Dr Matthew J Knight

• Unexplained Breathlessness
• Lung function testing
• Cardio-Pulmonary Exercise Testing (CPEX)
• Cough
• Recurrent Chest infections
• Asthma
• COPD
• Bronchiectasis

Dr Knight works as part of a broader team, in particular with colleagues from Respiratory Physiology, Radiology, Physiotherapy, Speech and Language Therapy, Thoracic Surgery, ENT and Cardiology. He believes that the advances of modern medicine often mean that a multi-disciplinary approach is required to ensure the best possible patient care.

Dr Knight lives and works locally and when not in clinic can often be found walking the dog with his family in the countryside in and around Hemel Hempstead. He enjoys cooking (and eating!) and socialising, as well as a bit of European travel when time allows.

• Consultant Respiratory Physician – West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals
• Co-Clinical lead Respiratory Medicine
• Medical Director – Medefer

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

• Virtual wards- an account from NHSX
• Feasibility and accuracy of the 40-steps desaturation test to determine outcomes in a cohort of patients presenting to hospital with and without COVID-19

GH Rhys, T Wakeling, SH Moosavi, JP Moore, H Dawes, M Knight, … Clinical Medicine 22 (3), 203

• Accuracy of Rapid Point-of-Care Antibody Test in patients with suspected or confirmed COVID-19

R Vancheeswaran, ML Willcox, B Stuart, M Knight, H Kandil, A Barlow, …

Journal of Infection 84 (1), 94-118

• Post-acute covid-19 in primary care

M Knight, R Vancheeswaran

bmj 375

• Direct and indirect evidence of efficacy and safety of rapid exercise tests for exertional desaturation in Covid-19: a rapid systematic review

A Kalin, B Javid, M Knight, M Inada-Kim, T Greenhalgh

Systematic reviews 10 (1), 1-13

• Racial discrepancies in oximetry: where do we stand?

MJ Knight, CP Subbe, M Inada-Kim

Anaesthesia

• Early prognostication of COVID-19 to guide hospitalisation versus outpatient monitoring using a point-of-test risk prediction score

F Chua, R Vancheeswaran, A Draper, T Vaghela, M Knight, R Mogal, …

Thorax 76 (7), 696-703

• Ambulatory management of secondary spontaneous pneumothorax: a randomised controlled trial

SP Walker, E Keenan, O Bintcliffe, AE Stanton, M Roberts, J Pepperell, …

European Respiratory Journal 57 (6)

• Authors’ reply to Moyle and Ashworth

M Knight, T Greenhalgh, NJ Fulop, M Inada-Kim

bmj 373

• Remote management of covid-19 using home pulse oximetry and virtual ward support

T Greenhalgh, M Knight, M Inda-Kim, NJ Fulop, J Leach, …

bmj 372

• ​Long Covid- recommendations and priority research questions – a report to the House of Lords Long Covid sub committee.
• Predictors of clinical deterioration in patients with suspected COVID-19 managed in a ‘virtual hospital’setting: a cohort study

NA Francis, B Stuart, M Knight, R Vancheeswaran, C Oliver, M Willcox, …

BMJ open 11 (3), e045356

• P256 Prognostication in COVID-19: a prospectively derived and externally validated risk prediction score for in-hospital death

F Chua, A Draper, M Knight, R Mogal, J Singh, LG Spencer, E Thwaite, …

Thorax 76 (Suppl 1), A228-A229

• Mobile App–Based Remote Patient Monitoring in Acute Medical Conditions: Prospective Feasibility Study Exploring Digital Health Solutions on Clinical Workload During the COVID crisis

SS Shah, A Gvozdanovic, M Knight, J Gagnon

JMIR formative research 5 (1), e23190

• Long COVID: a primer for family physicians

T Greenhalgh, M Knight

American family physician 102 (12), 716-717

• PMD35 Remote Patient Monitoring in ACUTE Medical Conditions; CAN Digital Health Solutions Reduce Clinician Workload and Ease the Pressure on Healthcare Providers during the Covid Crisis

S Shah, A Gvozdanovic, M Knight, J Gagnon

Value in Health 23, S582

• What is the Efficacy and Safety of Rapid Exercise Tests for Exertional Desaturation in Covid-19: A Rapid Systematic Review

A Kalin, B Javid, M Knight, M Inada-Kim, T Greenhalgh

• Predictors of adverse outcome in patients with suspected COVID-19 managed in a ‘virtual hospital’setting: a cohort study

NA Francis, B Stuart, M Knight, R Vancheeswaran, C Oliver, M Willcox, …

• Late Breaking Abstract-Randomised trial of ambulatory management of primary spontaneous pneumothorax

R Hallifax, E Mckeown, P Sivakumar, I Fairburn, C Peter, A Leitch, …

European Respiratory Journal 56 (suppl 64)

• Management of post-acute covid-19 in primary care

T Greenhalgh, M Knight, M Buxton, L Husain

bmj 370

• Ambulatory management of primary spontaneous pneumothorax: an open-label, randomised controlled trial

RJ Hallifax, E McKeown, P Sivakumar, I Fairbairn, C Peter, A Leitch, …

The Lancet 396 (10243), 39-49

• Randomised Trial for Ambulatory Management of Primary Spontaneous Pneumothorax

R Hallifax, E McKeown, P Sivakumar, I Fairbairn, C Peter, A Leitch, …

A24. EPIDEMIOLOGY, DIAGNOSIS, AND TREATMENT IN PLEURAL DISEASE AND IP, A1124 …

• What is the efficacy and safety of rapid exercise tests for exertional desaturation in covid-19

T Greenhalgh, B Javid, M Knight, M Inada-Kim

Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, Nuffield Department of Primary Care …

• What is the efficacy and safety of rapid exercise tests for exertional desaturation in Covid-19: A rapid review protocol

T Greenhalgh, B Javid, M Knight, M Inada-Kim

• The Rocket Pleural Vent in Pneumothorax

M Knight, P Yunger, Z Wu, A Barlow

European Respiratory Journal 54 (suppl 63)

• S99 Point of care testing for respiratory viruses (RPOCT): a novel service to facilitate appropriate discharge and infection control measures and improve antimicrobial stewardship

K Roy, K Groom, N Read, C Cucciniello, M Knight

Thorax 73 (Suppl 4), A60-A61

• Respiratory viral point of care testing (POCT) allows improved infection control and bed management during an influenza outbreak

K Roy, H Kandil, M Knight, M Thapa, K Groom

European Respiratory Journal 52 (suppl 62)

• Point of care respiratory viral testing (POCT): A novel service to target appropriate antimicrobial prescription and improve antibiotic stewardship

K Roy, K Groom, M Knight

European Respiratory Journal 52 (suppl 62)

• The role of a pleural service in optimising pleural disease management

M Knight, L Yazbeck, S Hanger, O Butters, D Creer

European Respiratory Journal 44 (Suppl 58)

• The effect of bisphosphonates on calcium and parathyroid hormone levels in patients with primary hyperparathyroidism over 2 years

MJ Knight, PJ Hyatt

Endocrine Abstracts 12

• ¿ Cuál es la eficacia y seguridad de las pruebas rápidas de ejercicio para la desaturación por esfuerzo en covid-19?

B Javid, M Knight, M Inada-Kim

• What is the efficacy and safety of rapid exercsie tests for exertional desaturation in covid-19?

T Greenhalgh, B Javid, M Knight, M Inada-Kim

• Proof that virtual clinics can reduce waiting lists – HSJ opinion 
• A Virtual hospital model can help tackle the Covid pandemic – HSJ opinion
• https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/05/24/coronavirus-patients-monitored-year/
• https://www.telegraph.co.uk/health-fitness/body/everything-doctors-know-far-treating-coronavirus/
• https://www.hemeltoday.co.uk/health/coronavirus/watford-general-treated-hundreds-covid-19-patients-virtual-hospital-2907125
• https://www.thehtn.co.uk/2020/06/12/huma-supports-nhsx-remote-monitoring-trials/
• https://www.med-technews.com/news/virtual-wards-created-for-remote-monitoring-of-covid-19-pati/
• https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidprosser/2020/06/19/huma-proves-the-case-for-digital-health-amid-covid-19-crisis/
• https://www.nhsx.nhs.uk/blogs/early-data-nhsx-tech-enabled-remote-monitoring-pilot/

Dr Knight works with all the major insurance companies and works within their agreed fee structures.