Hospital Profile

 

Lister Hospital is a large 730 bed District General Hospital based in Stevenage. It has been recently repatriated back to East of England from the London training deanery. The surgical department includes 5 Colorectal, 2 UGI, 2 Breast, 4 Vascular and 2 Emergency hybrid surgical consultants. Breast surgery is predominantly based at the Queen Elizabeth 2 (QE2) Hospital where the breast unit resides. Peripheral clinics can be based at the QE2 hospital and Hertford County Hospital.

 

 

Subspecialty training opportunities

 

• UGI - Benign unit excluding bariatric surgery (2 consultants). Includes excellent endoscopy training.
• Colorectal - Busy colorectal cancer service (5 consultants) with high level of laparoscopic resectional numbers performed within the unit. Developing robotic resectional service.
• Breast - Varied number of breast oncological and benign procedures performed at QE2 Hospital.
• Vascular - Experienced vascular department (4 consultants) performing a wide variety of arterial and venous cases.
• Emergency - Established emergency surgery consultants optimising emergency training provided.

 

 

Established Surgical Trainers

 

Mr Sanjay Gupta, Mr Vivek Gupta, Mr Nick Reay-Jones, Mr Gary Atkin, Ms Santhini Jeyarajah, Mr Eriberto Farinella, Mr Geraint Lloyd, Mr Sadasivam Selvakumar, Mr Mike Guest, Mr Matthew Metcalfe

 

 

SpR Rota information

 

4 NTN registrars and 6 non-NTN registrars

On call commitments include 12 hour day and night on call shifts.

 

 

Rota manager/Annual & study leave contact

Julie Boughton                      Telephone:     01438 314333 (x5943)                       Email:     Julie.boughton@nhs.net

 

 

Travel/geographical information

 

Address:      Coreys Mill Lane, Stevenage, SG1 4AB

Switchboard:      01438 314333

On site parking available for staff with Car Sharing Scheme

Closest train station is Stevenage (National Rail)

Hospital is accessible from A1(M)