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Current NHS consultant posts held

Wigan & Leigh NHS Foundation Trust

Research interests

Upper GI disease management.

Personal interests

Photography; cooking; astronomy; cycling.

Awards received

Seven consultant clinical excellence awards (gastroenterology).

Publications

Banait, G. S. (with the SATURN group). Dyspepsia management guidelines for Salford and Trafford. July 1997.
Banait, G. S., Talbot, J. S., Thompson, D. G. Identification of patients eligible for H. pylori eradication therapy in primary care - A health economic study. Gut 1997; 41 (suppl 3): A88-A89.
Banait, G. S., Thompson, D. G. Outcomes of dyspepsia management guideline introduction - an RCT of academic detailing by hospital specialists. Gut 1999; 44 (suppl 1): A94.
Banait, G. S., Thompson, D. G. Outcomes of Dyspepsia management guideline introduction – An RCT of academic detailing by gastroenterologists. Gastroenterology 1999; 116 (No. 4 part 2): A46.
Banait, G. S., Diagnosis and management of hepatitis C. Update March 2002; p301-313.
Banait, G. S., Sibbald, B., Thompson, D. G., Summerton, C., Hann, M., Talbot, S. Modifying dyspepsia management: a cluster randomised controlled trial of educational outreach compared with passive guideline dissemination. BJGP 2003; 53 No. 487: p94-100.
Ormerod L. P., Ramesh J., Banait G. S., et al. Gastrointestinal TB: Blackburn 1985–2002. Clinical features and management. Thorax 2003; 58 (suppl III):iii57 (abstract P59).
Levison, S. E., King, M., Banait, G. S. The impact of a dedicated endoscopy referral form, incorporating the Rockall Score, on the management of patients with acute upper gastrointestinal haemorrhage. Gut 2004; 53 (suppl III): A33.
Levison, S. E., Banait, G. S. The sustained benefit of a dedicated endoscopy referral form for UGI haemorrhage. Gut 2005; 54; (suppl II): A114.
Ramesh J., Banait G.S., Ormerod L.P. Abdominal TB in a district general hospital: a retrospective review of 86 cases. Quarterly Journal of Medicine 2008 Mar;101(3):189-95.
Rashid T., Bharucha S., Jamallulail S., Banait G. et al. Inflammatory Bowel Disease in the South Asian Population of Northwest England (letter). American Journal of Gastroenterology January 2008; 1: p242-244
Bhalme MD, Levison SE, Banait GS. Paraneoplastic oesophageal dysmotility-renal cell carcinoma presenting as dysphagia: a case report. Cases J 2009.:8170.
Nixon E., Banait G. S., Robson K. J., Lok C. Y. Juvenile Haemochromatosis in Asian Families. Gut 2009; 58 (Suppl II) A352
Lok C. Y., Merryweather-Clarke A., Banait G. S. et al. Iron Overload in the Asian Community. Blood 2009 114; 20-25
R R Marri, S J Bromage, A Darmalingum, C Calvert, G Banait. Jaundice following intravesical botulinum toxin – a previously unreported complication. BMJ Case Rep. 2010.