Spinal surgery • General neurosurgery • Head injury • Skull base surgery, including acoustic neuroma management and meningiomas • Chiari malformation and syringomyelia - from all causes • Trigeminal neuralgia, hemifacial spasm and glossopharyngeal neuralgia • Intradural spinal tumours

Mr Phillips' clinical interests are in endoscopic skull base surgery, cranial neurosurgery, particularly pituitary surgery, trigeminal neuralgia, subarachnoid haemorrhage and radiosurgery. He has also contributed to national policy in radiosurgery.

Chronic pain • Chronic pain syndrome • Complex regional pain syndrome • CRPS • Neuropathic pain • Chronic post-traumatic pain • Chronic post-surgical pain • Psychologically mediated chronic pain conditions • Spinal pain • Neck pain • Back pain • Whiplash injury • Scar pain • Nerve pain • Neuromodulation, including spinal cord stimulation • Psychological treatment pathways for chronic pain conditions • Pain management programmes Areas of work: North, East and South Yorkshire, London, Manchester, Durham, Birmingham, Bristol.

Clinical interests focus on: • Neurosurgical oncology of the brain and spinal cord • Surgery for cranial neuropathies (trigeminal, glossopharyngeal, geniculate neuralgias; hemifacial spasm) • Complex spinal surgery He also focuses on: • Degenerative disorders of the lumbar spine and cervical spine • Surgeries for facial pain and cranial nerve hyperactive disorders • Brain tumours • Spinal cord tumours • Disorders of cerebrospinal fluid dynamics • Disorders of the cranio-cervical junction