Dr Stuart Cairns

Dr. Stuart Cairns is a Consultant Physician and specialist in Gastroenterology.  He trained at King's College Hospital, London, and later did higher medical training in Cambridge, The Middlesex and University College Hospitals in London. In 1988 he was appointed Coonsultant in Gastroenterology and General (Internal) Medicine to the Brighton & Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust. 

He is Director of the Brighton Endoscopy Training Centre and Honorary Lecturer to the Brighton & Sussex Medical School. He is also Clinical Director of the Sussex Bowel Cancer Screening Programme.    

Endoscopy, pancreatic and biliary disease, colon cancer and bowel cancer screening.

Bowel cancer screening. Endoscopy. Accredited bowel cancer screening colonoscopist.

Dr. Cairns is married with three children (now grown up) and lives just outside of Brighton. He enjoys tennis, travel, music and walking along the South Downs.   

Consultant Gastroenterologist, Brighton & Sussex University Hospitals
Clinical Director of the Sussex Bowel Cancer Screening Programme. 

Abdominal Pain
Abdominal Swelling
Abnormal Liver Function Tests
Alpha-Antitrypsin Defiency
Altered Bowel Habits
Anal Fissure
Anal Fistula
Anorexia
Anus and Rectum
Autoimmune Hepatitis
Barrett’s Oesophagus
Biliary and Renal Drainage
Bowel Cancer
Bowel Disease
Bowel Obstruction
Capsule Endoscopy
Cholecystitis
Coeliac Disease
Colitis
Colonoscopy
Colorectal Screening
Complex Endoscopy
Constipation
Crohns Disease
Diagnostic Endoscopy
Diarrhoea
Difficulty Swallowing and Swallowing Disorders
Diverticulitis
Duodenal Ulceration
Dyspepsia
Dysphagia
ERCP
Endoscopy
Epigastric pain
Faecal Incontinence
Flexible Sigmoidoscopy
Gall Stones
Gastric Ulceration
Gastroscopy
Glucose Breath Test
Haematemesis
Haemorrhoids
Heart Burn
Helicobacter
Hepatitis B
Hepatitis C
Hepatobiliary Disease
Hepatology
Hepatomegaly
Hiatus Hernia
Indigestion
Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Irritable Bowel Disorder (IBD)
Jaundice
Lactose Breath Test
Liver Biopsy
Liver Disease
Malabsorption
Malaena
Medico-legal
Non Cardiac Chest Pain
Nutrition
Oesophageal Stricture
Oesophageal Varicies
Oesophagitis
Pancreatic Disease
Pancreaticobiliary Disease
Pancreatitis
Parental and Enteral Nutrition
Primary Biliary Cirrhosis
Rectal Bleeding
Stomach Cancer
Stomach Ulcer
Therapeutic Endoscopy
Ulcerative Colitis
Upper Gastointestinal Cancer
Upper Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
Urea Breath Test 13C
Vomiting