I am a highly experienced consultant in gastroenterology and hepatology and am passionately committed to improving clinical services. My practice encompasses the full range of liver conditions and I retain a broad expertise in gastroenterology and endoscopy, performing diagnostic and therapeutic procedures including gastroscopy, sigmoidoscopy and colonscopy.

I established the hepatology (liver disease) service in Portsmouth in 2010 as a single-handed consultant and I have since led and developed the service into one of the largest in Southern England.

I am fully trained in the non-invasive assessment of the liver using the Fibroscan (transient elastography) procedure. I am keen to ensure my patients are able to access the very latest treatments and I have built a thriving clinical research programme in Portsmouth that has received national recognition for our delivery of clinical trials.

In addition to my expertise in managing liver conditions, I continue to see patients with a range of gastroenterology problems including abdominal pain, indigestion, reflux, diarrhoea and weight loss. I qualified as a doctor in 1992 and trained in hospital medicine, gastroenterology and hepatology in Liverpool, Sheffield, Cambridge and London.

I was a Lecturer at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith Hospital and was awarded a research PhD from Imperial College, London. In 2004, I moved to California and was Associate Hepatologist at the Scripps Liver Center in San Diego for two years. After returning to the UK, I was a consultant at the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff before relocating to Portsmouth in 2010.

General Medical Council Number: 3677038

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Some of the principal treatments carried out by Dr Richard Aspinall at Spire include:

Gastroenterology

Flexible sigmoidoscopy
Gastroscopy
Liver Disease

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Clinical interests

Bowel disease
Colonoscopy
Endoscopy
Gastrointestinal
Infectious diseases
Liver disease

Qualification and professional memberships

BSc / University of Liverpool / 1989
Physiology (1st class Hons)

MBChB (with Hons) / University of Liverpool / 1992
Medicine and Surgery

PhD / Imperial College, London / 2004
Microbiology and Immunology

Professional memberships

Royal College of Physicians of London

British Association for the Study of the Liver

British Viral Hepatitis Group

British Society of Gastroenterology

European Association for the Study of Liver Disease

Professional leadership

NIHR Wessex Resarch Network Lead for Hepatology
Clinical Lead for Liver Services, Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust
Secretary, Liver Section, British Society of Gastroenterology

Research and publications

Articles

Addressing liver disease in the UK: a blueprint for attaining excellence in health care and reducing premature mortality from lifestyle issues of excess consumption of alcohol, obesity, and viral hepatitis

Media Coverage

Portsmouth trial drugs in hope to cure Hepatitis C

Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust

Doctor from Portsmouth reveals study on liver screening

Portsmouth hospital QA leads the way with trials on hepatitis C

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Consultant in Gastroenterology and Hepatology