Paediatric Surgery at Bristol Royal Hospital for Children

What we do

We provide a comprehensive specialist outpatients service for all secondary and tertiary paediatric general surgical conditions for the Southwest region. This service is for children from 0-15 years. We offer outreach clinics in Plymouth, Truro, Torbay, Exeter, Taunton, Yeovil, Cheltenham and Gloucester.

Our specialisms

• We offer a fully comprehensive surgical gastroenterology service, including both upper and lower gastrointestinal surgery
• Neonatal surgery
• Congenital lung lesions
• We offer a joint surgical and gastroenterology clinic for inflammatory bowel disease and gastro-oesophageal Reflux
• Antenatal counselling is offered in conjunction with the Fetal Medicine Department at St Michael’s Hospital
• We provide a multidisciplinary paediatric oncology service

Conditions we treat

• Hernias – inguinal and umbilical
• Pathological phimosis
• Undescended testes
• Hydrocoeles
• Thyroglossal cysts
• Haemangiomas and lymphangiomas
• Hypertrophic pyloric stenosis
• Congenital anomalies of the gastrointestinal tract and lung
• Gastro-oeophageal reflux

Treatments we offer

• Herniotomies
• Circumcision (only for pathological phimosis, not for cultural reasons)
• Orchidopexy +/- laparoscopy for undescended testes
• Ligation of processusus vaginalis for persistent hydrocoeles
• Pyloromyotomy for pyloric stenosis
• Fundoplication for gastro-oesophageal reflux – open or laparoscopic

Contact us

You can contact us on 0117 342 8839 and 0117 342 8676