Mr Tushar Agarwal is currently working as a colorectal surgeon at St. Marks Hospital, London. He qualified from the University of Delhi, India, and completed his initial postgraduate training in surgery from the University of Delhi. After moving to the United Kingdom, he completed his higher surgical training from the North West Thames Surgical Rotation. He was awarded an FRCS (Intercollegiate) in 2008, and his speciality training focused on colorectal surgery.

Mr Agarwal subsequently completed a one-year fellowship in colorectal surgery at the University College Hospital and Guys & St. Thomas’ Hospital. He also undertook a period of observership at the Colorectal Unit at Cleveland Clinic in Ohio and at the Trauma unit of Charlotte Maxeke Hospital in Johannesburg, South Africa. Mr Agarwal, who was appointed as a consultant surgeon in 2011, initially joined Chelsea & Westminster Hospital as a locum consultant and was subsequently appointed as a substantive consultant at the London North-West NHS Trust as a colorectal surgeon.

Mr Agarwal specialises in colorectal cancers and carries out cancer operations both laparoscopically and openly. He is the MDT Lead for Colorectal Cancers at St Marks Hospital. He routinely performs proctology procedures (surgery for haemorrhoids, anal fissures and anal fistulae), pilonidal sinus surgery and general surgical procedures such as hernia repairs. Mr Agarwal is a JAG-approved endoscopist and carries out diagnostic upper GI endoscopies and colonoscopies.

He is a recognised endoscopy trainer and routinely trains surgical trainees in endoscopy. He is committed to undergraduate and postgraduate surgical education and is an honorary senior lecturer at Imperial College, London. He is a training programme director for foundation year trainees.

He is so too a consultant trainer at the London Deanery Skills Lab and a recognised consultant trainer for higher surgical trainees in the London North-West Deanery. He is an examiner for the PLAB exam conducted by the General Medical Council for overseas doctors, and is a panel examiner for Imperial College for medical student entrance exams. Outside surgery, Mr Agarwal is an ECB-qualified cricket umpire. He regularly tutors on courses for cricket umpires in Middlesex and has recently been appointed the women’s umpires development officer for Middlesex."

He is also recognised by all private medical insurers, and is Buap Fee assured.