Mr Atkin always tries to adopt a compassionate and personal approach, ensuring patients feel comfortable and well-informed throughout their treatment.

Lead clinician for colorectal cancer at East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust.

• Royal College of Surgeons
• Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland

• Aly M, Farquharson B, Clarke O, Atkin GK. Should surgeons repair symptomatic, clinically occult, radiologically evident, inguinal hernias? A case-control study of patient-reported outcomes. Hernia 2021; 25(5):1209-13.
• Atkin GK, Suliman A, Vaizey CJV. Patients characteristics and treatment outcome in functional anorectal pain. Dis Colon Rectum 2011; 54(7): 870-75.
• Atkin GK, Martins J, Tozer P, Ranchod P, Phillips RK. For many high anal fistulas, lay open is still a good option. Tech Coloproctol. 2011; 15(2): 143-50.
• Atkin G, Daley FM, Bourne S, Glynne-Jones R, Northover J, Wilson GD.  The effect of surgically-induced ischaemia on gene expression in a colorectal cancer xenograft model. Br J Cancer 2006; 94(1): 121-7.
• Atkin G, Taylor NJ, Daley FM, Stirling JJ, Richman P, Glynne-Jones R, d’Arcy JA, Collins DJ, Padhani AR.  Dynamic Contrast Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging (DCE-MRI) is a poor measure of rectal cancer angiogenesis. Br J Surg 2006; 93: 992-1000.