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Specialises in

• Upper GI surgery

Offers

• Face-to-face consultations
• Video and telephone consultations

About me

I am a specialist upper gastrointestinal and bariatric surgeon with many years of consultant experience.

My practice encompasses keyhole abdominal surgery of the upper GI system. I specialise in gallstones & gallbladder surgery, reflux / hiatus hernia surgery, NHS weight-loss surgery, and both general and complex hernia repairs.

Most surgery I normally performed using specialist keyhole (laparoscopic techniques).

I am one of Bristol's leading UGI & bariatric surgeons as a Consultant Surgeon at North Bristol NHS Trust, based at Southmead Hospital. I am a member of the Association of Upper GI surgeons, The British Obesity and metabolic surgery Society, the National Bariatric Surgery Registry, and the Local Principal Investigator for National Bariatric Surgery (ByBandSleeve) and Gallstone (Sunflower & Rosier) Clinical Trials.

I undertake all forms of keyhole hernia operations and I am a member of the SW regional Abdominal Wall Reconstruction team, so I will undertake open complex incisional hernia surgery, trauma hernia surgery and complex revisional groin & ventral hernias.

I also have an interest in specialist bariatric and reflux upper GI endoscopy.

Areas of interest

Gallstones, Gallbladder Surgery, Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy; Anti-reflux (acid reflux) Surgery, Fundoplication & Hiatus hernia Surgery; Hernia Repair (Inguinal hernia, femoral hernia, incisional hernia, para-umbilical hernia, epigastric hernia) ; all both keyhole (laparoscopic hernia) or open. Including Complex Abdominal Wall Reconstruction Surgery for complex incisional hernias, recurrent hernias or very large hernias.
Bariatric surgery, for complex obesity, weight-loss surgery (gastric balloon, gastric bypass, sleeve gastrectomy);
Endoscopic (OGD); procedures for; diagnosis (GA OGD), weight loss (Gastric Balloons); and reflux;

Medical secretaries

• Kirsty Smith
• UGI & Keyhole Surgery Nuffield Health Bristol Hospital The Chesterfield 3 Clifton Hill Bristol BS8 1BN
• 0117 906 4880
• 0117 925 4909
• kirsty.smith@nuffieldhealth.com

Anaesthetists worked with

• Dr Deborah J Harris Not Fee Assured