Mr Christopher Vickery

Qualifications

MB ChB, FRCS, FRCS (Gen Surg)

GMC number: 3196861

Practising since: 1988

Specialties

General Surgery

Consultation times

  • Tuesday 09:00 - 12:30
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About

Mr Vickery is a Consultant General Surgeon with special interest in:

  • Laparoscopic and open surgery for inflammatory bowel disease
  • Ileoanal pouch surgery (treatment of fistula)
  • Colorectal cancer
  • Investigation and Surgery for Pelvic floor conditions including Obstructed Defecation Syndrome
  • Rectal prolapse
  • Gilmores Groin procedure
  • Chronic Groin Pain and Coloproctology
  • Laparascopic surgery including Rexopexy, Incisional Hernia, Colostomy,  Cholecystectomy
  • Surgical treatment for Haemorrhoids
  • Screening for Bowel Cancer
  • Incontinance of Bowels
  • Hernia repair
  • Colonoscopy

Treatments and tests offered by Mr Christopher Vickery at Nuffield Health

  • Polypectomy
  • Gastroscopy (or gastrointestinal (GI) endoscopy)
  • Ileal pouch anal anastomosis
  • Therapeutic Endoscopy
  • Abdominoperineal resection
  • Hernia repair
  • Reflux surgery (fundoplication)
  • Rectopexy
  • Excision of skin lesion
  • Cholecystectomy (Gallbladder removal)
  • Stapled transanal rectal resection (STARR) procedure
  • Colorectal screening
  • Colonoscopy
  • Colorectal surgery
  • Flexible sigmoidoscopy
  • Haemorrhoidectomy
  • Gastrointestinal tract
  • Upper gastrointestinal endoscopy
  • Anterior resection

Locations Mr Christopher Vickery works with

Related experience

Memberships

  • Medical Protection Society
  • Royal College of Surgeons of England
  • Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland (council member)
  • Southern Pelvic Floor Group (founder member)
  • Royal Society of Medicine Coloproctology

Other posts held

  • Consultant - Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust
  • National Precepter for STARR procedure and PPH (stapled Haemorrhoidectomy)
  • Founder and Trustee of Somerset Colorectal Cancer Patient Support Group
  • Screening Colonoscopist for National Bowel Cancer Screening Project

Insurers Mr Christopher Vickery works with

Mr Christopher Vickery works with the following private medical insurance providers:

  • Bupa
  • Benenden Health
  • AXA Health
  • Aviva Health
  • Vitality Health (Pru Health)
  • Health-on-Line
  • Cigna
  • WPA
  • The Exeter Friendly
  • CS Healthcare
  • Simplyhealth
  • Police Mutual