- Fee assured
- Awaiting verification
- Open Referral network
Specialises in
- Hepatobiliary
- Upper GI surgery
Offers
- Face-to-face consultations
- Video and telephone consultations
About me
Will works as a consultant surgeon at St Richard's Hospital, Chichester as well as running a private practice at the Chichester Nuffield Hospital.
He offers a friendly and personalised service ensuring that his patients are at the centre of the decisions made. He will offer an honest opinion on suitability for surgery, ensuring that patient wellbeing and patient choice are considered at all times.
Will graduated from the University of Birmingham in 1999. He continued his surgical training in the West Midlands, becoming a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 2010. He has had additional training through fellowships at world renowned departments in Taunton and Sydney, Australia.
He has been a consultant in Chichester since 2013. His main area of expertise is in laparoscopic upper GI and hernia surgery. Within the NHS he is one of the busiest Bariatric surgeons and sits on the Patient Safety Committee of the British Obesity and Metabolic Surgery Society.
Will's private practice focuses on the General Surgery side of his surgical practice, in particular gallstone disease, hiatus hernias/reflux and abdominal wall hernias.
Will also has a career interest in surgical education. He has previously been the Surgical College Tutor at St Richard's Hospital and a Sub-dean of Brighton and Sussex Medical School. He is currently the Training Programme Director for General Surgery in Kent, Surrey and Sussex, being responsible for the training of surgical registrars in the region. In this role he sits on a number of regional committees on surgical training.
Areas of interest
Gastro-intestinal tract (surgery); Upper gastro-intestinal disease; Gallstones; Hernias; Laparoscopic (keyhole) surgery; Gastro-oesophageal reflux; Hiatus hernias
Medical secretaries
- Caroline Canavan
- C/O The Chichester Suite St Richard's Hospital Spitalfield Lane Chichester PO19 6SE
- 07711 276845
- 07711 276845
- whawkins@doctors.org.uk
Anaesthetists worked with
- Dr Rajesh Shankar
Not Fee Assured
- Dr Tim Martindale
Fee Assured
- Dr Justin Dickens
Fee Assured
- Dr Michael Margarson
Not Fee Assured
Information for healthcare professionals (Bupa patients only, last 12 months)
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J1880
Laparoscopic cholecystectomy with peri-operative cholangiogram - (1-5)
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T2000
Primary repair of inguinal hernia - (1-5)
St Richards Hospital (1-5) Nuffield Health Chichester Hospital (1-5)
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T2400
Repair of umbilical/paraumbilical hernia (irrespective of age) - (1-5)
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T2781
Repair of epigastric hernia - (1-5)
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J1830
Laparoscopic cholecystectomy - (1-5)
St Richards Hospital (1-5)