An endoscopy is a test to look inside your body. A long, thin tube with a small camera inside, called an endoscope, is passed into your body through a natural opening such as your mouth.
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Locations
Watford General Hospital - Enter through main entrance of the Main Block and go straight ahead with the reception your left. At the lifts, go up to the third floor. On the third floor, turn left, then right.
Hemel Hempstead Hospital - Enter the Verulam Wing from the top car park. Go through the foyer, past the reception desk on your left, through the door and turn right.
Contact information
- Phone -
- Watford General Hospital - 01923 217530
- Hemel Hempstead Hospital - 01442 287681
Procedures
The range of procedures performed at Watford includes:
- Gastroscopy
- Colonoscopy and EMR (Endoscopic Mucosal Resection)
- Flexible sigmoidoscopy
- Bronchoscopy
- EBUS (Endobronchial Ultrasound)
- ERCP (Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangio-Pancreatography)
- EUS (Endoscopic Ultra Sound)
- PEG insertion and removal (Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy)
- Oesophageal stent insertion
- Oesophageal dilatation
- RFA (radio frequency Ablation)
- Breath tests
The range of procedures performed at Hemel Hempstead includes:
- Gastroscopy
- Colonoscopy and EMR (Endoscopic Mucosal Resection)
- Flexible Sigmoidocopy
- Oesophageal dilatation
- 24 hour oesophageal pH studies
- Oesophageal manometry
- Fibroscan
- Breath tests
- Trans Nasal Endoscopy
- Capsule Sponge Endoscopy
Our endoscopy department has JAG accreditation - Joint Advisory Group on GI Endoscopy by Royal College of Physicians. JAG accreditation is awarded to high-quality gastrointestinal endoscopy services.
Patient information leaflets
- After care for ERCP (Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangio-Pancreatography)
- After care for Insertion of a Suprapubic Catheter
- After care for Therapeutic Gastroscopy
- Aftercare for Colonoscopy or Flexible Sigmoidoscopy
- Aftercare for Gastroscopy
- Having a colon capsule endoscopy
- Having a Colonoscopy
- Having a Flexible Sigmoidoscopy
- Having a Flexible Sigmoidoscopy and Argon Plasma Coagulation Therapy (APC)
- Having a Flexible Sigmoidoscopy with Oral Bowel Preparation
- Having a Gastroscopy
- Having a Gastroscopy and an Endoscopic Mucosal Resection (EMR)
- Having a Gastroscopy and Banding of Varices
- Having a Gastroscopy and Colonoscopy
- Having a Gastroscopy and Dilatation
- Having a Gastroscopy and Endoscopic Ultrasound (EUS)
- Having a Gastroscopy and Radiofrequency Ablation (RFA)
- Having a Transnasal Endoscopy
- Having an ERCP
- Having an Oesophageal Manometry
- Having an OGD and an Insertion of Duodenal Stent
- Having Oesophageal Manometry
- Having Wireless pH monitoring (Bravo)
- Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)