Mr. Carl Hardwidge

Update. Mr Carl Hardwidge is available for video consultation where appropriate and remote hearings for trial by video links.

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.

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 training courses through the Royal Society of Medicine and completed the Bond Solon courses, inlcuding the Cardiff University Bond Solon certificate in Civil Law in January 2024. I 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.

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.

Royal Society of Medicine report writing and witness training 2016. Received the Cardiff University Bond Solon certificate in Civil Law in January 2024. I have also attended courses on personal injury and medical malpractice with Bond Solon.

Society of British Neurosurgeons; British Skull base Society; British association of Spinal Surgeons; Royal Society of Medicine; British Meningioma Society.