Consultant Profile

Mr Ike Okorocha BSc (Hons), MB,ChB, FWACS, FMCOG, FRCOG, PG (Cert) Advanced Gynaecological Endoscopy

Practising at: Canterbury and Margate

Specialties: Gynaecology, Laparoscopic hysterectomy, Endometriosis, Menopause Management

Special clinical interests: Minimal access surgery (laparoscopic and hysteroscopic surgery)
Abnormal uterine bleeding
Heavy periods
Chronic pelvic pain
Endometriosis
Fibroids
Adenomyosis
Ovarian cysts
Colposcopy
Vulva disease
Management of the menopause
General gynaecology and women’s health

Current NHS and /or university posts: Consultant Gynaecologist and Obstetrician

Year of first medical qualification and medical school attended: 1982

Current membership(s) of professional, national and regional bodies:
Royal College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists (RCOG)
British Society of Colposcopy and Pathology (BSCCP)
British Society for Study of Vulval Diseases (BSSVD)
British Society of Gynaecological Endoscopy (BSGE)
British Menopause Society (BMS)
British Medical Association (BMA)
European Society of Gynaecological Endoscopists (ESGE)
American Association of Gynecologic Laparoscopists (AAGL)

Background Information

Mr Okorocha works as a Consultant Gynaecologist with the East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust and is based at the Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Hospital, Margate (QEQM) but also has clinical sessions at the Kent and Canterbury Hospital, Canterbury (KCH). 

Mr Okorocha has a broad experience and expertise in all aspects of general gynaecology and performs most of his gynaecological surgeries by minimal access techniques including various laparoscopic and hysteroscopic procedures. 

Mr Okorocha offers face to face and telephone consultations for the following treatments:

Abdominal hysterectomy
Cervical screening
Colposcopy and Vulvoscopy
Diagnostic laparoscopy for pelvic pain (and dye test)
Endometrial ablation (for heavy periods)
Heavy periods
Hysteroscopy
Hysteroscopic resection of fibroids and polyps
Laparoscopy (keyhole surgery) for gynaecological conditions
Laparoscopic hysterectomy
Laparoscopic assisted vaginal hysterectomy
Laparoscopic ovarian cystectomy
Laparoscopic oophorectomy (removal of ovary)
Laparoscopic sterilisation
Laparoscopic treatment of endometriosis
Menopause management
Myomectomy (fibroid treatment)
Oophorectomy
Sexual medicine
Smear test
Total laparoscopic hysterectomy (keyhole womb removal)
Vaginal hysterectomy (vaginal womb removal)
Vulval diseases