Hospital Profile

 

Luton and Dunstable Hospital is a large 695-bed district general hospital that serves a population of more than 350,000 in the surrounding geographical region. It has the only Bariatric unit in the East of England deanery and hence a popular rotation for UGI trainees. There are also well-established Colorectal and Breast consultants within the department.

 

 

Subspecialty training opportunities

 

• UGI - Large high volume Bariatric unit (6 consultants). Also perform other UGI and HPB benign procedures.
• Colorectal - Colorectal cancer service (6 consultants). Cancer and benign procedures performed within a busy unit.
• Breast - Cancer and benign service (3 consultants)

 

 

Established Surgical Trainers

 

Mr Periyathambi Jambulingam, Mr Omer Al-Taan, Mr Aruna Munasinghe, Mr Roy Gurprashad, Mr Shashank Gurjar, Ms Katherine Brown, Mr Parthasarathi, Mr Douglas Whitelaw

 

 

SpR Rota information

 

6 NTN registrars and 6 non-NTN registrars

On call commitments include 12 hour shifts (day and night). Second registrar on CEPOD operating during weekdays (08:00-17:30). On weekends, there is also a second registrar during ward rounds. Free on call room available.

 

 

Rota manager/Annual &study leave contact

 

Jeevline Jeyakumar                          Telephone:     07929 017747                         Email:     Jeevline.jeyakumar@ldh.nhs.uk

 

 

Travel/geographical information

 

Address:     Lewsey Road, Luton, Bedfordshire, LU4 0DZ

Switchboard:     01582 491166

On site parking available for staff

The nearest train station is Luton (direct bus service to hospital)

Hospital is accessible via M1