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Mr Damian McKay

Consultant General Surgeon & Colorectal

Consultation Fees

Initial Face-To-Face Consultation

£230

Follow Up Consultation

£120

Additional Fees

Administration Fee - Kingsbridge Belfast & North West

A £35.00 admin fee is charged in addition to the Consultation Fee

Accepted Insurers

Aviva
AXA
Bupa
Healix
Vitality
WPA

Our Locations

We see patients across the Kingsbridge sites, all with high standards of care.

You’ll receive the same consistent, personalised support throughout.

Ballykelly

Belfast

Services I Offer

Endoscopy

Colonoscopy

Mr Damian McKay’s Profile

Mr Damian McKay is a well established, respected, General and Colorectal Surgeon. He trained in Northern Ireland and during that time was awarded a Doctorate from The Queen’s University of Belfast for his research into Inflammatory Bowel Diseases (IBD).

After completing his surgical training he was appointed as the Colorectal Surgical Society of Australia and New Zealand (CSSANZ) and Colorectal Fellow at Royal Adelaide Hospital, South Australia where he spent a year further developing his surgical skills. On returning from Australia Mr McKay completed the European Board of Surgery board certification in Coloproctology examinations leading to the award of EBS Coloproctology and was appointed as Consultant Surgeon to the Southern Health and Social Care Trust.

Mr McKay has had a high volume of Colorectal Cancer and IBD practice based at Craigavon Area Hospital and through his private practice based at Kingsbridge Private Hospital Belfast. Mr Mc Kay has recently expanded his private practice and has joined the team at Kingsbridge Private Hospital in Sligo. He has very high levels of patient satisfaction and very low levels of complications in all areas of his practice. Mr McKay is soon to step down after completing a term as Regional Colorectal Cancer Clinical Reference Group lead at the Northern Ireland Caner Network after considerable work to improve colorectal cancer care in Northern Ireland through a number of regional initiatives.

His main areas of private practice include:

Investigation and management of Gastrointestinal disease – Diverticular disease, Colorectal cancer, Inflammatory bowel disease.
Endoscopy services – Colonoscopy, Flexible sigmoidoscopy and OGD.
Treatment of common perianal conditions – Piles, Fistula in Ano, Pilonidal disease.
Surgery for common general surgical conditions – inguinal hernia repair, incisional hernia repair, gallbladder disease.

Treatments and areas of interest

General Surgery
Gastrointestinal Investigations
Gastroscopy and Colonoscopy
Laparoscopic Colorectal Surgery
Colorectal Surgery – Piles, Fissures, Fistula-in-ano, Investigation of GI Diseases, Diverticular Disease, Colorectal Cancer
Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Haemorrhoidal Disease Management
Treatment of Piles and Peri Anal Conditions
Gallbladder Surgery
Excision of Lesions

Scopes & Hope!

Mr McKay recently joined us to discuss red flag lower GI symptoms in our HealthStyle Podcast. Check it out:

Qualifications

Undergraduate Medical Education – Queen’s University of Belfast (1995 – 2000)
Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery and Bachelor of Obstetrics with distinction (MB BCh BAO)

Distinctions

Distinction in Therapeutics and Pharmacology
Distinction in Final MB Part 1 Written Examination

Prizes

The Leopold Herbert Prize in Medicine (1^st Place in the Medical School Cinical Examination)
Finalist in the Royal Belfast Hopsital for Sick Children Prize
Finalist in The Cow and Gate Prize in Paediatrics
Finalist in The Ulster Hospital Gold Medal

Post Graduate Medical Education

Membership of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh MRCS(Ed)
The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, October 2003
Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
FRCS(Ed)Gen Surg- pass in the written and clinical Intercollegiate Surgical Board examinations
The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, June 2010

Post Graduate Doctorate Degree

Doctor of Medicine – MD by thesis and viva – Queen’s University of Belfast (July 2010)

Additional Training

Basic Surgical Skills– November 2001, The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
Advanced Trauma and Life Support (ATLS), March 2002, Dungannon, Northern Ireland.
Simulated Trauma Advanced Resusitation Teams (START), Dec 2002, Dungannon, N.Ireland.
Care of the Critically Ill Surgical Patient, Jan 2003, Belfast.
Essentials of Laparoscopic Surgery, May 2004, Dundee, Scotland.
Cochrane Group– Introduction to meta-analysis, April 2005, Oxford, England
ATLS reverification, January 2006, Dungannon, Northern Ireland- Invited to become an instructor on this course.
Joint Advisory Committee on Gastroenterology (JAG) Basic skills in Colonoscopy course, September 2006, Whiteabbey Hospital, Northern Ireland.
GI laparoscopic surgical skills course (Supported by Tyco Healthcare), October 2006, Paris, France.
ATLS Instructors Course, Royal College of Surgeons, March 2007, London, England.
Advanced Trauma and Surgical Care course, March 2007, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Laparoscopic Incisional Hernia Repair course (Supported by Ethicon UK), April 2008, Hamburg, Germany.
Advanced Laparoscopic Colorectal Masterclass (Supported by Ethicon UK), Guildford, England.
Laparoscopic Colorectal Surgery course (Supported by Ethicon UK), Hamburg, Germany.

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