Dr Edward A Stoner

Dr Edward A Stoner

Consultant Gastroenterologist

Dr Edward Stoner is a Consultant Gastroenterologist practising at Springfield Hospital in Chelmsford, Essex. He specialises in reflux, ulcers, irritable bowel syndrome, colitis, Crohn’s disease, gallstones, rectal bleeding and gastrointestinal cancers.

 

Dr Edward Stoner, MB ChB. MD FRCP, graduated from Manchester University Medical School in 1990 and undertook specialist gastroenterology training at the Royal London Hospital and district general hospitals on its rotation. He was awarded a MD for his thesis on Sphincter of Oddi manometry by the University of London in 2000 and in the same year was appointed Consultant Gastroenterologist at Princess Alexandra Hospital. He was invited to become Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 2004.

 

Edward has a large practice covering Essex and Hertfordshire in various private hospitals including Springfield Hospital in Chelmsford. He has considerable experience and expertise in endoscopic techniques. The number of procedures he performs is well above the national average, as is the audited success rates, ensuring high quality work.

 

Edward is highly skilled in upper GI endoscopy and colonoscopy, including the therapeutic techniques of polypectomy, endoscopic mucosal resection (EMR) and stent placement. He is currently teaching and supervising other Consultant Gastroenterologists and junior trainee gastroenterologists in these techniques. Edward receives referrals from other gastroenterologists and GI surgeons to manage endoscopically challenging cases.

 

Dr Stoner is an accomplished gastroenterologist, practising at Springfield Hospital in Chelmsford, Essex, with a particular interest in:

 

• Gastroscopy
• Colonoscopy
• ERCP (endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography)
• Capsule endoscopy

Edward commonly manages patients who have gasto-oesphageal reflux, gastic and duodenal ulcers, irritable bowel syndrome, ulcerative colitis, Crohn’s disease, gallstones, rectal bleeding and upper (oesphageal and gastric) and lower (small bowel, colonic, and anorectal) gastrointestinal cancers.

 

He is a skilled endoscopist, performing a large number of diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopies per year, significantly more than the average consultant gastoenterologist, and with excellent success rates.

Endoscopic procedures and capsule endoscopy.

• British Society of Gastroenterology
• Royal College of Physicians (Lon)
• Royal Society of Medicine

Gastroscopy +/- therapeutic techniques (including stents) - 1000 per year
Colonoscopy +/- polypectomy, stents - 300 per year
Sigmoidoscopy - 250 per year
Capsule endoscopy - 120 per year
ERCP - 60 per year

Colonoscopy completion rates approximately 95% (above standard 90%)