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Mr Richard Sutton

General Surgery, Cosmetic Surgery, Breast Surgery

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I was able to get an appointment with Mr Sutton on the day I rang and tests were also carried out immediately. Mr Sutton and all staff were most kind and pleasant.

 

Professional profile

Mr Richard Sutton is a Consultant General Surgeon with a special interest in Breast Surgery, in particular cosmetic, oncoplastic and breast reconstructive surgery and practices at CircleBath hospital.

After qualifying from St Bartholomew's Hospital, London he went on to complete his Basic and Higher Surgical training in London Deanery

He completed his Breast Surgical Oncology training at the Royal Marsden and Charing Cross Hospitals (London) and the Royal Adelaide Hospital (Australia) as well as Breast Oncoplatic, Reconstruction and Aesthetic Training as a Clinical Fellow in St Andrews Department of Plastic Surgery, Broomfield Hospital, Chelmsford.

Richard is now part of a strong and integrated breast cancer multi-disciplinary team (including radiologists, expert breast pathologists and specialist breast care nurses) at the Royal United Hospital, Bath, who are able to give comprehensive help and advice to those women who are contemplating, or who have had a breast reconstructive surgery.

For breast cancer surgical management, he offers treatment through breast conservation surgery, lumpectomy and mastectomy and the unit is validated and approved for the use of sentinel lymph node biopsies. The multi-disciplinary team also have extensive experience with the use of pre-operative treatment of breast cancer including endocrine therapy and chemotherapy ('neoadjuvant').

His surgical skills were recognized at a national level in an article written in the Daily Mail in 2010: Revealed: Britain's top surgeons for breast cancer reconstruction surgery - as voted by the specialists themselves. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1292354/Britains-surgeons-breast-cancer-reconstruction-surgery--voted-specialists-themselves.html##ixzz11WjwlSka

Richard is actively involved with research into improving outcomes for breast cancer treatment, being the lead clinician at the RUH for a number of multi centre national research trials. With an increasing commitment to surgical training at a local, regional and national level he has been on the teaching faculty for a number of national courses in oncoplastic & reconstructive breast surgery, including many courses at the Royal College of Surgeons of England.

Current NHS or research position

Consultant General Surgeon at the Royal United Hospital, Bath

Year of first medical qualification

1990

Special clinical interests

  • Immediate and delayed breast reconstruction
  • Skin sparing mastectomy
  • Expnander-implant based reconstruction
  • Nipple reconstruction
  • Areola Tattoo
  • Breast Asymmetry
  • Tissue flap Reconstruction
  • Risk Reducing (prophylactic) mastectomy
  • Reduction and Augmentation Surgery

Research interests

Sentinel lymph node biopsy, Pyschological outcomes following breast reconstructive surgery

Current membership(s) of professional, national and regional bodies

  • The British Association of Surgical Oncology
  • The British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive & Aesthetic surgeons (allied associate).
  • Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England
Treatment Location Practice days
Breast Enlargement (Breast Augmentation), Breast Reduction, Breast Reconstruction, Tummy Tuck (Abdominoplasty), Liposuction, Breast Uplift (Mastopexy), Breast Lump Removal, Breast Implant Removal, Male Breast Reduction (Gynaecomastia), Inverted Nipple Correction, Mastectomy Operation, Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy and Removal, Gallbladder Removal (Cholecystectomy), Axillary Lymph Node Dissection (Breast Cancer), Hernia Surgery (Femoral), Hernia Surgery (Incisional), Hernia Surgery - Open Inguinal, Hernia Surgery - Paraumbilical & Umbilical, Appendicectomy Bath Mon