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St Mark's Hospital Foundation is a charitable arm of St Marks Hospital Harrow, the UK's only specialist hospital for colorectal disease.
About St Mark's
St. Mark's Hospital is a national and international referral centre for intestinal and colorectal disorders.
As well as clinical services covering all aspects of colorectal disease and intestinal failure, it has many research interests and a very active programme of teaching and education.
Latest News
Complex Management of Colorectal Cancer Study Day
Date: Friday 12th March 2010
Course Convenor: Professor John Northover
Professor Northover is organising a surgical course focusing on the management of complex colorectal cancer.
A dynamic and innovating programme that will include talks by the various experts who are involved in managing complex patients.
Faculty:
Prof T Briggs
Mr N Carr
Ms S Clark
Mr D Greenstein
Prof T Guenther
Dr A Gupta
Mr T Ind
Mr V Izegbu
Dr K Konieczko
Prof John Northover
Ms S O'Dwyer
Mr D Ross
Mr P Sagar
Ms A Senapati
Mr P Tekkis
Mr J Warusavitarne
Cost:
Consultant Surgeons: £275.00
Specialist Registrar & Trainee: £175.00
Nurses: £125.00
Click here to download the programme
How to apply:
Click here for the application form in Microsoft Word DOC version and email the completed application form to stmarksacademicinstitute@nwlh.nhs.uk or you can purchase tickets via St Mark's online shop. Otherwise you can fax the application form to St Mark's Academic Institute on 0208 235 4039.
For further information contact the Academic Institute.
National training programme in Laparoscopic Colorectal Surgery
St. Mark's Hospital is offering consultant surgeons the opportunity to train in Laparoscopic Colorectal surgery under the guidance of Mr Robin Kennedy.
The national training programme is being rolled out as an initiative under the leadership of Professor Mike Richards, the Department of Health's Cancer Action Team.
The training will enable the qualified consultant surgeons to develop a similar process within their own hospital.
For further information, please contact St. Mark's Hospital's National Training Programme Co-ordinator, Astra Tertullien on 020 8235 4108.
St. Mark's official opening of laparoscopic theatre
On 17th November 2008, TV presenter Lynn Faulds-Wood, founder of Lynn's Bowel Cancer Campaign, and TV broadcaster John Stapleton officially opened the newly built laparoscopic theatre.
The theatre combines the latest high-tech equipment and high definition imaging, allowing surgeons to carry out complex surgery by making only small incisions. Also offering not only less invasive surgery but faster recovery times for patients.
St Mark's is one of only a few hospitals in London to use keyhole surgery for advanced complex procedures such as removal of the bowel. The new theatre will also benefit other patients with urological and gynaecological problems.
Robin Kennedy, Consultant Surgeon at St Mark's, gave a presentation, which included a live demonstration of keyhole surgery, transmitted in high definition from the new theatre.
Click here for the Daily Mail article - Laparoscopic Bowel Surgery: St Mark's consultant surgeon, Mr Robin Kennedy, features in Daily Mail's Me and My Operation about one woman's life-saving laparoscopic bowel surgery.
State of the art theatre to cut recovery time for patients in half
Patients at St Mark's Hospital are benefitting from the most advanced surgery in the UK, thanks to a new £500,000 state-of-the-art theatre.
The laparoscopic theatre, one of only a few in the country, combines the latest high tech equipment and high definition imaging, allowing surgeons to carry out complex surgery by making only small incisions.
Equipment in the theatre is suspended from the ceiling by mechanical arms so that lighting and camera angles can be controlled by computers at the simple touch of a button.
St Mark's is one of only a few hospitals in London to use keyhole surgery for advanced complex procedures such as removal of the bowel. But the new theatre will also benefit other patients with urological and gynaecological problems.
Laparoscopic or ‘keyhole' surgery is a technique whereby cameras are inserted into the body so the surgeon can watch what he is doing on a monitor. It means that only a small cut needs to be made which considerably improves the outcome for patients. It reduces the risk of infection, the length of time they need to stay in hospital and shortens recovery.
Surgeon Mr Robin Kennedy explained: "As one of only 16 hospitals to become a national training centre for laparoscopic colorectal surgery we will be using this theatre to train surgeons of the future. The new system also creates high definition images which are essential for the teaching we do both in the UK and worldwide.
"This theatre is purpose built for the keyhole surgery techniques we now use to remove the bowel. Combined with our enhanced recovery programme we are able to reduce the time in hospital after major bowel surgery. In the past people used to have to stay 10 or more days and take at least two to four months to recover fully. Now they stay four days and look fully recovered after two to four weeks."
The theatre will treat 1,000 patients a year and opened in June.
(For more information contact the press office on 020 8869 2421/3552)
Daily Mail - Laparoscopic Bowel Surgery
St Mark's consultant surgeon, Mr Robin Kennedy, features in Daily Mail's Me and My Operation about one woman's life-saving laparoscopic bowel surgery.
St Mark's Hospital in Harrow has been recognised as a Centre of Excellence by the World Organisation of Digestive Endoscopy (Organisation Mondiale d'Endoscopie Digestive), OMED.
The hospital, run by The North West London Hospitals NHS Trust, is a national and internationally renowned referral centre for intestinal and colorectal disorders and a national centre for endoscopy training. It is the only hospital in the UK and one of 14 hospitals worldwide to become an OMED centre of excellence.
Dr Brian Saunders, director of the Wolfson Unit for Endoscopy at St Mark's said:
"To be singled out in such a way is a major honour for St Mark's and confirms our place as a world leader in clinical care and research for diseases of the bowel. This is good news for patients as we continue to be at the cutting edge of new treatments. Our mission is to prevent bowel cancer and treat pre-cancer with the most advanced minimally invasive endoscopic techniques."
OMED President Anthony Axon said:
"OMED would like to recognise an elite group of endoscopic centres that have established an outstanding reputation for delivering international education in the field of digestive endoscopy. Membership is limited to centres with an outstanding track record. "
Last year St Mark's Hospital was chosen as London's first bowel cancer screening centre, serving more than a million people locally. It also provides follow-up care for people who have had an abnormal result.
You can find out more about the Wolfson Unit for Endoscopy by visiting www.wolfsonendoscopy.org.uk
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