April 29, 2021
MBChB, FRACP
| Auto immune hepatitis |
| Cirrhosis |
| Colonic polyps |
| Crohn’s disease |
| Dysphagia |
| Familial GI cancer / polyposis syndromes |
| Gastroesophageal reflux disease |
| Helicobacter pylori |
| Irritable bowel syndrome |
| Microscopic colitis |
| Peptic ulcer disease |
| Viral hepatitis |
| Bowel cancer screening |
| Colitis |
| Colonoscopy |
| Dyspepsia |
| Eosinophilic oesophagitis |
| Gastroparesis |
| Gastroscopy |
| Iron deficiency anaemia |
| Liver disease |
| Non cardiac chest pain |
| Ulcerative colitis |
Ben is a graduate of the University of Otago (Dunedin and Wellington) and completed his advanced training in gastroenterology in the Auckland and Waikato regions. He then undertook a fellowship in Inflammatory Bowel Disease at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK, before returning to work as a Consultant Gastroenterologist at Wellington Hospital, Wakefield Hospital, and Bowen Hospital.
Ben provides friendly, patient focused assessment and management of a broad range of gastroenterological and liver conditions and offers diagnostic and therapeutic gastroscopy and colonoscopy procedures. He has a special interest in inflammatory bowel disease and is involved in conducting clinical trials in this area.
Bruce Bennett says new technology that zeroes in on hard-to-target prostate cancer is a great advancement – he just wishes it had arrived earlier, and cheaper. After three biopsies, dating back to 2005, that missed his cancer, Bennett – a 65-year-old retired Wellington teacher – was tested earlier this year with new fusion biopsy technology, which found […]
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Bruce Bennett says new technology that zeroes in on hard-to-target prostate cancer is a great advancement – he just wishes it had arrived earlier, and cheaper. After three biopsies, dating back to 2005, that missed his cancer, Bennett – a 65-year-old retired Wellington teacher – was tested earlier this year with new fusion biopsy technology, which found […]
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Acurity Health Group and property partner Vital Healthcare Property Trust have confirmed base isolators will be employed in the $106 million re-development of Wellington’s Wakefield Hospital enabling it to remain operational after a major earthquake. Wellington City Council has granted a Resource Consent for the proposed new hospital. Enabling works are currently underway with construction expected […]
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Base isolators will be part of Wakefield Hospital’s $106 million redevelopment to ensure it can keep operating following a major earthquake. Plans were announced in November to bowl most of Wellington’s largest private hospital, in Newtown, to make way for an upgrade which will give patients access to state-of-the art facilities. Acurity Health Group and property partner Vital […]
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