Miss Lauren Uppal

Miss Uppal’s private practice is based in North London. The Hospital of St John and Elizabeth is a leading healthcare hospital which provides exceptionally high standards of clinical care and is always up to date with the latest technology.

Her NHS practice is based at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospitals in Central London. She is committed to improving safety and outcomes following surgery and as such, have pioneered a new ‘Wide Awake Surgery’ (also known as WALANT) service for hand surgery.

This has improved the safety of many operations, which are now mainly performed under local anaesthetic instead of general anaesthetic. She graduated with first class honours in New Zealand in 2001, prior to specialising in Plastic Surgery in London. She continued to train in subspecialty areas in fellowships, including training in orthoplastic complex trauma reconstruction and hand surgery at the Royal Centre for Defence Medicine, paediatric hand surgery at Great Ormond St Hospital.

After obtaining Fellowship status at the Royal College of Surgeons, she was also awarded the European Board of Hand Surgery Diploma. She became a consultant in 2014. She is passionate about training the next generation of surgeons.

She is the Course Director for the Advanced Hand and Wrist Cadaveric Dissection Course and she also runs simulation courses on 3D printed models. She teaches at the Royal College of Surgeons, the Royal Society of Medicine and she is on the invited faculty on plastic surgery courses. She sits on the interview panel for National Selection for plastic surgery trainees.

She has many publications in peer reviewed journals, including book chapters, and she has presented my work internationally. She is compassionate and committed to providing the highest quality care.

She has a special interest in Carpal Tunnel Release Surgery.