Mr Carl Hardwidge BM FRCSGlas
Neurosurgeon
Mr Carl Hardwidge was appointed as a consultant in 1992 and remains in the same unit. He has had a very broad experience in all aspects of adult neurosurgery but has developed a particular interest and expertise in skull base surgery, including the management of acoustic neuromas; trigeminal, glossopharyngeal neuralgia and hemifacial spasm; chiari malformation and syringomyelia from all causes; intradural spinal tumours; degenerative spinal surgery and training and examining.
Mr Hardwidge was an examiner for the Intercollegiate Exam Board in Neurosurgery for 15 years, serving as the Hon Secretary and as exam assessor. He is now an international Neurosurgical FRCS Examiner. From the training side, he chaired the regional training committee for more than 10 years and was Regional Training Program Director from 2017 to 2021. He became Clinical Director of Neuroscience Stroke Rehabilitation and Spinal surgery within his Trust in 2012 which he stepped down from in November 2018. Mr Hardwidge continues in a full time NHS consultant post.
As a newly qualified consultant he undertook report personal injury work for the first five years or so, attending court on a number of occasions mainly related to post traumatic syringomyelia and the onset of chiari related symptoms, but also other post trauma injuries.
Having stepped down from a major management role in his Trust, he has restarted undertaking Medico legal work. He has undertaken a training course through the Royal Society of Medicine and has written reports for both defendants and claimants. Mr Hardwidge also worked for the coroner as her expert in a jury case. He is now looking to expand his medico-legal practice.
Mr Hardwidge is available for video consultation where appropriate and remote hearings for trial by video links.
He is past president of the British Skull Base Society, Past President of the European Skull Base Society and conference president at the World Congress of Skull Base Surgeons in 2012.
Mr Hardwidge has undertaken Bond Solon report writing and court room skills courses in 2022. He plans to complete the rest of the training to achieve Bond Solon Qualification.
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