Consultant in Gastroenterology

Gastroenterology outpatient services offered at the

Trust

General Gastroenterology outpatient clinics (all general clinics booked to a 5 New and 8 F/U template) Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) outpatient clinics at St Marys, Hammersmith and Charing Cross Hospitals Specialist HPB clinics at Hammersmith Hospital Day case endoscopy, including gastroscopy, colonoscopy, ERCP & EUS, balloon enteroscopy Capsule endoscopy Upper GI physiology Bowel Cancer Screening 1 post will include a complex nutrition / Intestinal failure clinic at Central Middlesex Hospital (London North West Hospital Trust). 1 post will include an IBD clinic and alternate week endoscopy list at Central Middlesex Hospital (London North West Hospital Trust). The endoscopy service provides a comprehensive range of diagnostic procedures, including enteroscopy (SMH/ CXH), EUS and ERCP (Hammersmith), and is fully accredited JAG certified. The service operates across all three main sites and continues to grow rapidly At St Marys there is a 15 bedded ward which is covered by gastroenterology and has a mixture of gastrointestinal and GIM patients. Inpatients on the St Marys site are looked after by the consultant on the wards on a 1:6 basis (10 day block). The Consultant of the week will undertake a twice-weekly ward round of the gastroenterology ward (15 beds), and a daily board MDT round. During ward cover weeks all other DCC is cancelled except one and cover emergency GI bleeds in theatre during the ward week