Professional profile

Mr Christopher Wright is a consultant colorectal and general surgeon working across Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust's hospitals. He was appointed permanently to the Trust in November 2014 having worked as a locum consultant there since March of that year.

As a colorectal surgeon, Mr Wright deals with a range of problems affecting the bowel.

Colorectal problems can largely be divided into functional (such as irritable bowel syndrome - by far the most common group of problems he sees in clinics - or problems with leakage of stool), inflammatory (such as bowel infections, colitis or diverticulitis), anatomical (for example prolapse of the bowel, haemorrhoids or anal skin tags) or related to a growth (including benign polyps and bowel cancer).

As a general surgeon Mr Wright provides a range of treatments for problems affecting many different anatomical areas and organ systems, often related to the abdomen but not exclusively. 

The most common general surgical conditions he sees are hernias of all types, skin lumps and bumps and pilonidal disease.

Mr Wright graduated from the University of Birmingham Medical School in 2002 and completed his higher surgical training in the London Deanery in 2013. At the end of his training he was awarded one of just six prestigious Ethicon Laparoscopic Colorectal Fellowships nationally, giving him broad experience in advanced laparoscopic techniques.

I undertook this six month fellowship at the internationally-renowned laparoscopic training unit at Colchester University Hospital.

Between 2016 and 2020 Mr Wright was Clinical Lead for the Colorectal Department at Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust and led the departmental response to the COVID pandemic which severely limited availability of diagnostics. He led the introduction of qFIT (a faecal blood testing technique with high accuracy for ruling out bowel cancer) for symptomatic assessment of colorectal referrals across the whole of Kent and Medway.

He has a longstanding interest in medical education and is educational supervisor to trainees of different levels including senior colorectal trainees who are close to completing their training.

Since 2020 he has been a senior lecturer at the Kent and Medway Medical School which opened in 2020, and he now leads the surgery and perioperative care module for Year 3 students.

 

Clinical interests

  • Bowel cancer
  • Colonoscopy
  • Colorectal surgery
  • Endoscopy
  • Gastrointestinal surgery
  • General surgery
  • Inflammatory bowel disease
  • Laparoscopic surgery
  • Minimal access surgery.


Special clinical interests: diverticular disease, emergency general surgery, haemorrhoids, Rafaelo procedure.

Treatment information

Some of the principal treatments carried out by Mr Christopher Wright include:

 

General surgery

  • Hernia surgery

 

Colorectal surgery

  • Anal fissure surgery
  • Anal fistula surgery
  • Anal warts surgery
  • Bowel surgery, colostomy and ileostomy
  • Colonoscopy
  • Flexible sigmoidoscopy
  • Haemorrhoids removal treatment

 

Other treatments

  • Appendicectomy
  • Bilateral (inguinal) hernia repair
  • Pilonidal sinus surgery
  • Polypectomy
  • Rafaelo procedure for haemorrhoids
  • Rectal prolapse repair
  • Stapled haemorrhoidopexy
  • Stoma surgery
  • Umbilical hernia repair

Qualifications and professional memberships

Professional memberships

  • Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England
  • Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland.

 

Professional leadership

Specialty Tutor for the whole General Surgery department with responsibility for ensuring high standards of training for junior doctors at Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust.

 

Current NHS posts

Consultant Laparoscopic Colorectal and General Surgeon, and Clinical Lead for Colorectal Surgery, Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells Hospitals NHS Trust.