Dr Sebastian Barton

I grew up in Canterbury having been Senior Scholar at the King’s School and then winning an Exhibition to Cambridge University. I undertook junior medical posts in Cambridge, Norwich and Southampton before embarking on Gastroenterology training in London. After completing a higher research doctorate in the molecular biology of H.pylori infection whilst a Lecturer of the University of London, I was appointed Senior Registrar to the Royal Free, Royal London and St Bartholomew’s Hospitals. I was appointed Consultant Gastroenterologist to the Kent and Canterbury Hospital in 1999. I have been the lead Gastroenterologist for East Kent Hospitals since 2019. I am the Lead Endoscopist at the Chaucer Circle Hospital

I have extensive experience of all aspects of gastroenterology and hepatology including change in bowel habit, abdominal pain, indigestion, inflammatory bowel disease, liver disease and bile duct problems, I perform diagnostic and therapeutic colonoscopy with excellent completion rates and comfort scores I am highly skilled in all aspects of gastroscopy and ERCP.