Dr Mayhead provides the following treatments and procedures at Benenden Hospital.
Struggling with frequent indigestion, heartburn or acid reflux? Our minimally invasive diagnostic test can evaluate your symptoms.
Used when your food pipe (oesophagus), stomach, or top part of the small intestine need to be looked at. This involves putting the endoscope camera down the throat.
An endoscopy can be used to help treat a digestive tract problem or diagnose polyps, which can be removed to prevent the development of colon cancer.
A procedure to look inside the lower part of the large intestine using a sigmoidoscope; a long, thin flexible tube with a light and camera at the end.
A colonoscopy can check what's causing your bowel symptoms by looking at the lining of your rectum and colon using a long, flexible tube called a colonoscope.
Our Liver Scanning Ultrasoundhas combined exciting new developments in conventional ultrasound with software that measures liver stiffness and fatty deposits.
I have been a consultant Gastroenterologist for 12 years. I've worked in Australia during my training and have undertaken specialist training in the Southeast of England.
I have been an accredited Bowel Cancer Screener (BCSP) for six years and am an examiner for the national BCS programme.
I undertake a wide range of endoscopic procedures, including gastroscopy and colonoscopy, therapeutics and polypectomy and small bowel and colon capsule endoscopy. I have also been an independent biliary endoscopist treating bile duct gallstones and obstructive liver problems (ERCP).
I've been a consultant in Sussex for the last 11 years and have recently relocated my medical practice to the Kent area.
I have a friendly and proactive approach to managing GI and liver-related conditions and am happy to spend time working through a diagnostic problem to provide an explanation and management plan for the individual patient that gives an answer and peace of mind.
My name's Phil Mayhead, I'm a Consultant Gastroenterologist. I've been a consultant since 2009 and I've worked at Benenden for nearly a year. I have enjoyed it immensely actually, since I've been here; the organisation is very well run. It's efficient and the environment is modern, clean and friendly. So, it's been a good move to set up my practice here.
I have been a practitioner in the health service in Sussex and Kent since around 2005. And I've been a Consultant Gastroenterologist about 14 to 15 years now. I specialise in endoscopy and then, in doing sort of advanced interventional endoscopy. But I can turn my hand at many areas of gastroenterology and hepatology. With gastroenterology, it's a good specialty that covers both the theoretical aspects of medicine and also the practical aspects as well. So if you have a bent to do procedures and practical things, then that is an enjoyable specialty from that perspective, but equally from the more cerebral aspect of it, the gastroenterology brushed up against a lot of other specialties and it's a very interesting area to work at.
Every day is a bit different. I like the endoscopic aspect of doing the technical things. I like talking to people. I like, you know, to problem solve. The patient has come with a problem that they want to get resolved or understand a bit better. The point of the consultation is to try and find out from the patient what it is that they are worried about. And that's something I do focus on when I talk to them in clinic. I try and sit and listen and find out what's important and then try and find a solution to their problems, either in terms of undertaking further investigations or along with referral or advice regarding a specific issue that is within my area of expertise.
So outside of work, apart from sort of wrangling my family, I have three kids. I also do a lot of exercise. I do a lot of sport and cycling, running, horse riding.
