News and events

Spire Dunedin Hospital, Reading, has partnered with Goring and Woodcote Surgery to create a community-based outpatient clinic, where Ophthalmic Surgeon Martin Leyland will be able to assess you, as a private patient.

The shoulder is the most flexible joint in the body, enabling a wide range of movements including forward flexion, abduction, adduction, external rotation, internal rotation, and 360-degree circumduction. This ability to be multi-directional means the shoulder joint is considered the most insecure joint of the body. It is only as a result of the support of ligaments, muscles and tendons that the required stability of function is achieved. It is therefore not a surprise that it can be easily and repeatedly injured.

It’s a well-known fact – being overweight could lead to a string of other health conditions and subsequent co-morbidity. Coupled with the statistics showing that obesity is rapidly increasing in the UK, body mass is becoming a weighty issue.

Many people have heard of Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) but, incorrectly, believe it’s caused by advancing age or overuse of joints. Here at Spire Dunedin Hospital, with the help of Consultant Rheumatologist Antoni Chan, we’re hoping to raise awareness of the condition that can be controlled and stabilised with targeted treatment, so that sufferers are able to lead normal lives.

There are many factors that cause people to investigate a clinical rather than ‘club’ approach to weight loss, just as there is a difference between needing to ‘lose a few pounds’ and needing to lose weight because a person’s BMI is over 30 (which can be categorised as clinically obese). With the rise in obesity - and the need for government initiatives as a result of this - even if you personally don’t have weight issue it is likely that you have a friend or family member with a weight problem.

Here at Spire Dunedin Hospital, Reading, we are encouraging you to take protective action, and learn your skin lesion ‘ABC’ , as part of Sun Awareness week.

Spire Dunedin Hospital has entered into a joint venture with Mr Vaughan Tanner, Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon, enabling those seeking treatment for eye conditions access to additional state of the art ophthalmic surgical equipment.

The weather is warming up and short sleeves and sunglasses are becoming part of many women’s staple wardrobe. But if you’re a busy mum who dreads the move into summer clothes, having hidden post baby tummy in baggy jumpers or jackets over the winter, then you have probably looked into a ‘Mummy Makeover’.

This March we are holding our first free weight loss treatment discussion evening, with our weight loss team, Bariatric and General Surgeons Mr Greg Jones, Ms Marianne Sampson and Mr James Ramus, Bariatric Nurse Kath Hallworth-Cook, and Specialist Weight Loss Dietitian Lisa Lovell. You can discuss treatment options, aftercare, pricing and ask any questions you might have regarding the procedures we offer.

Two of the UK’s leading bowel cancer charities have joined forces and set themselves the ambitious task of ensuring that, by 2050, virtually no-one will die of bowel cancer! Spire Dunedin Hospital General Surgeon Simon Middleton discusses the signs and symptoms of the condition and urges people to return their screening results if they have a kit.