Dr Pandora Wright

Dr Pandora Wright is an experienced consultant in geriatric and general medicine, focusing on holistic, person-centred care for older adults with frailty, cognitive impairment, dementia, multimorbidity and complex health needs. She practises at Charing Cross Hospital, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, and has distinctive expertise in community geriatrics, regularly visiting patients in their own homes and providing specialist care-home reviews. This enables her to understand each patient’s environment, daily challenges and personal goals, and to shape care that is truly centred on their life, values and priorities. She provides holistic, comprehensive assessment and integrated care across hospital and community settings, and is skilled in managing complex medical conditions including falls, cognitive and functional decline, and the multiple long-term conditions that commonly affect older people.

Dr Wright undertakes comprehensive geriatric assessments, advanced care planning and capacity assessments related to care needs and place of care. She is known for her calm, professional and compassionate manner, and for working closely with GPs therapists, specialist nurses, social care teams and other hospital specialists to provide clear, coordinated and supportive care plans for patients and their families.

Dr Wright graduated MBBS with Merit in clinical pharmacology from the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine and holds a First-Class Honours degree in the history of medicine from University College London. She completed her specialist training across major London teaching hospitals and has been a consultant geriatrician at Charing Cross Hospital since 2016.

Throughout her career, she has developed a particular interest in community and nursing home based care, integrated pathways and improving services for older adults with complex medical and social needs.

Her research interests include admission avoidance and innovative community care models. She was first author of a well-cited Age & Ageing study evaluating the TREAT admission-avoidance service, which received a Royal Society of Medicine presentation prize. She is also a clinical adviser to the MINDERCARE study at Imperial College, and contributes to research and quality improvement work on frailty and acute care pathways.

Dar A, Wiltshire R, Wright PN. “Best-Interest Meeting Decision Toolkit.” Age and Ageing 2021;50(Suppl_1). DOI 10.1093/ageing/afab030.16

Moorhead J. “Can we survive this squeeze? How to cope when both your kids and your parents need help.” The Guardian, 11 Sep 2021 (interviewed and quoted as community geriatrician and RSM Geriatrics & Gerontology Section President).

Iliffe S, Wright P, Law R et al. “Enabling Research in Care Homes.” Age and Ageing 2017;46(6):1017. DOI 10.1093/ageing/afx131

Abdulla A, Wright PN, Ross LE, Gallagher H, Iyasere O, Ma N, Bartholomew C, Lowton K, Brown EA. Proceedings From the Symposium on Kidney Disease in Older People: Royal Society of Medicine, London, January 19, 2017. Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine. 2017;3:1-22. doi:10.1177/2333721417736858

Wright PN, Tan G, Iliffe S, Lee D. The impact of a new emergency admission avoidance system for older people on length of stay and same-day discharges. Age and Ageing. 2014;43(1):116-121. doi:10.1093/ageing/aft086

Wright PN. Trick or TREAT: Measuring the impact of TREAT - a new admission avoidance system for the over 70's. British Geriatrics Society blog, 14 October 2013

Geddes L. “Solving an age-old problem.” New Scientist, 17 Aug 2013, pp.8-9 (ScienceDirect — interviewed and cited).

Wright PN. “Residential home assessment: the tip of a 36-year iceberg.” BMJ 2011;343:d7034. DOI 10.1136/bmj.d7034

Wright PN. BSc (Hons) History of Medicine dissertation, University College London 1990: “A Comparison of the Health of Jews and non-Jews in the East End of London 1880-1930.”