Mr Yogesh Bhatt graduated from the University of Manchester Medical School with honours in 2004 having received a first class honours degree in neuroscience from the Imperial College London School of Medicine in 2003. 

He has 16 years of ENT experience in all aspects of ENT and has held several clincial leadership positions in the specialty including Clinical Director or ENT at the Royal Free Hopistal and Pathway Director for Head and Neck Cancer for North and East London. He is the Senior Endocrine Surgeon at the Royal Free Hospital. He holds Honorary Consultant positions at University College London Hospital and St Bartholomew's Hospital.

Mr Bhatt represents one of only a handful of ENT Surgeons nationally to have been awarded the Diploma in Child Health (DCH) from the Royal College of Paediatric and Child Health. He sees this further training as essential to provide the highest level of care to his paediatric patients. He has been a member of Council of the British Association of Paediatric Otolaryngologist. 

Mr Bhatt has undertaken over 1000 neck ultrasound examinations and is accredited by the Royal College of Radiologists, a rarity amongst neck surgeons.

His training includes time in Neurosurgery at Queen Square, London prior to starting his postgraduate ENT training. He beneifts from experience in high volume centres of excellence including the Manchester Royal Infirmary, the Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital and the Christie Hospital.

Following his general training Mr Bhatt was competitively awarded several prestigious training fellowships. These include the nationally appointed Royal College Training Interface Fellowship in Advanced Head and Neck Surgical Oncology at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham.

In 2016 Mr Bhatt was awarded the British Association of Endocrine and Thyroid Surgery travelling fellowship. Through this he undertook international fellowships with leading endocrine surgery units in the USA including the Massachusetts Ear and Eye Infirmary in Boston, The Moffitt Cancer Centre in Florida and the Georgia Regents Thyroid/Parathyroid Centre in Augusta. This has equipped him with a state of the art understanding of all aspects of thyroid and parathyroid surgery. He maintains strong professional links with these units and the thyroid cancer service at the Insitut Gustave Roussy, Paris.

He has been Chairman of the Royal Free Hospital Thyroid Cancer Multidosciplinary Team since 2017 and led the Parathyroid Surgery service since 2018. He contributes to the World Congress on Thyroid Cancer.

Mr Bhatt enjoys engaging in medical education and holds a post-graduate certificate in medical education from the University of Manchester and is an undergraduate tutor at University College London Medical School and postgraduate tutor to foundation training doctors.