Endoscopy
Endoscopy is a diagnostic test which uses a long, tube-like optical viewing instrument (endoscope) to look inside the body. Treatments are offered as day stay and inpatients.
Services available
- colonoscopy
- gastroscopy
- flexible sigmoidoscopies
- endoscopic ultrasound examination
- ERCPs.
Further information about all these services can be found in endoscopic procedures.
Making an appointment
Patients should be referred by a GP.
Endoscopy procedures are carried out from Monday to Friday.
Direct GP rapid access referral.
How to contact us
To change or cancel an appointment please contact our booked admissions team on 020 8510 7507 or 7697.
To contact the nurse for advice regarding your procedure or afterwards call 07771 914 494.
To contact the medical secretaries call 020 8510 7538.
Key staff
Rachel Ozigbo
Endoscopy manager
Dr Ray Shidrawi
Consultant physician and gastroenterologist with a special interest in luminal gastroenterology, liver disease and interventional endoscopy including ERCP and EUS
Dr Neil Ikin
Consultant gastroenterologist
Joy Sadeghian
Gastroenterology nurse specialist/endoscopist
Miss Helen Pardoe
General surgeon with a special interest in colorectal surgery, with an emphasis on colorectal cancer. She is happy to see female patients who would prefer to be seen by a woman
Mr Femi Olagbaiye
Consultant surgeon
Dr Eleanor Wood
Consultant gastroenterologist and physician with a special interest in inflammatory bowel disease. Dr Wood is also director of medical education at Homerton Hospital
Mr Kesava Mannur
Consultant surgeon (upper GI laparoscopic surgeon) with a special interest in upper GI cancers including oesophageal and gastric cancers, gastro oesophageal reflux, obesity and advanced laparoscopic surgery (laparoscopic gastric banding, gastric bypass, sleeve gastroectomy, duodenal switch and revisional obesity surgery), hernias (groin and incisional) and gallstones
Mrs Kalpana Devalia
Upper GI and bariatric surgeon with a special interest in minimally invasive surgery, bariatric surgery: laparoscopic gastric banding, gastric bypass, sleeve gastrectomy, upper GI : laparoscopic cholecystectomy, laparoscopic hernia repair, laparoscopic anti-reflux surgery and repair of hiatus hernia







