- Fee assured
- Verified account
- Open Referral network
Specialises in
- Upper GI surgery
Offers
- Face-to-face consultations
- Video and telephone consultations
About me
I am a fully accredited specialist consultant surgeon on the General Medical Council's specialist register for Upper Gastro-Intestinal and Laparoscopic surgery. I am a Consultant in the NHS at the City and Sandwell Hospitals NHS Trust Birmingham, UK, a Consultant at the Priory private hospital, Edgbaston Hospital Circle Group), Little Aston Spire Hospital, Westbourne Centre (Ramsay Healthcare), and an Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Birmingham. I run an Upper Gastro-intestinal and Laparoscopic surgery in the NHS practice.
I qualified and trained in general surgery and obtained the FRCS fellowship qualification in surgery from the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and Glasgow 1997.
I also teach surgical skills and techniques to the trainee in Surgery who will be the consultant surgeons of the future. I have regular commitments in various training courses, teaching laparoscopic surgery, as a supervisor introducing junior surgeons to surgery, and as a supervisor to medical students studying medicine at the University of Birmingham.
I run laparoscopic Hernia courses and laparoscopic Cholecystectomy courses
Areas of interest
I also run a successful private practice in Upper GI surgery, Laparoscopic cholecystectomy, and laparoscopic hernias and in laparoscopic anti reflux surgery.I have interest in Gastro intestinal surgery, I have advanced laparascopic skills. The majority of my work is minimally invasive surgery of the:
Cholecystectomy with intra operative cholangiogram
Laparoscopic Exploration CBD
Laparoscopic anti-reflux surgery fundoplication
Laparascopic hernia repair (TEP:Totally Extra peritoneal, TAP: Trans peritoneal, incisional)
Staging gastrointestinal cancers
Appendicectomy, perforated gastro-duodenal ulcer
Laparoscopic gastro-intestinal anastomosis, and bowel obstruction due to adhesions
Medical secretaries
- Kirsty Huggins
- Priory Hospital Priory Road Edgbaston Birmingham B5 7UG
- 0121 446 1671
- kirsty.huggins@circlehealthgroup.co.uk
Anaesthetists worked with
- Dr Ajit Walunj
Fee Assured
Information for healthcare professionals (Bupa patients only, last 12 months)
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T2400
Repair of umbilical/paraumbilical hernia (irrespective of age) - (1-5)
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T2012
Laparoscopic repair of inguinal hernia - bilateral - (1-5)
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G6500
Diagnostic oesophago-gastro-duodenoscopy (OGD) includes forceps biopsy, biopsy urease test and dye spray - (1-5)
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T3600
Wedge excision or removal of omentum (as sole procedure) - (1-5)