Mr Philip Conaghan

Philip Conaghan was appointed to the General Surgery Department at the Royal Berkshire as a colorectal and general surgeon in 2009. He graduated from Oxford University Medical School in 1995 and subsequently trained in Norwich, London and then back in Oxford. Following the completion of surgical training in 2008 he secured one of the prestigious Ethicon laparoscopic colorectal fellowships in Nottingham in 2008 before being appointed to the Royal Berkshire. He was awarded a DM post-graduate degree from Oxford University for his research into bowel cancer.

I specialise in colorectal surgery including laparoscopic (keyhole) bowel surgery for bowel cancer and inflammatory bowel disease, the treatment of perianal conditions such as haemorrhoids, fissures and fistulae and all types of abdominal wall and groin hernias and procedures. I am experienced in diagnostic and therapeutic colonoscopy and flexible sigmoidoscopy as well as diagnostic gastroscopies (OGD). I have an excellent completion record (>98.5% for 2016-2021) and polyp-detection record for colonoscopy and I carry out over 200 colonoscopies per year.