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Services available at: Lister Hospital, New QEII Hospital
We have two accredited endoscopy units at the Lister and New QEll hospitals, which are supported by a complement of dedicated staff comprising consultants, specialist nurses, endoscopy nursing staff, clinical support workers, porters, administrative, domestic staff and volunteers.
There are six procedure rooms – four at the Lister and two at the New QEII – and two treatment rooms, where we perform over 17,000 gastrointestinal endoscopy procedures each year, including diagnostic, therapeutic and surveillance procedures across both hospital sites.
A wide range of therapeutic interventions (most of which are carried out at the Lister’s endoscopy unit) include: dilatation of strictures; insertion of oesophageal, biliary and colonic stents; laser treatment of tumours; percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) and endoscopic colopexy (PEC) tube insertion; polypectomy and endoscopic mucosal resection of polyps; and control of acute and chronic gastrointestinal bleeding.
Procedure | |
Gastroscopy | Diagnostic Therapeutic Surveillance |
Colonoscopy | Diagnostic Therapeutic Surveillance |
ERCP | |
Proctoscopy | |
Flexible sigmoidoscopy | Diagnostic Therapeutic |
Capsule endoscopy | |
EBUS |
Therapeutic interventions |
Stents |
Laser treatment |
Bleeding |
Endo mucosal resections (EMR) |
Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) |
Percutaneous endoscopic colopexy (PEC) |
Non endoscopic tests carried out in endoscopy unit |
Hydrogen breath test |
C13 breath test |
Infliximab infusions |
Transperineal prostate biopsy |
Supported services |
Bronchoscopy |
Thoracoscopy |
Flexible cystoscopy |
Other services – including EUS, oesophageal ablation and manometry – are referred to other hospitals as part of specialist treatment arrangements, including Watford General, St Marks in North-west London, UCLH and the Royal Free (both in central London) and Addenbrokes in Cambridge.