NT Surgery offers a broad range of specialty services within general surgery which include laparascopic and minimally invasive procedures. Other specialist services include Weight Loss Surgery, Liver and Pancreas Surgery, Gastrointestinal Surgery and Endoscopy and pH Monitoring.
Trained with the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, we perform a wide range of surgery. We see patients with, but not limited to, hernias, gall stones, bowel cancer, cancer, haemorrhoids, gastro-oesophageal reflux, skin cancers, vasectomy and circumcision.
Medical, Surgical and Lifestyle Management
The surgeons at NT surgery are specialised in weight loss surgery and are members of the Australia & New Zealand Metabolic and Obesity Surgical Society (ANZMOSS). They are leading contributors to the Bariatric Surgery Registry. Weight loss procedures they perform include sleeve gastrectomy, mini-gastric bypass, roux-en-y gastric bypass, gastric balloons and gastric band maintenance. They believe in a holistic approach and are affiliated with the Darwin Obesity Surgery Centre, working with a team that includes GP's, dieticians, psychologists, exercise physiologists and a nurse educator.
Dr Sara Toonson is a specialist GP with an interest in lifestyle medicine. She holds a fellowship in Lifestyle Medicine and is SCOPE certified. Dr Sara works closely with the team to provide follow-up and nutrition monitoring for patients who have had weight loss surgery in order to optimise their long-term health. She is skilled at working with those who have regained weight post procedure.
Dr Sara is also able to assist patients with medical management for weight loss as well as therapeutic carbohydrate restriction for optimal metabolic health.
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After becoming a qualified General Surgeon, Phil spent a further 2 years training in liver, pancreas and bile duct surgery in Singapore and Adelaide. He moved to Darwin in 2016 as there was a clear need for a General Surgeon specialised in liver and pancreas surgery.
He sees patients with: liver cancers (either primary or liver metastasis); bile duct and gallbladder cancers and complex gallstone disease; as well as pancreas cancers and other pancreatic conditions.
He works within an interstate multidisciplinary team of surgeons, gastroenterologists, and radiologists.
Our surgeons specialise in benign conditions, such as gastro-oesophageal reflux disease and hiatus hernia as well as cancers of the oesophagus, stomach and duodenum.
For benign disease, we perform a range of investigations to ensure that you can achieve the best results from surgery.
The management of upper gastrointestinal cancers will always be within a multidisciplinary team of surgeons, oncologists, radiation oncologists and radiologists with recommendations and second opinions from interstate experts.
In addition to gastroscopy and colonscopy, we provide endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) for bile duct and pancreatic conditions, endoscopic stenting for intestinal obstructions and endoscopic weight loss procedures,
pH Monitoring is the gold standard for investigating reflux symptoms such as pain, cough, hoarseness and sore throat. It is a simple procedure performed in the rooms without requirement for an anaesthetic. A small probe is introduced for 24 hours while the pH or acid levels are recorded. This information allows us to correlate symptoms with the acid levels. Some patients may be suitable for reflux surgery with the aim of curing reflux disease and ceasing acid medications.
NT Surgery is the sole provider of this service in the Northern Territory and is available to public and private patients.
Darwin Private Hospital,
Suite 10, Ground Floor
Rocklands Drive, Tiwi NT 0810
Tel: 08 7981 5694
Fax: 08 7981 5698
Email: admin@ntsurgery.com
