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Your visit to a Spire hospital may be affected by local coronavirus restrictions. Once you've made an online booking, we'll only contact you if your appointment needs to be held virtually. If you don't hear from us, your appointment will be face to face.
Come to your appointment alone: To support social distancing and help protect our staff, patients and consultants, we’re restricting access in our hospitals except for exceptional circumstances so please come alone to your appointment.
Face masks: It is a mandatory requirement for patients to wear a mask within our hospitals unless medically exempt.
If you have any of the following symptoms, you will not be able to attend a face-to-face appointment. You should get a test and stay at home.
- Recent onset of a new continuous cough
- A high temperature
- A loss of, or change in, normal sense of taste or smell (anosmia)
Please do not attend the hospital if you develop, or have had recent contact with anyone with the Covid symptoms listed above.
We do not offer Covid-19 testing as part of our private GP service.
Please read the latest coronavirus (COVID-19) information.
You can book appointments for yourself or for someone else using this online booking service. If you wish to book a follow up appointment, please contact the hospital to make these arrangements.
To book online and secure an appointment you will need to pay at the time of booking. Once you’ve chosen your appointment slot it will be held for 20 minutes while you complete the details needed to confirm.
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Mr R G Wilson
Consultant General Surgeon
MbChb (Commendation), ChM, FRCSE (Gen)
Professional profile:
Having studied at Aberdeen University, I did most of my training throughout Scotland apart from a brief spell in Bristol. Laterally training in Edinburgh prior to becoming a consultant at the Western General Hospital in 1994.
During my years as a consultant I have strongly supported the move towards sub-specialty interests in surgery. As lead clinician in surgery at the Western General Hospital, I was one of the principal clinicians involved in the unique changes to surgical practice in Edinburgh, culminating in the establishment of the Lothian Colorectal Unit at the Western General Hospital. We are now the largest specialist colorectal surgery unit in the UK. The unit serves a population of over 750,000 and deals with all elective and emergency colorectal surgical admissions in Lothian.