Name and Position

Mr Richard England
Consultants
Paediatric & Neonatal Surgery

Contact Details

Main Telephone Number:01603 286556

Profile

Department page: Jenny Lind Children’s Hospital

Specialty: Paediatric Surgery

Special clinical interests: Paediatric Colorectal Surgery; Paediatric Bowel Management and Faecal incontinence

Research Interests: Paediatric Bowel Management, Colonic motility disorders, Metagenomic profiling of microbiome in slow transit constipation and Hirschsprung’s Disease.

Secretary: Alexandra Clarke

Current memberships of professional national and regional bodies: British Association of Paediatric Surgeons

GMC Number: 4615705

Professional Profile:  Mr England grew up in West Norfolk and studied Medicine in Sheffield. He continued specialist training in Sheffield and Leeds and undertook a fellowship in Cape Town.  He passed the FRCS (Paed Surg) in 2009 and became a consultant initially in Leeds in 2012. He moved back to Norfolk in 2013 to take up his current position as consultant in paediatric surgery here at the Jenny Lind Children’s Hospital.

He now specialises in paediatric colorectal surgery and runs the Jenny Lind Paediatric Bowel Management Service. He is now developing research interests in this area alongside experts in the gut microbiome at Quadram Institute of Bioscience.

Over the last 5 years he has been fascinated by the treasure trove of documents in the Norfolk archives relating to Jenny Lind’s link with the city, as well as some of the other illustrious characters who walked the wards of the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital. He is honorary secretary of the Norwich Medico-Chirurgical Society and a member of the Swedish Jenny Lind Society.