Mr Matthew Tutton BSc MS FRCS
Laparoscopic and General Surgeon

Mr Matthew Tutton

Matthew Tutton is a consultant general surgeon with a specialist interests in laparoscopic surgery, TEMS and endoscopy. He is the clinical lead for gastrointestinal surgery at Colchester Hospital University Foundation Trust, a national training unit for advanced laparoscopic surgery.

Surgical Background

He graduated from the United Medical and Dental Schools of Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals, London in 1995. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and has a Master of Surgery Degree from research in colorectal cancer at the Institute of Cancer Research. He has undertaken fellowships at the Mayo clinic in Rochester, the University of Minnesota, the Weill Cornell Hospital in New York, USA as well as to the National Cancer Institute, Tokyo, Japan. He underwent training in TEMS at the Wolf Education Centre in Knittlingen, Germany. He was appointed as a consultant surgeon at Colchester Hospital University Foundation Trust in 2006.

Current practice

He is a specialist in laparoscopic general and colorectal surgery and a trainer on the national laparoscopic training program (LAPCO). He leads the regional TEMS (transanal endoscopic microsurgery service) for the Essex Cancer Network for the treatment of large rectal polyps and early cancers. He performs SILS (single incision laparoscopic surgery). He is also interested in enhanced recovery programs and has lectured on this nationally for the Department of Health and published a book chapter on enhanced recovery in colorectal cancer.

Research and teaching

He has presented many national and international papers related to his research and  published papers, book chapters and presented internationally on topics including laparoscopic hernia repair, training in laparoscopic gallstone surgery, laparoscopic bowel surgery, and enhanced recovery. He is the principle investigator for the TEMS TREC trial at Colchester Hospital and has presented his work on TEMS both at the Japan Society of Coloproctology meeting, Hamamatsu, Japan, and at the Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons meeting in San Diego, USA. He is a member of the ICENI training unit at Colchester. He holds honorary senior lecturer contracts with St Mary's University of London and also the Anglian Ruskin University, with which he is a tutor for a MSc Degree course for minimally invasive and robotic surgery.

Please visit Mr Matthew Tutton's perosnal website www.essexgeneralsurgeon.co.uk