Mr. Bill Campbell

Profile

Bill Campbell has been an NHS consultant colorectal and general surgeon since 2014 with his private rooms being located in Kingsbridge Private hospital Northwest in Ballykelly.

Bill's training was in Northern Ireland with focused training in Dublin and in other international units. He studied to the level of PhD in the peptide biochemistry of neuroendocrine tumours in Belfast’s Royal Victoria Hospital Wellcome laboratories.

Bill's main specialist area of treatment is cancer of the colon and rectum but he also treats a wide variety of non cancerous (benign) bowel and general surgical conditions such as hernia and gallbladder problems. He has an interest in surgical outcomes and is the clinical lead for Prehabilitation and ERAS programmes. As part of his work he leads the audit and governance units which ensures the highest quality of service is delivered to patients. As part of his role he is also an accredited colonoscopist in the bowel cancer screening programme, a programme that aims to detect early colorectal cancer in the population of people who have no symptoms.

Current NHS Posts

Consultant Colorectal and General Surgeon – Causeway Hospital, 4 Newbridge Road, Coleraine, BT52 1HS

Personal profile

Bill's hobbies fall in behind three very busy children but also include guitar, reading and outdoors walking

Qualifications

BSc (Hons) – Physiology and Biomedical Science (QUB) 1996

MB BCh BAO – (QUB) 2004

PhD – (QUB) 1999

Additional Training

Fellow in Surgery – Tallaght University Hospital, Dublin (2014)

NI Bowel Cancer Screening Programme – Accredited Screening Colonoscopist

Member of the Court of Examiners – Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland

Professional bodies (Positions held in last 3 years)

MRCS

FRCSI – Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (2013)

Member – The Association of Coloproctologists (GB&I)

Publications

Published widely in the area of general surgery both in national and international journals with a history of international presentation in the field of peptide biochemistry.

Treatment Areas

Treatments and areas of interest

Upper and lower gastrointestinal endoscopy for nausea, swallowing problems, bleeding, weight loss, change in bowel habit, elevated qFIT - (OGD and colonoscopy)
Pilonidal disease
Diverticular disease
Abdominal wall and groin hernia
‘Lumps and bumps’
Proctology - haemorrhoids - banding, Minimally invasive (THD) haemorrhoid surgery, formal haemorrhoidectomy
Proctology - treatment for abscess or fistula in ano
Proctology - anal fissure (surgical and non-surgical treatment including Botox)