Mr Neil Haldar MBBS MD FRCS (Eng) FRCS (Urol)

Mr Neil Haldar MBBS MD FRCS (Eng) FRCS (Urol) is a full-time Consultant Urological Surgeon and Urology Cancer Lead at Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust, specialising in robotic prostatectomy, laparoscopic kidney surgery, and urological oncology. He sees private patients at locations in Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, Oxfordshire and London. Further information at www.mrhaldar.com. He graduated from King's College School of Medicine with numerous academic prizes and served as a demonstrator in anatomy at Guy's Hospital, London, before joining the Oxford Junior Surgical Training Scheme as the top-ranked candidate from over 200 national and international applicants. He was awarded the Allinson Foundation Research Fellowship by the Royal College of Surgeons and completed an MD at the Nuffield Department of Surgery, University of Oxford. His research was widely published in The Lancet and other leading peer-reviewed journals, presented at major international conferences, and featured in a national newspaper. He was shortlisted for the Association of Surgeons of GB and Ireland Moynihan Prize and nominated as The Royal Society of Medicine and GlaxoSmithKline Urology Trainee of the Year. He completed his training in urology within the Oxford Deanery, subsequently undertaking visiting fellowships at the Cleveland Clinic, Ohio and in Nantes, France, developing specialist expertise in laparoscopic urology. In 2005 he was appointed Clinical Lead in Laparoscopic Urology at Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust and subsequently Urology Cancer Lead. As a nominated pelvic cancer surgeon for the Thames Valley Cancer Network, he has performed over 1,000 nerve-sparing radical prostatectomies, robotic and open, and radical cystectomy with bladder reconstruction for bladder cancer, achieving excellent oncological and functional outcomes. He started the da Vinci robotic prostatectomy programme at Buckinghamshire NHS Trust, making robotic prostatectomy available to NHS patients in the Thames Valley for the first time. He has performed over 600 laparoscopic renal surgeries. He was one of the first surgeons in the United Kingdom to perform single-incision laparoscopic nephrectomy. In 2018, in conjunction with GenesisCare, he was among the first in the UK to routinely perform the SpaceOAR rectal spacer procedure for patients undergoing prostate radiotherapy. Mr Haldar holds two patents from Isis Innovation, the commercialisation arm of Oxford University, and was quoted as a urological expert in The Times in August 2025. He holds visiting consultant and professorial roles in Nepal, Tanzania and China. He has sat on committees at The Royal Society of Medicine, The Royal College of Surgeons, and the Oxford School of Surgery where he is an examiner. He is Specialist Advisor to the National Library for Health and serves on the editorial boards of the RSM Journal of Current Medical Literature in Urology, the International Journal of Clinical Reviews, and Men's Health for Specialists.

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