Dr Christopher Meaden

Dr Chris Meaden is the Clinical Director of the Lancashire Bowel Cancer Screening Program and a full time NHS Consultant Gastroenterologist.
His qualifications are BA BM BCh MA MD FRCP. He trained in medicine at Oxford and Cambridge Universities and completed specialist training in Gastroenterology and General Medicine in Manchester.

He has worked as a Consultant Gastroenterologist since 2005. His private practice is at The Lancaster and Beardwood Hospitals.

He is a specialist in Gastroenterology and Liver Disease and sees a patients with a wide range of symptoms and conditions. He provides specialised liver, pancreas and bile duct endoscopy (ERCP) for the Lancashire and South Lakes/Cumbria region. He is an accredited Bowel Cancer Screening Endoscopist, which requires a higher level of consultant expertise than general endoscopy. He is also a Faculty Member at the Mersey School of Endoscopy, which provides endoscopy training both locally and nationally.

Diseases, Medical Tests and Treatments

He also perform flexible sigmoidoscopy and polyp removal (polypectomy).

If a patient needs a CT, MRI, ultrasound, FibroScan, EUS, capsule endoscopy, or cholangioscopy, Ihe is able to refer directly for these procedures.

General Gastroenterology

Bowel Cancer Screening (colonoscopy, CT scanning)

Indigestion

Abdominal pain

Change in bowel habit

Weight loss

ERCP

Teaching Endoscopy