Consultants


Gautam Banerjee
Urology
Ipswich Hospital
I have special interest in:
- kidney cancer
- laparoscopy
- kidney stones
- minimally invasive surgery and LASER surgery for prostate (HOLEP)
I am Clinical lead and educational supervisor in Urology.


Sam Datta
Urology
Colchester Hospital
I have worked for the Trust since 2015, covering illnesses including blood in urine, going to urinate often, high PSA, stones, large prostates and prostate cancer. I have worked at the Royal Free London, Guys Hospital, Royal Marsden and the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery.
I trained at the North London Urology Higher Surgical Training School, Royal Postgraduate Medical School and at University College London Medical School.
Specialist areas: Laser surgery for stones and prostate, kidney stones, bladder conditions, prostate cancer diagnostics, Urolift, Botox, diagnostics


Aniket Deshpande
Urology
Colchester Hospital
I have worked for the Trust since 2019. I have a special interest in managing urological cancers. I am trained in laparoscopic and robotic surgery.
I provide general Urology services for male lower urinary tract symptoms and perform surgical treatment such as TURP and HoLEP (laser surgery for prostate). I also perform daycase endoscopic and inguinoscrotal procedures.
I am the Clinical Lead for Governance at the Colchester site. I am Clinical Lead for day-case TURBT service at Colchester.
Azad Hawizy
Urology
Ipswich Hospital
I have worked at the trust since 2013. I support patients with all urological conditions.
I specialise in kidney tumours and stone disease.
I trained at the London Deanery.
Sona Kapoor
Urology
Ipswich Hospital
I joined Ipswich NHS Trust in 2016 after completing my higher speciality training in London.
I am an Endoluminal Endourolgist. I am a diagnostician – I assess patients to diagnose urological conditions including cancers.
My special interest is renal tract stone disease and its management.


Stephen Keoghane
Urology
Colchester Hospital
I trained in urology in Oxford. I have been an NHS consultant since 2003. I spent 13 years in Portsmouth and 4 years in Bury St Edmunds before joining Colchester Hospital. My specialist interest is the management of kidney stones. I have published over 50 peer reviewed papers as well as numerous book chapters and magazine articles in urology.
I served for 22 years in the Army Reserve as a regimental medical officer, which included a deployment to Afghanistan as a trauma surgeon in 2011. I am also a published military author and historian.


Zafar Maan
Urology
Colchester Hospital
I qualified as a doctor at St George’s Hospital Medical School in 1998 and became a member of The Royal College of Surgeons of England in 2001.
I completed urological higher surgical training in Cambridge / Essex, and a Fellowship in Stone Surgery and Endourology at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London.
I was appointed as a Consultant Urological Surgeon in 2010. As a stone surgery specialist, I am particularly interested in minimally invasive procedures using a ‘keyhole’ approach.


Gerald Rix
Urology
Colchester Hospital
I trained at Oxford and Cambridge Universities before graduating from the Edinburgh urology rotation in 2004. I deal with all conditions affecting the kidneys, bladder, prostate and genitalia in men, women and children.
I founded the Colchester stone unit in 2004, introducing laser stone surgery and percutaneous nephrolithotomy (keyhole surgery) for larger, complex cases. I developed particular expertise in surgery for enlarged prostates, including HoLEP (Holmium Laser Enucleation of the Prostate), proven to be more effective than traditional prostate operations.
I regularly teach the procedure to other surgeons throughout the UK and abroad. I am also one of the Colchester cancer surgeons, treating prostate cancer, bladder cancer, testicular cancer and kidney cancer. I specialise in complex renal surgery, including laparoscopic (keyhole) nephrectomy and laparoscopic pyeloplasty.
I see female patients with general urological problems as well as children with paediatric urological conditions requiring both medical and surgical management.


George Yardy
Urology
Ipswich Hospital
Mr Yardy undertook research into prostate cancer at the Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Oxford, and trained in urology in Cambridge and Norwich. He was appointed as a Consultant Urological Surgeon in 2012. He has an established practice performing a wide range of urological procedures. He has continued involvement in clinical research. Suitable patients are offered enrolment onto national and international trials of new treatments for prostate, bladder and kidney cancer. He teaches medical students (Senior Lecturer at the University of East Anglia), junior doctors and is frequently invited to give lectures on aspects of urology.
His specialist interests are in testing for prostate cancer including Stockholm3 and fusion transperineal prostate biopsy, surgery for enlarged prostate including Aquablation, vasectomy and microsurgical vasectomy reversal, treatment of tight foreskin and scrotal swelling / pain, urinary infection, bladder overactivity and bladder Botox injections.

