May 2, 2021
BSc, MBChB, FRACP
| Achalasia | Auto immune hepatitis |
| Barrett’s oesophagus | Inflammatory bowel disease |
| Colon cancer | Colon cancer screening |
| Colonic polyps | Crohn’s disease |
| Dyspepsia | Dysphagia |
| Eosinophilic oesophagitis | Gastroparesis |
| Gastro oesophageal reflux | Helicobacter gastritis |
| Irritable bowel syndrome | Liver disease |
| Microscopic colitis | Non cardiac chest pain |
| Oesophageal cancer | Peptic ulcer disease |
| Small bowel overgrowth | Ulcerative colitis |
| Viral hepatitis |
| Ambulatory 48 hour pH testing (Bravo) | Colonoscopy – diagnostic and therapeutic (polypectomy, stenting) |
| Gastroscopy – diagnostic and therapeutic | Liver biopsy |
| Wireless capsule endoscopy |
Graduate of Otago University, formerly Fellow at Liver Transplant Unit, Melbourne, working at Wakefield Hospital since 1992.
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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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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