What we do
We provide a comprehensive specialist outpatients service for all secondary and tertiary paediatric general surgical conditions for the Southwest region. This service is for children from 0-15 years. We offer outreach clinics in Plymouth, Truro, Torbay, Exeter, Taunton, Yeovil, Cheltenham and Gloucester.
Our specialisms
- We offer a fully comprehensive surgical gastroenterology service, including both upper and lower gastrointestinal surgery
- Neonatal surgery
- Congenital lung lesions
- We offer a joint Surgical and Gastroenterology Clinic for Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Gastro-oesophageal Reflux
- Antenatal counselling is offered in conjunction with the Fetal Medicine Department at St Michael's Hospital
- We provide a multidisciplinary paediatric oncology service
Conditions we treat
- Hernias - Inguinal and Umbilical
- Pathological Phimosis
- Undescended Testes
- Hydrocoeles
- Thyroglossal Cysts
- Haemangiomas and lymphangiomas
- Hypertrophic Pyloric Stenosis
- Congenital Anomalies of the gastrointestinal tract and lung
- Gastro-oeophageal Reflux
Treatments we offer
- Herniotomies
- Circumcision (only for pathological phimosis, not for cultural reasons)
- Orchidopexy +/- laparoscopy for undescended testes
- Ligation of processusus vaginalis for persistent hydrocoeles
- Pyloromyotomy for pyloric stenosis
- Fundoplication for gastro-oesophageal reflux - open or laparoscopic
Contact us
You can contact us on (0117) 342 8820 / 8839 / 8825.
