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The Surgical Units & Team
Our team of surgical specialists brings a wealth of experience and expertise, ensuring the highest standard of patient care.
Acute Care Surgery
Acute Care Surgery stands as the powerhouse of General Surgery, driving the specialty’s urgency, precision, and lifesaving impact. It combines emergency surgery, and critical care into a fast-paced, high-skill discipline that manages the sickest patients at their most vulnerable moments. As the frontline of surgical decision-making, Acute Care Surgery ensures rapid diagnosis, timely intervention, and coordinated multidisciplinary management. Its importance lies not only in saving lives, but in anchoring the entire surgical department – setting the standard for resilience, clinical excellence, and comprehensive patient care.
Trauma Unit
The Trauma Unit stands at the very core of surgical preparedness, serving as the frontline engine of rapid, decisive, and lifesaving care. It delivers immediate, high-stakes interventions for patients experiencing life-threatening injuries, often with minutes determining outcomes. Trauma surgery blends precision, adaptability, and unwavering vigilance, managing complex polytrauma, penetrating injuries, blunt force trauma, and critical emergencies around the clock.
As the heartbeat of emergency surgical response, the Trauma Unit drives coordinated multidisciplinary action – integrating surgeons, emergency physicians, anesthetists, radiology, ICU teams, and prehospital services. Its role extends far beyond resuscitation: it stabilizes the surgical workflow, shapes hospital readiness, and sets the benchmark for teamwork, resilience, and excellence under pressure.
Colorectal Unit
The Colorectal Unit forms a cornerstone of surgical excellence, combining meticulous precision with advanced, evidence-driven care for a wide spectrum of colorectal diseases. From complex oncologic resections and inflammatory bowel disease to functional disorders and minimally invasive techniques, the unit delivers specialised, high-quality management that profoundly impacts patient outcomes and quality of life.
Anchored in expert clinical judgement and modern surgical innovation, the Colorectal Unit ensures accurate diagnosis, individualized treatment planning, and seamless multidisciplinary coordination with gastroenterology, oncology, radiology, and pathology teams. Its commitment to enhanced recovery pathways, organ preservation strategies, and long-term follow-up reflects a holistic, patient-centred approach to care.
Through its blend of technical mastery, thoughtful decision-making, and compassionate care, the Colorectal Unit strengthens the surgical department – setting the standard for precision, innovation, and comprehensive patient management.
Endocrine Unit
The Endocrine Unit represents a highly specialised pillar of surgical care, dedicated to the precise diagnosis and management of thyroid and parathyroid disorders, as well as complex soft-tissue tumours, sarcomas, and melanomas. This unit combines anatomical finesse with advanced oncologic principles, delivering targeted interventions that demand exceptional accuracy, nuanced decision-making, and multidisciplinary coordination.
With a deep understanding of endocrine physiology and tumour biology, the unit excels in managing everything from hyperparathyroidism and thyroid cancers to rare soft-tissue malignancies. Collaboration with endocrine physicians, oncologists, radiologists, nuclear medicine, and pathology ensures that each patient receives an individualized, evidence-based treatment plan – optimizing outcomes while minimizing morbidity.
Through its blend of focused expertise, oncologic precision, and patient-centred care, the Endocrine Unit strengthens the surgical service – setting the benchmark for safety, accuracy, and thoughtful, specialized management of complex endocrine and soft-tissue disease.
HPB Unit
The HPB Unit stands as a centre of advanced surgical expertise, dedicated to the comprehensive management of hepatobiliary and pancreatic disease. With a focus on ERCP, obstructive jaundice, cholelithiasis, choledocholithiasis, and complex malignancies, the unit delivers highly specialized care supported by cutting-edge technology and deep procedural skill. From minimally invasive approaches to major operations such as hepatectomies and Whipple procedures, the HPB service manages some of the most challenging conditions in modern surgery.
Backed by strong integration with gastroenterology, interventional radiology, oncology, and critical care, the HPB Unit ensures accurate diagnosis, timely biliary decompression, and individualized surgical planning. Its commitment to multidisciplinary decision-making, perioperative optimization, and advanced oncologic techniques translates into improved outcomes for patients with both benign and malignant disease.
Through its high-level technical proficiency, strategic teamwork, and commitment to complex problem-solving, the HPB Unit anchors the surgical department – setting the standard for innovation, precision, and exceptional care in the management of biliary, hepatic, and pancreatic pathology
Vascular Unit
The Vascular Unit represents a critical pillar of surgical expertise, dedicated to the diagnosis and management of arterial, venous, and lymphatic disease with precision and urgency. From life-saving interventions for acute limb ischemia and ruptured aneurysms to the meticulous management of chronic vascular conditions, the unit blends technical mastery with evidence-based decision-making to restore circulation, preserve limbs, and safeguard patient survival.
Leveraging both open and endovascular techniques, the Vascular Unit provides comprehensive care for aneurysmal disease, peripheral vascular disease, carotid pathology, venous thrombosis, varicose veins, and complex diabetic limb conditions. Close collaboration with interventional radiology, nephrology, cardiology, and critical care ensures streamlined evaluation, rapid intervention, and optimized postoperative recovery.
Through its blend of advanced procedural capability, decisive clinical judgement, and multidisciplinary coordination, the Vascular Unit strengthens the entire surgical service – setting the benchmark for precision, resilience, and comprehensive management of vascular emergencies and chronic disease alike.
Minimal Visceral Unit
The Minimal Visceral Unit serves as a centre of excellence in advanced upper gastrointestinal and minimally invasive surgery, delivering precise, modern care for a wide spectrum of complex foregut conditions. With expertise spanning the management of achalasia, reflux disease, gastric and oesophageal malignancies, as well as abdominal wall hernias and bariatric surgery, the unit combines technical finesse with evidence-based, patient-centred decision-making.
Utilizing state-of-the-art laparoscopic and open approaches, the Minimal Visceral Unit focuses on restoring function, relieving symptoms, and improving long-term quality of life. Its role in bariatric surgery further reflects a commitment to metabolic health and holistic patient outcomes, supported by multidisciplinary collaboration with dietetics, endocrinology, oncology, radiology, and anaesthesia.
Through its integration of minimally invasive innovation, oncologic precision, and high-level foregut expertise, the Minimal Visceral Unit elevates the surgical department – setting the standard for efficiency, safety, and transformative patient care across the spectrum of upper gastrointestinal and metabolic surgery.
Breast Unit
The Breast Unit stands as a cornerstone of compassionate, specialised surgical care, dedicated to the comprehensive management of benign and malignant breast disease. With expertise spanning breast cancer diagnostics, oncologic surgery, reconstruction, oncoplastic techniques, and the management of benign breast conditions, the unit combines precision, sensitivity, and clinical excellence at every step of a patient’s journey.
Through close collaboration with radiology, oncology, pathology, genetics, and reconstructive services, the Breast Unit ensures accurate diagnosis, individualized treatment planning, and seamless multidisciplinary care. Its emphasis on breast-conserving strategies, sentinel lymph node techniques, targeted axillary surgery, and cosmetically mindful approaches reflects a deep commitment to both cure and quality of life.
By integrating advanced surgical techniques, evidence-based practice, and a patient-centred philosophy, the Breast Unit strengthens the surgical department – setting the benchmark for excellence, empathy, and holistic management in breast health and disease.
Head and Neck Unit
The Head and Neck Unit represents a specialised centre of precision surgery, dedicated to the complex management of thyroid and parathyroid disease, as well as benign and malignant tumours of the head and neck. With deep anatomical expertise and meticulous surgical technique, the unit delivers targeted, high-stakes interventions in a region where millimetres define outcomes, function, and long-term quality of life.
Committed to excellence in endocrine and oncologic surgery, the unit manages a wide spectrum of conditions—from hyperparathyroidism and differentiated thyroid cancers to salivary gland pathology, neck masses, and advanced head and neck tumours. Seamless collaboration with endocrinology, ENT, oncology, radiology, nuclear medicine, and pathology ensures that each patient receives a precise diagnosis and a fully individualised treatment plan.
Through its blend of technical mastery, multidisciplinary integration, and patient-centred care, the Head and Neck Unit strengthens the surgical department – setting the standard for safety, accuracy, and comprehensive management of intricate endocrine and oncologic disease in the head and neck region.
Transplant
The Transplant Unit focuses on the highly specialised skill of organ transplantation, a complex field requiring exceptional precision and multidisciplinary expertise. While transplant opportunities may be limited, the unit remains actively involved in a broad range of surgical care, including acute care surgery, ensuring its expertise continues to support the surgical department wherever needed.
Paediatric Surgery
The Paediatric Surgery Unit stands as a vital, specialised pillar of surgical care, dedicated to the diagnosis and management of surgical conditions in infants, children, and adolescents. With a focus on congenital anomalies, neonatal emergencies, gastrointestinal disorders, paediatric trauma, and a wide range of developmental and acquired pathologies, the unit delivers care that requires exceptional precision, patience, and an understanding of the unique physiology of the growing child.
Paediatric surgery demands a balance of technical expertise and gentle, family-centred communication. The unit works closely with neonatology, paediatrics, anaesthetics, radiology, and critical care to ensure safe perioperative management, timely intervention, and age-appropriate treatment strategies. From minimally invasive procedures to complex reconstructions, every aspect of care is tailored to support long-term growth and development.
Through its commitment to specialised surgical skill, multidisciplinary collaboration, and compassionate family-focused care, the Paediatric Surgery Unit strengthens the surgical department – setting the benchmark for safety, innovation, and excellence in the surgical management of children.
Registrars and the Team
This list reflects our current and past registrars and medical officers; however, it is not exhaustive. For further details, please feel free to contact us.
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