Clinical availability at Spire Hartswood: Tuesday afternoons.I am a consultant vascular and general surgeon at Spire Hartswood private hospital in Brentwood, Essex, offering private vascular and general surgery in our clean and comfortable private hospital.In my private practice at Spire Hartswood Hospital in Brentwood, I perform laparoscopic (keyhole) gallbladder and hernia surgery, and offer private varicose vein surgery. I also perform renal access surgery with a special interest in laparoscopic surgery. I was the first surgeon to perform endovascular aneurysm repair at Basildon Hospital, Essex, and the first to perform carotid endarterectomy under local anaesthesia at Basildon.I became a consultant vascular and general surgeon at Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in 2004.Since gaining my primary medical qualification and undertaking post-graduate training in India, I have been working in the NHS since 1992. I trained in general surgery in the North East Thames surgeons' training scheme under Professor George Hamilton at the Royal Free Hospital and Professors Irwin Taylor and Michael Baum at University College Hospital, London.