Mrs Sara Badvie

Mrs Sara Badvie is a consultant surgeon in London who is dedicated to providing safe, high quality surgery in an environment of respectful and compassionate patient care. She performs laparoscopic (keyhole) and open operations for general surgical conditions such as groin and abdominal hernias and gallbladder surgery, along with laparoscopic and open operations for bowel conditions. She provides advice and treatment for anorectal conditions such as haemorrhoids, fistulas, rectal bleeding and fissures. Mrs Badvie also performs colonoscopy, flexible sigmoidoscopy and endoscopy with advanced therapies for the removal of bowel polyps. Mrs Badvie was awarded a medical degree with distinction in 1999 from Guy’s & St Thomas’ Hospitals, University of London. During her time at medical school, she additionally won two prizes in surgery, four awards in cancer research, a national scholarship and was awarded a further immunology degree with honours. Following a year teaching anatomy at the Royal Free and University College in London, she gained her early surgical training at Chelsea & Westminster Hospital. Interest in bowel conditions led her to research how polyps develop into bowel cancer, and how to improve measures for early detection of colorectal cancer. She gained a further three awards for her cancer research, which was published and presented to national and international societies and for which she was awarded a Master of Surgery higher degree from the University of London. Mrs Badvie was subsequently offered a place on the highly competitive North West Thames programme of Higher Surgical Training in leading hospitals across London and she consolidated her experiences as a resident surgical officer (RSO) at St Mark’s Hospital, an internationally recognised leading UK centre for colorectal surgery, and as a senior registrar at the highly regarded Royal Marsden Hospital, operating on patients with complex colorectal disease. Following the completion of her training, Mrs Badvie was delighted to return to her medical school to undertake a senior colorectal fellowship at St Thomas’ Hospital, focusing on laparoscopic surgery and advanced colorectal disease. She incorporated a travelling fellowship to Japan to learn specialist techniques used to remove bowel polyps by international leaders in endoscopy. Following her senior fellowships, Mrs Badvie took up a consultant position at the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. In 2015, after 16 years training and working in the NHS, she changed her full-time position to a sessional NHS role. She now works predominantly in the private sector, and continues her teaching and surgical safety interests as a trainer with Imperial College London, leading the Colorectal Surgical Skills Programme.

Colorectal surgery; rectal bleeding; haemorrhoids (piles); anal fistula; anal fissures; pilonidal sinus; changes in bowel habit including constipation and diarrhoea; abdominal pain; all hernia repairs (including inguinal, femoral, incisional, ventral, umbilical, epigastric, recurrent hernias); laparoscopic ('keyhole") surgery; colonoscopy; sigmoidoscopy; proctoscopy; colonic polyps, advanced polypectomy and endoscopic mucosal resection (EMR); gastroscopy; flexible sigmoidoscopy; gastrointestinal symptoms; diverticular disease; proctology; lipoma and skin lesion and cyst removal; gallstones; gallbladder polyps.