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Endoscopy

The Booking Team at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital

0300 422 6350

or

0300 422 6351

The Booking Team at Cheltenham General Hospital

0300 422 6899

or

0300 422 6359

Our aim is to provide the very highest standards of care to patients and relatives alike ensuring privacy and dignity are maintained at all times.

An endoscopy is a procedure where the inside of your body is examined using an instrument called an endoscope. Read more about Endscopy

Our two Endoscopy Units at Gloucestershire Royal and Cheltenham General Hospitals care for adult men and women, as both inpatients and outpatients, undergoing a variety of endoscopic procedures.

Our main procedures are:

  • Gastroscopy
  • EUS (Endoscopic Ultra Sound)
  • Flexible Sigmoidoscopy
  • TRUS (Trans Rectal Ultra Sound)
  • Colonoscopy
  • Enteroscopy
  • Video Capsule Endoscopy
  • Bronchoscopy
  • EBUS ( Endoscopic bronchial Ultra Sound)
  • PEG (Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastroscopy) insertion, changes and removal
  • Colonical stenting
  • ERCP (endoscopic retrograde cholangio-pancreatography).

Consultants

Dr John Anderson
Prof Hugh Barr
Mr David Hewin

Wards

Endoscopy Unit (Cheltenham)
Endoscopy Unit (Gloucester)

Information Leaflets

Having a Video Capsule Endsocopy (VCE) GHPI1247_08_18
pdf - 335.1 KB
How to take your bowel preparation: for a standard afternoon appointment GHPI1135
pdf - 515.2 KB
How to take your Bowel Preparation For a standard morning appointment GHPI1136_08_20
pdf - 600.4 KB
How to take your Bowel Preparation For afternoon appointments using Klean Prep GHPI1137_08_20
pdf - 522.4 KB
How to take your bowel preparation for a morning appointment using Klean Prep GHPI1138_08_20
pdf - 600.4 KB
How to take your Bowel Preparation For a gastroscopy and colonoscopy afternoon appointment (using Klean Prep) GHPI1164_08_20.pdf
pdf - 521.5 KB
How to take your Bowel Preparation: for a gastroscopy and colonoscopy standard afternoon appointment
pdf - 607.1 KB
How to take your bowel preparation: for a gastroscopy and colonoscopy standard morning appointment
pdf - 524.2 KB
Giving yourself a Clyssie(TM) enema GHPI1359_02_20
pdf - 659.0 KB
Undergoing a colonoscopy as an outpatient GHPI1077_08_20
pdf - 586.4 KB
Flexible sigmoidoscopy GHPI1079_08_20
pdf - 629.3 KB
Undergoing a gastroscopy as an outpatient GHPI1081_08_20
pdf - 600.5 KB
Undergoing a Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy (PEG) Tube procedure GHPI1117_02_19
pdf - 298.7 KB
How to take your Bowel Preparation For a gastroscopy and colonoscopy afternoon appointment (using Klean Prep) GHPI1138_08_20
pdf - 520.1 KB
How to take your bowel preparation For a gastroscopy and colonoscopy standard morning appointment GHPI1167_08_20
pdf - 524.3 KB
Undergoing a gastroscopy with colonoscopy GHPI1210_02_20
pdf - 647.7 KB
How to take your bowel preparation for an afternoon appointment using Plenvu® GHPI1496_02_20
pdf - 521.3 KB
How to take your bowel preparation for a gastroscopy and colonoscopy morning appointment using Plenvu GHPI1494_02_20
pdf - 521.2 KB
How to take your bowel preparation for a morning appointment using Plenvu GHPI1495_08_20
pdf - 521.1 KB
Discharge advice following a Gastroscopy and RFA or EMR with sedation GHPI1515_01_21
pdf - 561.7 KB
Discharge advice following a non-sedated colonoscopy - flexible sigmoidoscopy GHPI1516_01_21
pdf - 556.4 KB
Discharge advice following an ERCP procedure GHPI1517_01_21
pdf - 559.6 KB
Discharge advice following a gastroscopy with sedation GHPI1518_01_21
pdf - 557.3 KB
Discharge advice following a gastroscopy without sedation GHPI1519_02_20
pdf - 510.3 KB
Discharge advice following a non-sedated colonoscopy - flexible sigmoidoscopy GHPI1520_02_20
pdf - 556.2 KB
Discharge advice following banding of piles (haemorrhoids) GHPI1521_02_20
pdf - 514.6 KB
Discharge advice following therapeutic gastroscopy inc banding of varices - Endoscopic dilatation GHPI1522_01_21
pdf - 560.4 KB
Undergoing a gastroscopy (OGD) as an inpatient GHPI1477_12_18
pdf - 573.0 KB
Endoscopic Ultrasound (EUS) GHPI1208_02_20
pdf - 571.4 KB
Oesophageal Endoscopic Resection (ER) GHPI1209_01_20
pdf - 574.2 KB
Gastroscopy with Radiofrequency Ablation (RFA) for oesophageal dysplasia GHPI1215_03_20
pdf - 557.6 KB
Bowel prep for an afternoon appointment using Plenvu® GHPI1496_08_20
pdf - 523.5 KB
Having a bronchoscopy GHPI0559_07_20
pdf - 563.2 KB
Information about day case ERCP (Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangio-Pancreatography) GHPI0546_07_20
pdf - 560.2 KB
Pacemaker (PPM) Advice for going home GHPI1170_08_19
pdf - 552.5 KB
Having an enteroscopy GHPI1246
pdf - 602.1 KB
Having a colonoscopy and polyp removal as an outpatient GHPI1596
pdf - 488.0 KB
Endoscopy easy read leaflet GHPI1424
pdf - 1.7 MB
Covid-19 testing for patients attending the Endoscopy Department GHPI1620
pdf - 411.5 KB
Covid-19 testing for patients attending the Endoscopy Department GHPI1620
pdf - 411.3 KB
Discharge advice following a bronchoscopy GHPI1631
pdf - 411.2 KB
Aftercare following insertion of a PEG feeding tube GHPI1636
pdf - 407.3 KB
Self-administration of a phosphate enema GHPI1236_01_21
pdf - 432.0 KB
Propofol sedation for endoscopic procedures GHPI1658
pdf - 625.9 KB
Discharge advice following a thoracoscopy GHPI1646
pdf - 596.1 KB

Also of interest

Coming to Endoscopy (easy read) GHPI1424_06_17

Having a Video Capsule Endoscopy (VCE) GHPI1247_08_18

Endoscopy Unit (Gloucester)

Endoscopy Unit (Cheltenham)
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