Gastroenterology consultants in Hastings

Gastroenterology is the field of medicine that covers the health of the digestive system. Therefore, if you start to experience unpleasant effects in this area of the body, including regular abdominal pain or diarrhoea, it is a gastroenterologist you will want to see.

At Spire Sussex Hospital, the highly skilled team of gastroenterologists serve the Hastings area with quality care. With lots of experience in the field and all the latest tools to hand, including tests and scans like colonoscopies, the team can diagnose and care for all kinds of common gastroenterological complaints.

Find out a little more about Spire’s gastroenterologists in Hastings 

Treatments offered in Hastings

At Spire Sussex, the private gastroenterologists near Eastbourne provide fast access to treatment. Once they’ve used all the latest tools and technology to get you diagnosed, they’ll quickly move forward with a plan to improve your long-term health and prognosis. This is likely to involve an operation the team are extensively trained in, including procedures like:

• Cancer – bowel cancer screening & prevention.
• Colon investigations – colon cancer, colon polyps, colon polypectomy.
• Gastro-oesophageal reflux disease, dyspepsia, gastric and duodenal ulcers.
• Inflammatory bowel conditions – coeliac disease, ulcerative colitis, Crohn’s disease.
• Liver – fatty liver disease, alcohol related liver disease, liver cirrhosis, abnormal liver tests and autoimmune/drug induced liver disease, jaundice.
• Nutritional aspects of gastrointestinal diseases including anemia.
• Pancreatology – pancreatic disorders.

Conditions treated in Hastings

The usual signs of a digestive condition include things like indigestion and abdominal pain occurring unusually often. If that sounds like you, don’t wait to discuss things with the team at Spire Sussex Hospital. The skilled gastroenterologists near Bexhill-on-Sea are ready to provide care for common complaints like:

• Coeliac disease
• Crohn's disease
• Irritable bowel syndrome
• Stomach ulcer

Symptoms treated in Hastings

There are a range of symptoms which can be attributed to a gastroenterological issue, but one thing these have in common is that they’re usually unpleasant and painful. It shouldn’t have to be like this, which is why the team at Spire Sussex do everything they can to ensure you live free from things like:

• Abdominal pain
• Constipation
• Diarrhoea
• Heartburn
• Indigestion

Test and scans carried out in Hastings

If symptoms like diarrhoea and heartburn are all too common for you, talk about this with the team at Spire Sussex as soon as you can. Once they know what symptoms you’re experiencing, they’ll arrange for you to come in and undergo some tests, making use of technology such as:

• Colonoscopy
• Flexible sigmoidoscopy
• Gastroscopy

Finding us

This will be your nearest Spire Healthcare gastroenterology department if you call places like Battle, Bexhill, Hastings and Rye home. You’ll find our Sussex Hospital easily on the northern outskirts of Hastings, just along a road called The Ridge, which runs between the A21 and A259.