Dr Laurence Maiden is Chief of Medicine and Emergency Care and a senior consultant in the Department of Gastroenterology at Maidstone & Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust. He is one of two accredited consultant colonoscopists for the National Bowel Cancer Screening Program in Tunbridge Wells. He specialises in endoscopy, colonoscopy, capsule endoscopy, enteroscopy of the small bowel and interventional endoscopy (polyp removal).

Dr Maiden has been a consultant at the Tunbridge Wells Hospital since December 2008, developing pathways for the management of patients requiring specialised feeding as lead for Nutrition. He also oversaw the management of all patients with intestinal failure requiring intravenous, total parenteral nutrition (TPN) or ‘artificial feeding'.

He then took on the lead for endoscopy, overseeing the Joint Advisory Group accreditation of the endoscopy units at both Tunbridge Wells and Maidstone hospitals. This led to his tenure as Lead Physician at Tunbridge Wells Hospital in 2011 before being appointed to Clinical Director for Specialist Medicine and Elderly Care.

He has been Chief of Medicine and Emergency Care since 2018 and oversee 3 directorates, more than 60 consultants, 150 junior doctors and 300 nurses in the Division.

Diseases, Medical Tests and Treatments

• Colonoscopy
• Endoscopy
• Enteroscopy
• Capsule endoscopy
• Gastroscopy
• Sigmoidoscopy
• Coeliac Disease
• Inflammatory Bowel Disease
• Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)
• Liver Disease

Qualifications

BSc London 1990

MB BS London 1993

MD London 2008

FRCP Royal College of Physicians of London 2010