Oesophageal varices - Doctors specialists of Bupa

The Harborne Hospital - part of HCA Healthcare UK, is a leading healthcare centre in Birmingham that offers comprehensive care across many specialities. These include imaging and diagnostics, cardiac and thoracic care and cancer care, alongside digestive diseases, gynaecology and urology. The centre also offers specialist services in orthopaedic care, spinal care and ear, nose and throat. The hospital is home to expert consultants and healthcare professionals who practise in modern facilities, and are there to provide patients with the best treatment pathways tailored to their condition. The team's experts are from a range of specialist fields, and are experienced in using the latest technology. They're dedicated to making a positive difference to the lives of patients and their loved ones. The Harborne Hospital has modern amenities that maximise patient safety and comfort. It's been designed to provide the best possible experience and every inpatient room is bright, airy and ensuite, designed to maximise natural daylight. Facilities include 50 private ensuite inpatient beds, 16 private day-care beds and an on-site pharmacy, alongside modern outpatient services including consultation rooms, a fully equipped day-care unit and four state-of-the-art operating theatres. The hospital also has a dedicated intensive treatment unit (level 3 ITU), an imaging suite and outpatient chemotherapy and radiotherapy services.

The Princess Margaret Hospital, part of the Circle Health Group, is a leading private hospital in Windsor that offers its patients a high quality, private orthopaedic surgery, general surgery, cataract surgery, as well as a diagnostic imaging department. The facilities that the hospital boasts include 18 consulting rooms, four operating theatres, a JAG-accredited endoscopy suite, an elective paediatric service, as well as an oncology suite staffed by specialist nurses delivering a wide range of chemotherapy treatments and regimes to patients under the care of consultant oncologists. Patients can also benefit from a physiotherapy department staffed by chartered, state-registered physiotherapists. The Princess Margaret Hospital is also a renowned centre of excellence in the field of pulmonology.

Mount Alvernia Hospital, part of Circle Health Group, has been treating patients in the Guildford area for almost 90 years, providing outpatient, day-case and inpatient services across a range of specialities including orthopaedics, general surgery, urology, women’s health, gastroenterology, gynaecology and dermatology. The hospital has 60 beds over five wards, three theatres, 15 consulting rooms and an ambulatory care unit which includes two Theatres for minor surgery. The hospital’s extensive imaging department houses CT, MRI, X-ray, digital mammography, ultrasound and bone densitometry, alongside a nuclear medicine department. It is one of the only private hospitals in the area to provide PET CT scanning. Alongside surgery, patients can also attend the hospital for private cancer care, physiotherapy and pathology (the hospital has a laboratory for blood tests and analysis). The on-site pharmacy also enables convenient collection of prescribed medication. Mount Alvernia’s private GPs are also based in the hospital; they offer 30-minute appointments and can easily refer onward to expert specialists, as well as for tests, scans and physiotherapy should patients require them.