A Hernia Guide for our Patients – and Everybody Else
On This Website – Thursday, 7 November 2024
This award-winning** web site will explain all you want to know about almost every kind of hernia and how they can be repaired today by the most modern of methods – with an idea of what to expect afterwards, be that return to work, sport, active retirement or even climbing Mount Kilimanjaro!
NOT ONLY FOR OUR PATIENTS ** Awards: “A superb patient-orientated interactive website” “Excellent patient interaction and explanation” Worldwide survey in The Annals of The Royal College of Surgeons, MMI; 83 |
Who We Are
The British Hernia Centre, the UK’s first and only Specialist Hernia Centre spanning the last thirty-five+ years and one of the world’s leading hernia 
centres, is based in Central London and is established as an International, Specialist Centre of Excellence second to none for the treatment of all kinds of hernia, from the simplest to the most complex.
Unparalleled specialist experience, unbeaten published results (on both sides of the Atlantic). The Centre has performed many tens of thousands of hernia repairs. Unique in the field of hernia surgery.
Anybody Can Get A Hernia – one-in-ten of us will get one in his or her lifetime.
Millions of hernia operations are performed each year, making hernia the world’s most common of all surgical operations. Well over 100,000 of them are performed in the UK.
Hernia affects men and women, boys and girls, and many babies are born with them.
In adults the only treatment for a hernia is surgical and there are several different approaches with different results. This site will explain.