Gastroenterology & Endoscopy

Departmental overview

The Gastroenterology Department provides an excellent range of services delivered by our dedicated multidisciplinary team of clinicians, nurses and administrative staff. We strive to deliver the highest quality care through clinical governance and patient feedback and continually improve services.

Endoscopy Unit (Quadram Institute)

A range of our endoscopy and Bowel Cancer Screening Services are based at the Quadram Institute, close to NNUH on Norwich Research Park. Due to increasing demand and a need to screen a broader age range for diagnostic and potential preventative reasons, we’re expanding our services for bowel screening and endoscopy. We also provide a range of high-quality training courses accredited by the Joint Advisory Group on GI Endoscopy (JAG).

The Quadram Institute houses our regional endoscopy service, providing state-of-the-art facilities for patients and where clinicians work alongside scientists to conduct research to improve health and wellbeing. In-patient services remain at the hospital.

The Endoscopy team at Quadram Institute can conduct at least 40,000 procedures a year, making it one of the largest endoscopy centres in Europe.

The multi-million-pound facility is a partnership between NNUH, Quadram Institute Bioscience (formerly the Institute of Food Research) and the University of East Anglia and is a world-class centre for food and health research.

We’re one of the largest teaching hospital trusts in the UK and provide a regional Bowel Screening Programme and one of the biggest Colorectal Surgery and Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Services in the UK.

Getting to the Quadram Institute

Endoscopy Unit (NNUH)

The Endoscopy Unit at NNUH is a dedicated provider of diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopy services, delivered by a team of experts in a comfortable and patient centred environment. The Unit is regularly audited against the Endoscopy Global Rating Scale and consistently achieves high scores for quality of care. The Unit is a national centre of excellence.

Getting to the Endoscopy Unit (NNUH)

 

Gastroenterology Outpatients Department

The Gastroenterology outpatient clinics serve many appointments for new patients as well as follow up patients.

The new outpatient appointments are booked and managed by our centralised booking team based at an offsite premise on Rouen Road and via the Electronic Referral Service (ERS).

Follow-up appointments are booked by the consultant secretaries at the clinician’s request.

The Gastroenterology department offers an excellent range of outpatient clinic sessions from general clinics to specific disease clinics i.e. liver clinics and dedicated specialist nurse clinics for IBD (Inflammatory Bowel Disease), IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome). The department also has a dedicated Upper Gastrointestinal specialist nurse who will attend outpatient clinics when necessary.

The Gastroenterology Outpatients Department is located at Outpatients East Level 3.

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