Dr Nicolas Hudson

Practising at

Spire South Bank Hospital

Treatment information

Some of the principal treatments carried out by Dr Nicolas Hudson at Spire include:

Gastroenterology

• Flexible sigmoidoscopy
• Bowel surgery, colostomy and ileostomy
• Gastroscopy

General surgery

• Colonoscopy

Other treatments

Professional profile

I trained at Birmingham Medical School in spring 2000. My MD thesis at University Hospital Nottingham was in gastro-intestinal injury associated with NSAIDS. I was appointed senior registrar in gastroenterology at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary before appointment as Consultant Gastroenterologist at City Hospital Birmingham in 1995. I moved to Worcester Royal Infirmary in spring 2000.

I have a keen interest in all aspects of clinical gastroenterology, particularly diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopy, colonoscopy and ERCP. I recently set up a video capsule endoscopy service for examination of the small intestine with a swallowed pill camera. I have a long established clinical practice in all aspects of Gastroenterology and follow up a large cohort of patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease, liver and biliary disease and runs the National IBD Audit programme for the Worcestershire Hospitals. In 2007 I set up a Video Capsule Endoscopy (VCE service) to allow detailed imaging of the small intestine mucosa and to date have performed over 260 procedures.

I have a large clinical practice in inflammatory bowel disease. I maintain a large endoscopic workload performing over 1,200 Upper GI endoscopies, 500 Colonoscopies (caecal intubation rate >95%) and 130 ERCPs cannulation rate (biliary cannulation >90%) per annum. I provide a wide ranging therapeutic endoscopy service including: Polyp removal (polypectomy) and endoscopic mucosal resection (EMR) in the stomach and colon, Oesophageal stricture balloon dilatation and variceal banding. In conjunction with a fellow Gastroenterologist I provide the majority of endoscopic stenting for oesophageal, duodenal and biliary obstruction and recently introduced a colonic stenting service for bowel obstruction.

Qualification and professional memberships

Professional memberships

The Royal College of Physicians
British Society of Gastroenterology

Current NHS posts

Consultant Gastroenterologist and General Physician

Worcester Royal Hospital 2000-

Clinical Sub Dean for Birmingham Medical School. WRH 2001-2005

Chair 5^th year curriculum Committee, Birmingham Medical School 2005-2012

Royal College of Physicians Clinical Examiner (PACES Membership examinations)

Clinical Director Medical Specialties Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust 2014-

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