Mr Farooq is a Consultant General Surgeon with special interest in Colorectal and Endocrine Surgery. He qualified from King Edward Medical College, Lahore, Pakistan in 1992. He carried out his General Surgery training in Pakistan at Mayo Hospital Lahore, a tertiary referral centre opened in 1871, and is a very busy and reputable institution of Pakistan.

During this training, he rotated not only through the specialties of General Surgery but also in Orthopaedics, Urology, Paediatric, Cardiac and Thoracic Surgery. He gained significant experience in dealing with war time injuries and major trauma, which were referred to this hospital at that time from the conflict zones in Pakistan, during his training. 

At the completion of his higher surgical training, he passed the Fellowship Exit Examination in General Surgery from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Pakistan (FCPS) in March 2000. Later he worked in Pakistan for three years before he came to UK and did his Fellowship Diploma (FRCS) from The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 2003.

He did Fellowship for a year in Kidney Transplant Surgery and Vascular Access Surgery at The Royal London and St. Bartholomew’s Hospital London in 2004-5. During this fellowship, he was a part of multi-organ transplant retrieval team and carried out complete cadaveric kidney transplants himself. 

Afterwards he took a permanent NHS post at the Barking Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals, Romford, Essex, UK, where he worked for more than 12 years. Majority of his work here was in Emergency, Colorectal and Endocrine Surgery. He did Intercollegiate Board FRCS (Gen. Surg) in 2011.

Mr Farooq has moved to the Private Healthcare sector completely in 2018. Here he performs surgery for various types of hernias e.g. inguinal, femoral, umbilical, epigastric, ventral and incisional hernias). He offers surgery for removal of gallbladder for symptomatic gallstones - laparoscopic cholecystectomy (removal of gallbladder through keyhole approach).

Also, he performs surgery for removal of haemorrhoids, anal skin tags and other anorectal conditions, pilonidal sinus, lipomas and skin lumps and bumps. He offers most of the treatments as day case. This means that after having the procedure done, patient goes home on the same day. He can arrange very early appointments for consultation, both face to face or on telephone, and offer early treatments as working in the Private Healthcare sector only gives him more flexibility.

Mr Farooq is recognised by most of the UK healthcare insurers e.g. BUPA, AXA, Vitality, WPA, Cigna, Healix, Aviva, Alliance etc.

Mr Farooq has keen interest in General Surgery, Colorectal Surgery, Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery and offers his services in the treatment of conditions in these fields.

General surgery

• Gall bladder surgery
• Hernia surgery
• Appendix removal
• Skin lesions and lumps removal
• Ingrowing toe nail – wedge resection/ removal 

Colorectal surgery

• Haemorrhoids
• Anal fissure: sphincterotomy
• Anal fistula treatment
• Pilonidal sinus treatment
• Removal of anal skin tags
• Treatment of other minor nno-rectal conditions
• Colorectal cancer

Endocrine surgery

• Thyroid and parathyroid surgery (minimally invasive parathyroidectomy)

• The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
• British Medical Association
• British Hernia Society
• Medical Protection Society
• General Medical Council