Consultant Paediatric Surgeon Niall Jones explains how minimal access surgery, such as the laparoscopic procedures he describes is now accepted as the best and safest way to operate on babies and children.

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Niall Jones who is a Paediatric Gastrointestinal Specialist at The Royal London Hospital and the Portland Hospital for Women and Children explains his own philosophy for performing important operations on children

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Doctors at the Royal London are using specially-designed tools such as forceps and clamps which are only three millimetres wide reports London’s Evening Standard. Niall Jones, paediatric consultant at the Royal London comments

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Surgery to set back prominent ears (pinnaplasty) is the most common paediatric plastic surgical procedure in the UK. Consultant Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeon  David Gault asks whether this surgery is necessary or even safe? He says: Setting  the ears remains plastic surgery’s appendicectomy, but is it really safe, and why are we not avoiding [...]

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