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Fee assured
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Verified account
- Not in Open Referral network
Specialises in
- Adult
- Paediatric
Offers
- Face-to-face consultations
- Video and telephone consultations
About me
After I qualified from Guy’s & St Thomas’ Hospitals, London I had extensive Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT) training in London and East Anglia, including an Otology Fellowship in Cambridge (2008) and a Balance Fellowship in St Louis (2018). I was appointed an ENT consultant in Edinburgh in 2010.
I was responsible for setting up NHS Lothian’s Specialist Multidisciplinary Balance Service and this experience in vertigo also benefits my private patients.
I am privileged to receive tertiary referrals for complex ear surgery from surgeons throughout Scotland and perform approximately 150 complex ear cases per year. I am the only surgeon in the region performing stapedectomy and middle ear implants.
We pioneered combining Hearing Implant Surgery with ear reconstruction in the UK within the Scottish National Service and I was the first surgeon in the UK to perform the BoneBridge Hearing Implant in 2012 which was featured in a BBC Scotland documentary.
I run International courses at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh to teach ear surgery and balance medicine to other doctors.
Surgical procedures undertaken include: intratympanic therapy, hearing implants, ossiculoplasty, stapedectomy, mastoid surgery, myringoplasty, grommet insertion, septoplasty, functional endoscopic sinus surgery (FESS), micro-laryngoscopy, oesophagoscopy, adenoidectomy and tonsillectomy.
Areas of interest
Otology:
- hearing loss
- tinnitus
- balance
- discharging ear
- Proceedures performed include Grommet insertion, Myringoplasty, Mastoidectomy, Ossiculoplasty, Stapedectomy and Hearing Implants;
Rhinology:
- nasal blockage
- runny nose
- Proceedures performed include Allergy testing and treatment, Septoplasty, Nasal Polypectomy and Functional Endoscopic Sinus Surgery;
Paediatric otolaryngology:
- hearing loss and 'glue ear'
- recurrent tonisillitis
- nasal blockage and bleeding
- Proceedures performed include Allergy testing and treatment, Grommet insertion, Adenoidectomy, Tonsillectomy, Nasal Cautery
Medical secretaries
- Medserv - Billing and Payments Only
- Medserv Medical Accounts ¿Ground Floor Rockwood House 9-17 Perrymount Road Haywards Heath RH16 3TW
- info@medserv.co.uk
Anaesthetists worked with
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Mr Alex Bennett has worked with Dr Grant C Price at the following hospitals:
- Spire Shawfair Park Hospital (1-5)
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Mr Alex Bennett has worked with Dr David Falzon at the following hospitals:
- Spire Shawfair Park Hospital (1-5)
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Mr Alex Bennett has worked with Dr Daniel Burke at the following hospitals:
- Spire Shawfair Park Hospital (1-5)
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Mr Alex Bennett has worked with Dr Audrey Jeffrey at the following hospitals:
- Spire Shawfair Park Hospital (1-5)
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Mr Alex Bennett has worked with Dr Kathryn Dalgleish at the following hospitals:
- Spire Shawfair Park Hospital (1-5)
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Mr Alex Bennett has worked with Dr Omair Malik at the following hospitals:
- Spire Shawfair Park Hospital (1-5)
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Mr Alex Bennett has worked with Dr Suzanne Boyle at the following hospitals:
- Spire Shawfair Park Hospital (1-5)
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Mr Alex Bennett has worked with Dr Stephen Meneely at the following hospitals:
- Spire Shawfair Park Hospital (1-5)
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Mr Alex Bennett has worked with Dr Duncan J Henderson at the following hospitals:
- Spire Shawfair Park Hospital (1-5)
Information for healthcare professionals (Bupa patients only, last 12 months)
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E2501
Fibre optic examination of the pharynx +/- biopsy/removal of foreign body - (>50)
Spire Shawfair Park Hospital (5-50)
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D0702
Aural toilet (including microsuction and/or suction of exteriorised mastoid cavity) including bilateral - (>50)
Spire Shawfair Park Hospital (5-50)
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E0360
Septoplasty of nose (including attention to turbinates) - (5-50)
Spire Shawfair Park Hospital (5-50)
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D1510
Myringotomy and insertion of tube through tympanic membrane (and bilateral) - (5-50)
Spire Shawfair Park Hospital (5-50)
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F3440
Tonsillectomy - adult (and bilateral) - (5-50)
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20210
Pure tone audiogram (air conduction) - including masking - (5-50)
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E2010
Adenoidectomy - (5-50)
Spire Shawfair Park Hospital (5-50)
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D1420
Myringoplasty - (1-5)
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AU006
Tympanometry - including reflex testing - (1-5)
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D1710
Stapedectomy (as sole procedure) - (1-5)
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E1432
FESS: excision uncinate process and anterior ethmoid bulla, antrostomy/antral puncture, simple polypectomy and attention to turbinates (bilateral) - (1-5)
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E0850
Removal of foreign body from cavity of nose - (1-5)
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E1480
Endoscopic exploration frontal sinus beyond frontoethmoid recess and bilateral - (1-5)
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F3480
Adenotonsillectomy (and bilateral) - (1-5)
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E0380
Nasal septum cauterisation (and bilateral) - (1-5)
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D1440
Combined approach tympanoplasty - intact canal wall tympanoplasty - (1-5)
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D2030
Removal of grommets - (1-5)
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20230
Impedance audiogram - (1-5)
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D2241
Injection eustachian tuboplasty - (1-5)