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Dr Bruce Macfarlane

Name:
Dr Bruce Macfarlane FRCP, PhD
Practising at:
Spire Bushey Hospital
Specialties:
  • Gastroenterology
    • Liver disease
    • Inflammatory bowel disease
    • Endoscopy
    • Colonoscopy
Special clinical interests:
Hepatology and Inflammatory bowel disease, gastro-oesophageal reflux disease, iron deficiency anaemia, evaluation of abnormal liver function tests, All endoscopy (colonoscopy, upper GIT and ERCP)
Current NHS and /or university posts:

West Herts Hospital NHS Trust

Year of first medical qualification:
1982
Current membership(s) of professional, national and regional bodies:
British Society of Gastroenterology
Royal College of Physicians
 
Contact Details 
Telephone number to make a private appointment:
020 8901 5555
Private secretary telephone number:
Melita Hird 020 8901 0315
Private secretary email address:
melita.hird@spirehealthcare.com
Personal email address:
bruce.macfarlane@whht.nhs.uk
Availability:
Clinics on Monday mornings and Saturday mornings, theatre session on Thursday mornings
 
Background Information 
Professional profile:
Dr Macfarlane qualified from the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, and completed my PhD in iron deficiency anaemia in the MRC Iron and Red Cell Metabolism Unit. He emigrated to the UK in 1989. He trained in Gastroenterology and Hepatology at the Royal Free Hospital and was awarded a CCST (Certificate of Completion of Specialist Training) in Gastroenterology and General Internal Medicine in 1996.

In 2008 Dr Macfarlane passed the National Accreditation Examination for screening colonoscopists, a prerequisite to perform colonoscopy in the NHS bowel cancer screening programme (his NHS base Endoscopy Unit is a second wave bowel cancer screening unit).
Personal profile:
I am married with two daughters.

My main interests outside medicine are mountain climbing and rugby.

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Dr Bruce Macfarlane Gastroenterology Consultant, Bushey, Watford, private hospital specialist.



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