Professor Brian Saunders : General (internal) medicine

Not Fee assured
Verified account
Open Referral network
Accredited endoscopist

Overview

Bupa specialist

Accredited endoscopist

Offers

Face-to-face consultations
Video and telephone consultations

About me

Consultant Gastroenterologist and specialist Endoscopist, St. Mark's Hospital, NW London University Hospitals Trust and Professor of Endoscopy Practice, Imperial College. Director of Bowel Cancer screening for NW London and Director of the Kennedy-Leigh Academic Endoscopy Centre at St. Mark's Hospital. I have personally performed >30,000 colonoscopies and receive referrals from throughout the UK and Internationally for colonoscopy procedures, particularly endoscopic resection of large colorectal polyps and surveillance of patients at higher risk for developing colorectal cancer (family history, ulcerative colitis, polyposis syndromes).

Areas of interest

Diagnostic and therapeutic Colonoscopy; EMR; ESD; bowel cancer prevention; gastroscopy; capsule enteroscopy; luminal gastroenterology including inflammatory (IBD); polyposis syndromes, gastro-oesophageal reflux.

Medical secretaries

FOR PAYMENTS - MediAccounts
4 Warner House Harrovian Business Village Harrow HA1 3EX
020 3637 0038
payments@mediaccounts.co.uk

Lauren Bean - medical secretary
One Welbeck Digestive Health 1 Floor 2, 1 Welbeck Street London W1G 0AR
020 3327 7302
pm.saunders@welbeckhealth.com

Anaesthetists worked with

Dr Stefan Sevastru Fee Assured
Mr Robert Hearn Fee Assured
Dr Lucia Misquita Fee Assured
Dr James Down Fee Assured
Dr Seema Shah Fee Assured
Dr Nicholas Bunker Fee Assured
Dr Sarah Kwok Fee Assured

Dr Matthew Dickinson Fee Assured
Dr Kshiteeja Naik Fee Assured
Dr Flavio Severgnini Fee Assured
Dr Nusrat Usman Fee Assured
Dr Lauren A Wilson Fee Assured
Dr Ismael Jose Goncalves Bastos Fee Assured
Dr Lynne Barrass Fee Assured

About me

External resources

Current NHS consultant posts held

Consultant Gastroenterologist
St. Mark's Hospital
NWL Hospitals NHS Trust
Harrow, Middlesex
HA1 3UJ

Research interests

I have authored or co-authored >180 peer-reviewed papers on colonoscopic practice, written > 20 book chapters and am editor of the book "Practical Gastrointestinal Endoscopy"

Personal interests

Trail running
Tennis, cricket
Fishing

Awards received

J Edward Berk Award ACG 2004
Hopkins endoscopy prize BSG 1996
St. Mark's Innovation award 2019
Endoscopy Foundation lecture - 2015
Sir Arthur Hurst Lecture 2023 - BSG
Royal College of Physicians Service Improvement Award 2025

Publications

Cross AJ, Robbins EC, Pack K, Stenson I, Kirby PL, Patel B, Rutter MD, Veitch
AM, Saunders BP, Duffy SW, Wooldrage K. Long-term colorectal cancer incidence
after adenoma removal and the effects of surveillance on incidence: a
multicentre, retrospective, cohort study. Gut. 2020 Jan 17.

Rameshshanker R, Tsiamoulos Z, Wilson A, Rajendran A, Bassett P, Tekkis P,
Saunders BP. Endoscopic cuff-assisted colonoscopy versus cap-assisted colonoscopy
in adenoma detection: randomized tandem study-DEtection in Tandem Endocuff Cap
Trial (DETECT). Gastrointest Endosc. 2020 Apr;91(4):894-904.

Rutter MD, East J, Rees CJ, Cripps N, Docherty J, Dolwani S, Kaye PV, Monahan
KJ, Novelli MR, Plumb A, Saunders BP, Thomas-Gibson S, Tolan DJM, Whyte S,
Bonnington S, Scope A, Wong R, Hibbert B, Marsh J, Moores B, Cross A, Sharp L.
British Society of Gastroenterology/Association of Coloproctology of Great
Britain and Ireland/Public Health England post-polypectomy and post-colorectal
cancer resection surveillance guidelines. Gut. 2020 Feb;69(2):201-223.

Elliott TR, Tsiamoulos ZP, Thomas-Gibson S, Suzuki N, Bourikas LA, Hart A,
Bassett P, Saunders BP. Factors associated with delayed bleeding after resection
of large nonpedunculated colorectal polyps. Endoscopy. 2018 Aug;50(8):790-799.

Rees CJ, Rajasekhar PT, Wilson A, Close H, Rutter MD, Saunders BP, East JE,
Maier R, Moorghen M, Muhammad U, Hancock H, Jayaprakash A, MacDonald C, Ramadas
A, Dhar A, Mason JM. Narrow band imaging optical diagnosis of small colorectal
polyps in routine clinical practice: the Detect Inspect Characterise Resect and
Discard 2 (DISCARD 2) study. Gut. 2017 May;66(5):887-895.

Saunders BP, Tsiamoulos ZP. Endoscopic mucosal resection and endoscopic
submucosal dissection of large colonic polyps. Nat Rev Gastroenterol Hepatol.
2016 Aug;13(8):486-96.

Pimentel-Nunes P, Dinis-Ribeiro M, Ponchon T, Repici A, Vieth M, De Ceglie A,
Amato A, Berr F, Bhandari P, Bialek A, Conio M, Haringsma J, Langner C, Meisner
S, Messmann H, Morino M, Neuhaus H, Piessevaux H, Rugge M, Saunders BP,
Robaszkiewicz M, Seewald S, Kashin S, Dumonceau JM, Hassan C, Deprez PH.
Endoscopic submucosal dissection: European Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
(ESGE) Guideline. Endoscopy. 2015 Sep;47(9):829-54.

Courses offered to GPs

Colon cancer update

Colonoscopy and cancer prevention

My outcomes

My qualifications & training

Qualifications

MB BS UCLH 1988
MD University of London 1996
FRCP Royal College of Physicians of London 2002
FRCS (by election) Royal College of Surgeons 2016

GMC registration

Reference number 3285024

Details of entry to specialist register

General Medicine , 1997

Affiliations / memberships

British Society of Gastroenterology
European Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
American Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
Royal College of Physicians
Royal College of Surgeons

My private practice

Practice hours

Practice
Day
Hours
Appt Bookings

Central Middlesex Hospital
Thursday
13:30 - 17:00
020 3327 7302

One Welbeck Digestive Health
Monday
09:00 - 17:00
020 3327 7302

One Welbeck Digestive Health
Wednesday
09:00 - 17:30
020 3327 7302

Post treatment communication

Following treatment of a Bupa member, I will communicate with GPs in line with Department of Health, GMC and appropriate professional bodies guidelines.

In the event of an urgent query following treatment, Bupa members should use the following contact details

Prof Brian Saunders
One Welbeck, Digestive Health
Tel 0203 327 7302

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