About Dr Lim
Dr Yean Lim is a consultant gastroenterologist and accredited bowel cancer screening colonoscopist at The Duchy Hospital, Harrogate.
He diagnoses and treats conditions of the oesophagus, stomach and bowel, with specialist expertise in colonoscopy, bowel cancer screening and the endoscopic removal of bowel polyps. Insured and self-funding patients are welcome.
Bowel cancer screening accreditation
Since 2022 Dr Lim has been accredited to perform colonoscopy in the national Bowel Cancer Screening Programme. Only experienced colonoscopists who already meet national quality standards can apply, and accreditation follows a formal assessment of knowledge and of colonoscopy observed by expert assessors.
Accredited screening colonoscopists are then reassessed against national standards, including how often the whole bowel is examined and how often polyps are found. Dr Lim applies the same standards to every colonoscopy he performs and publishes his results on the Quality page.
Training and experience
Dr Lim trained in gastroenterology at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, followed by a year-long endoscopy fellowship there. His research on Barrett’s oesophagus, gastric cancer and colonoscopy was published in leading endoscopy journals, and he was awarded prizes at national meetings and a travelling grant to present his work at United European Gastroenterology Week.
He joined the GMC Specialist Register in 2014 and worked as a consultant gastroenterologist at University Hospital of North Durham. In 2017 he moved to Malaysia under the Returning Expert Programme, spending two years as a consultant gastroenterologist and hepatologist at Gleneagles Hospital, where he introduced video capsule enteroscopy, high-resolution oesophageal manometry with impedance, and nasoendoscopy.
In 2019 he took up his current post as a consultant gastroenterologist in Harrogate, where he has since helped to form the Large Polyp and Nutrition multidisciplinary teams. He remains an active member of both.
Teaching and professional activity
In 2020 Dr Lim was appointed Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Leeds, where he teaches medical students. He undertakes peer review and editorial work, and attends the British Society of Gastroenterology and United European Gastroenterology meetings to keep his practice up to date.
Procedures
Gastroscopy, colonoscopy (with or without dye spray), bowel cancer screening colonoscopy, flexible sigmoidoscopy, polyp removal (polypectomy) and endoscopic mucosal resection (EMR).