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Consultant Profile

Mr Peter Driscoll

Name:
Mr Peter Driscoll MBBS, BSc, FRCSEd, MD
Practising at:
Spire Murrayfield Hospital Edinburgh
Specialties:
  • General surgery
    • Minimal access surgery
    • Hernia repair surgery
    • Laparoscopic surgery
    • Gastrointestinal surgery
    • Endoscopy
    • Pancreatic and biliary surgery
Special clinical interests:

Complex laparoscopic surgery
Abdominal wall hernia surgery
Gallstone disease

Research interests:

Emergency surgery
Oesophago-gastric disorders
Abdominal wall hernia
Surgical training and assessment
Surgical audit

Current NHS and /or university posts:

Fellow of The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
Association of Upper Gastrointestinal Surgeons (AUGIS)
British Obesity and Metabolic Surgeons Society (BOMSS)

 

Year of first medical qualification:
1996
Current membership(s) of professional, national and regional bodies:

Consultant General & Upper Gastrointestinal Surgeon, Queen Margaret Hospital, Dunfermline
Honorary Senior Lecturer, Bute Medical School, University of St.Andrews

 
Contact Details 
Telephone number to make a private appointment:
0131 316 2530 or 07711 747 911
Private secretary telephone number:
01620 826686
Personal email address:
p.driscoll@nhs.net
Availability:
Alternate Wednesday afternoons
 
Background Information 
Professional profile:

I studied Physiology (and golf) at St.Andrews University (1987-1991), then went on to study Medicine at The Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead, London (1991-1996). Having taught anatomy and worked in A&E for a year I moved back to Scotland to a training post in Edinburgh in 1998, where I stayed for the entirety of my surgical training and during which time I was awarded an MD in surgical training and assessment. I completed my training in Edinburgh and, following a fellowship to Melbourne, returned to take up a post as an Upper GI and General Surgery consultant in Fife, a post closely linked to Edinburgh via the south-east Scotland cancer network. I am also Honorary Senior Lecturer to the Bute Medical School in St.Andrews University.

I specialise in abdominal laparoscopic surgery, all types of hernia surgery and take a keen interest in the training of both medical students, from Edinburgh and St.Andrews Universities, and junior surgeons as they rotate through the Fife unit. I also teach on courses for The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.

Personal profile:

Although I work in Fife, I currently live in East Lothian with my wife and two children, so it is just as well that I enjoy all forms of driving. Life is always busy with two young children, but I manage to keep fit(ish) and maintain the house and garden. I enjoy clay and game shooting when I can find the time and having sacrificed golf on the altar of surgical training, I am gradually returning to the game and, with luck, somewhere near to my St.Andrews handicap.

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Mr Peter Driscoll, Consultant General & Upper Gastrointestinal Surgeon, Spire Murrayfield Hospital Edinburgh

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