Dr Laurence Maiden
Gastroenterology
GMC: 4024545
Dr Laurence Maiden is a highly esteemed and experienced consultant physician and gastroenterologist who specialises in bowel cancer screening, abdominal pain and bloating, stomach pain and bloating, irritable bowel syndrome, performing colonoscopies, inflammatory bowel disease, as well as carrying out capsule endoscopies. He currently practises at the Spire Tunbridge Wells Hospital and Nuffield Health Hospital in Tunbridge Wells, the Kent-based Benenden Hospital, as well as Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust.
Dr Maiden's main areas of research interest include nutrition, liver disease, upper gastrointestinal endoscopy, interventional endoscopy (polyp removal), as well as small bowel enteroscopy. Presently, he is Chief of Medicine and Emergency Care at Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust and is, impressively, only one of two officially accredited consultant colonoscopists for the National Bowel Cancer Screening Programme in Tunbridge Wells.
His role as nutrition clinical lead at Tunbridge Wells Hospital NHS has seen Dr Maiden notably develop original and effective pathways in relation to the management of specialised feeding (both parenteral and enteral) and of patients suffering from eating disorders. He was appointed Chief of Medicine and Emergency Care at Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust in 2018, a role which sees him responsible for overseeing three different directorates, 70 consultants and 300 nurses.
A private messaging and video conference service that allows you to contact the best doctors at any time and place.
Start now
Enteroscopy means endoscopy of the small bowel. Traditional endoscopy or gastroscopy is looking at the stomach, the food pipe of the stomach and the first part of the small intestine and the camera doesn’t go in very far. However, to try and have a look in the small bowel requires a longer telescope because the small bowel is much longer and varies from person to person Highly experienced consultant physician and gastroenterologist Dr Laurence Maiden explains all there is to know about a balloon enteroscopy, including how it differs from a traditional endoscopy.
Here, Dr Laurence Maiden, an extremely well-regarded consultant physician and gastroenterologist, describes how colon polyps are detected and removed, whilst also detailing how and when they appear.
M.D.
03/04/2025
A friendly well run hospital
S.D.
18/02/2025
Dr Maiden was extremely kind and sympathetic during my 2 visits to him. He was reassuring and listened intently to what I had to say. As a result he was able to point me in a direction that has changed my life and sense of well being. Thank you.
l.b.
17/01/2025
Completely put my mind at ease. Very professional. Very compassionate
This website uses our own and third-party Cookies to compile information with the aim of improving our services, to show you advertising related to your preferences as well analysing your browsing habits. You can change your settings HERE.