Ms Sarah Burton
Professional background
Sarah Burton is a consultant colorectal and general surgeon specialising in colorectal surgery, inflammatory bowel disease, diverticular disease and complications, coloproctology and hernia repairs.
She went to medical school at Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham from 1990 - 1995 and completed her house jobs at Nottingham City Hospital. She then did her basic surgical training at Frimley Park Hospital before becoming a general surgical registrar on the Southwest Thames rotation.
Her two year research period between 2002 and 2004 was clinically based at Mayday University Hospital and Royal Marsden Hospital with Dr Gina Brown, looking at pre-operative staging of colonic cancers and poor prognostic predictors, resulting in a master’s in surgery.
During the last 18 months of her rotation, Ms Burton trained in laparoscopic colorectal resection at Royal Surrey County Hospital and then at Frimley Park Hospital.
She was appointed as a consultant colorectal and general surgeon at Frimley Park Hospital in 2007 and continues in that full-time position. The role includes surgical clinics, endoscopy lists and regular operating lists of mainly colorectal and some general surgical procedures.
Research interests
Ms Burton has been the clinical lead for endoscopy from 2014 - 2018 and led the team responsible for ensuring JAG re-accreditation after it was deferred in 2013.
Since 2015, Miss Burton has been the surgical NELA lead involved in driving up standards in emergency laparotomy care. Over the years, this has helped reduce mortality and perioperative complications and helped develop a more multidisciplinary approach to emergency care.
Most recently she has worked with her nursing, physiotherapy and geriatrician colleagues to implement pre-habilitation and help develop the POPS service (optimising surgical outcomes in the elderly).
Conditions treated include:
Colorectal cancer - diagnosis, treatment, and re-section of bowel cancer either laparoscopically or open
Endometriosis involving the bowel,
Inflammatory bowel disease including laparoscopic and open resections, stricturoplasty and management of perianal disease
Coloproctology - outpatient-based and surgical treatment of haemorrhoids, anal fissures, complex anal fistulae and anal tags
Surgical treatment (mainly perineal approach) of rectal prolapse
Surgical treatment of rectoceles for obstructed defaecation
Diagnosis and surgical management of diverticular disease and its complications
Investigation and treatment of rectal bleeding and changes in bowel habit +/- abdominal pain - diagnostic laparoscopy and adhesiolysis / appendicectomy
Repair of simple and complex incisional hernias and inguinal, femoral and umbilical hernia repairs
Laparoscopic cholecystectomy
OGD, colonoscopy and flexible sigmoidoscopy, polypectomy and colonic stenting.