West Midlands Colorectal is an established, private company offering excellence in Colorectal Surgery and General Surgery. Mr. Jonathan J.R. Richardson provides private surgical services at the following locations: - The Priory Hospital, Priory Road, Edgbaston, B5 7UG - The Edgbaston Hospital, Somerset Road, Edgbaston, B15 2QQ - Sutton Medical Consulting Centre, Tamworth Road, Sutton Coldfield, B75 6DX Mr. Richardson conducts outpatient clinic consultations for major and minor bowel symptoms and general surgical symptoms including: - Rectal bleeding - Changes in bowel habit: constipation, diarrhoea, alternating constipation and diarrhoea - Iron deficiency anaemia - Abdominal pain - Abdominal mass - Anal pain - Anal itching - Haemorrhoids - Groin and abdominal wall hernias - Benign skin lesions (lumps and bumps) Mr. Richardson provides the following diagnostic investigations and therapeutic interventions: - Bedside diagnostic tests and interventions (proctoscopy, rigid sigmoidoscopy, rubber-band ligation of haemorrhoids) - A comprehensive diagnostic and therapeutic lower GI endoscopy service (colonoscopy / flexible sigmoidoscopy, polypectomy / endoscopic mucosal resection) - A complete laparoscopic and open surgery practice for colorectal diseases (colon cancer, rectal cancer, locally advanced colorectal cancer, anal cancer, diverticular disease, Inflammatory Bowel Disease [Ulcerative Colitis, Crohn’s Disease]) - A comprehensive coloproctology service for the management of haemorrhoids, anal fissure, peri-anal skin-tags, peri-anal sepsis (peri-anal abscess / fistula), natal cleft sepsis (pilonidal abscess / sinus) and rectal prolapse - An expert general surgery service including the management of appendicitis, provision of diagnostic laparoscopy, hernia surgery and surgical excision of benign skin lesions West Midlands Colorectal welcomes referrals from throughout the United Kingdom. E-mail: westmidlandscolorectal@btinternet.com