Professor Sandip Hindocha

Professor Hindocha specialises in the full breadth of plastic, reconstructive and cosmetic surgery. His core surgical areas include traumatic and post-cancer reconstruction, hand and upper limb surgery, burn and scar management, breast surgery, cosmetic surgical procedures of the face and body, and the excision and reconstruction of skin cancers and melanoma. For medico-legal purposes, he provides expert opinions across all these domains and holds particular expertise in scarring, disfigurement, and the sequelae of trauma and surgical complications.

Professor Hindocha holds consulting rooms on Harley Street, London, and NHS consultant appointments. His medico-legal practice, Harley Street Legal, accepts instructions from solicitors and legal professionals across England and Wales. Desktop reviews can be completed for cases nationwide; where an in-person examination is required, this takes place at the Harley Street consulting rooms.

Yes. Professor Hindocha is on the GMC Specialist Register in Plastic Surgery. This is a requirement for any surgeon wishing to practise as a consultant in an NHS hospital in the UK and confirms that he has completed the full programme of recognised specialty training and met the standards set by the General Medical Council and the Royal College of Surgeons of England. Solicitors are welcome to verify his registration directly on the GMC website.

Yes. As a practising cosmetic and reconstructive surgeon, Professor Hindocha is well-placed to provide expert opinion on the standard of care provided in cosmetic surgery procedures, the appropriateness of consent, the management of complications, and the prognosis for remedial or revision surgery. He regularly provides expert witness reports in cases involving rhinoplasty, breast augmentation and reduction, blepharoplasty, abdominoplasty, and non-surgical cosmetic procedures that have resulted in injury or disfigurement.

Professor Hindocha has been providing medico-legal expert opinions throughout his career as a consultant surgeon. He has now completed over 500 instructions and is recognised as one of the more experienced plastic surgery expert witnesses in England and Wales. His opinions span the full range of plastic and reconstructive surgical specialties, and he is fully trained in the duties and obligations of an expert witness under CPR Part 35.