Description

Mr Carl Hardwidge – Consultant Neurosurgeon

I was appointed consultant in 1992 and remained in the same unit. I have had a very broad
experience in all aspects of adult neurosurgery but have developed interest and expertise in Skull
Base surgery, including the management of acoustic neuromas and skull base meningiomas;
trigeminal and glossopharyngeal neuralgia and hemifacial spasm; Chiari Malformation and
syringomyelia from all causes; intradural spinal tumours; degenerative spinal surgery. I have served
as President of the British and European Skull Base Societies and presented at many national and
international meetings.

I was an examiner for the Intercollegiate exam board in Neurosurgery for 15 years serving as the
Hon Secretary for the exam board and as exam assessor. I am now an international Neurosurgical
FRCS Examiner. From the training side I chaired the regional training committee for more than 10
years and I was the Regional Training Program Director from 2018-2022. I became Clinical Director
of Neuroscience Stroke Rehabilitation and Spinal surgery within my Trust in 2012 which I stepped
down from in November 2018. I continued in a full time NHS consultant post until May 2023 and I
now work in Private practice.

Training
Undergraduate training at Southampton Medical school; Neurosurgery training at University hospital
of Wales as SHO / Registrar; Registrar at the Walton Centre for Neurosurgery Liverpool and Senior
Registrar in Birmingham at the Midlands Centre for Neurosurgery in Smethwick, Queen Elizabeth
Hospital and the Birmingham Children’s Hospital.

Expert Training
As a newly qualified consultant I undertook report personal injury work for the first 5 years or so.
Attending court on a number of occasions mainly related to post traumatic syringomyelia, but also
other post trauma injuries.

Having stepped down from the clinical director role I have rekindled my interest in Medico legal work.
I have undertaken a training courses through the Royal Society of Medicine in 2016 and completed
the Bond Solon courses making me eligible for the CUBS certificate which I received in January
2024. . I have also attended courses on personal injury and medical malpractice with Bond Solon. I
and have written reports for both defendants and claimants. I have also worked for the coroner as
her expert locally and nationally. I am now looking to expand my medico-legal practice.
Membership

Membership
Society of British Neurosurgeons; British Skull base Society; British association of Spinal Surgeons;
Royal Society of Medicine; British Meningioma Society and FFEW
Mr Carl Hardwidge is available for video consultation where appropriate and remote
hearings for trial by video links.