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Dr Laurence Maiden

Dr Laurence Maiden

Dr Laurence Maiden

Consultant Gastroenterologist
BSc, MBBS, MD, FRCP

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Treatments provided by Dr Maiden

Dr Maiden provides the following procedures at Benenden Hospital:

Gastroscopy in Kent

Gastroscopy

Used when your food pipe (oesophagus), stomach, or top part of the small intestine need to be looked at. This involves putting the endoscope camera down the throat.

Gastroscopy >
Colonoscopy procedure

Colonoscopy

A colonoscopy can check what's causing your bowel symptoms by looking at the lining of your rectum and colon using a long, flexible tube called a colonoscope.

Colonoscopy >
Flexible sigmoidoscopy

Flexible sigmoidoscopy

A procedure to look inside the lower part of the large intestine using a sigmoidoscope; a long, thin flexible tube with a light and camera at the end.

Flexible sigmoidoscopy >
Capsule endoscopy

Capsule endoscopy

An endoscopy can be used to help treat a digestive tract problem or diagnose polyps, which can be removed to prevent the development of colon cancer.

Capsule endoscopy >

Watch our webinar on private endoscopy at Benenden Hospital

Dr Laurence Maiden, Consultant Gastroenterologist, discusses how speedy access to our private endoscopy service - delivered by kind and compassionate staff - is here to help you get better, fast.

About Dr Maiden

I trained at University College and Middlesex School of Medicine, London, gaining a BSc in Anatomy and Basic Medical Sciences before graduating as a doctor in 1993.

Completing my general medical training in Poole, Dorset, I returned to London and South East Thames to complete my specialist training at the Kent & Sussex, Guy's & St Thomas' and King's College Hospitals.

In addition to my work at Benenden Hospital, I am the Chief of Medicine and Emergency Care and a senior consultant in the Department of Gastroenterology at Maidstone & Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust and an accredited colonoscopist on the National Bowel Cancer Screen Programme.

I am the lead for the Gastroenterology service at Benenden Hospital and I offer a patient-centred approach to investigation and management of abdominal symptoms.

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