure. Peter is the New Zealand proctor for the Australasian branch of Covidien with over 8 years experience in the VNUS (Venefit) Closure Procedure. Peter performed the first ever cases in West and East Sussex in the UK and more recently Christchurch New Zealand. He has performed a number of live cases at the RACS vascular trainees course 2013 and presented extensively at the Australian and New Zealand Society of phlebology "Master Class in the treatment of varicose veins using radio frequency ablation" 2014.  Not surprisingly he is considered an expert in the field of Radio-frequency ablation for the treatment of varicose veins.