Mr Neil Dorward, Consultant Neurosurgeon
Mr Neil Dorward
Consultant Neurosurgeon
Mr Dorward is a recommended Consultant Neurosurgeon
Areas of expertise
- Lower back pain
- Degenerative disc disease
- Pituitary tumour
- Sciatica
- Meningiomas
Recommendations for Mr Dorward
These recommendations are for information purposes only. Doctors providing recommendations do so in good faith and are not responsible for clinical outcomes.
Recommended by:
byDr Joanna Hseuh Pei Yong, GP
❝Patient and approachable❞
❝I have known Mr Dorward for 20 years. He is an excellent and thoughtful Neurosurgical opinion especially with respect to pituitary and spinal problems. I have no hesitation in recommending him.❞
byDr Mark Vanderpump, Consultant Endocrinologist
❝An excellent and thoughtful Neurosurgeon who is an excellent pituitary surgery opinion who is highly respected by colleagues and patients❞
byProf. Pierre-Marc Bouloux, General Medicine, Diabetes and Endocrinology
❝Neil Dorward is an outstanding surgeon and colleague, with an exceptional judgement and humanity❞
byDr Michael Beckles, Consultant Respiratory & General Physician
❝Mr Neil Dorward is a very safe pair of hands and good, sensible opinion.❞
❝I have known Mr Dorward for 20 years. He is an excellent and thoughtful Neurosurgical opinion especially with respect to pituitary and spinal problems. I have no hesitation in recommending him.❞
byDr Mark Vanderpump, Consultant Endocrinologist
❝An excellent and thoughtful Neurosurgeon who is an excellent pituitary surgery opinion who is highly respected by colleagues and patients❞
byProf. Pierre-Marc Bouloux, General Medicine, Diabetes and Endocrinology
❝Neil Dorward is an outstanding surgeon and colleague, with an exceptional judgement and humanity❞
byDr Michael Beckles, Consultant Respiratory & General Physician
❝Mr Neil Dorward is a very safe pair of hands and good, sensible opinion.❞
Make an appointment
Address
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The Wellington Hospital (Mondays AM & PM)
Wellington Hospital South Bldg, The, 8A Wellington Pl, London, NW8 9LE
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London Gamma Knife Centre (Mondays AM & PM)
Platinum Medical Centre, 15 - 17 Lodge Road, London, NW8 7JA
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The Wellington Hospital Elstree Waterfront (Wednesdays, AM & PM)
The Waterfront Business Park, Beaufort House, Elstree Road, Elstree, WD6 3BS
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Telephone or video consultation
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About Mr Neil Dorward
GMC number: 3405581
Year qualified: 1989
Place of primary qualification: University of London
Consultant neurosurgeon Mr Neil Dorward works at The Wellington Hospital. He is particularly interested in spinal, endoscopic pituitary, and central skull base surgery. Degenerative disc degeneration, neck and back discomfort, spinal abnormalities, and pituitary tumours are just a few of the problems that Mr Dorward addresses. He is fervently committed to the use of less invasive procedures in spinal and brain surgery.
At St. Mary's Hospital Medical School in London, Mr Dorward finished his undergraduate studies before beginning his training in London Teaching Hospitals. He completed a two-year research degree with a focus on the technologies used in intra-operate image-guidance for neurosurgery after becoming a specialist in the field.
Mr Dorward is a Consultant and the Clinical Lead for Endoscopic Neurosurgery at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in Queen Square, London.
Mr Dorward is highly involved in teaching surgeons in endoscopy due to his passion in medical education. In addition, he serves as the inaugural President of the British Neuro-Endoscopy Society and is the clinical leader for pituitary surgery. Mr Dorward is a vital participant in many research projects and has a keen interest in learning new things.
Areas of expertise
- Back pain
- Brain surgery
- Brain tumours
- Cervical disc replacement
- Cervical discectomy
- Craniotomy for glioma
- Endoscopic procedures
- Endoscopic surgery
- Endoscopic ventricular surgery
- Fusion surgery
- Image-guided neurosurgery
- Lumbar microdiscectomy
- Meningioma
- Minimally invasive spinal surgery
- Neck pain
- Neuro spinal
- Neurological oncology
- Neurooncology
- Percutaneous pedicle screw fixation
- Pituitary region surgery
- Pituitary surgery
- Sciatica
- Scioliosis
- Spinal decompressions
- Spinal fixation
- Spinal surgery
- Spinal tumours
- Stereotactic biopsy
- Ultrasound elastography
- Ventriculostomy
Frequently asked questions
What are the common symptoms that your patients tend to present with?
There are two different parts of my practice, and so they present with different features. The pituitary patients most often present with deteriorating vision, with a loss of field, a gradual progressive loss of the outer parts of their field of vision, coming in towards the centre and then maybe even losing sight in one of their eyes. This would be the commonest pituitary presentation.
The other side of my practice is degenerative spinal surgery, and so the majority of those patients present with the symptoms of spinal nerve root compression such as sciatica or spinal cord compression where they have increasing loss of function in hand, fine finger function and unsteadiness of gait.
Of all the patient groups, the biggest would be the patients presenting with either sciatica or arm pain from nerve compression.
What are the treatments that you're able to offer your patients?
As a surgeon, my treatments are surgical. On the pituitary surgery side of my practice, I do fully endoscopic pituitary surgery. It's a minimal access operation up the nose to remove tumours around the pituitary region.
In spinal surgery, I offer the full range of decompression operations to relieve pressure on the nerve, disc replacement (particularly cervical disc replacement gives very good results). I do a lot of disc replacement and I'm one of the biggest users of disc replacements by numbers. Then there are the complex spinal fixations that I do for patients with very deteriorated lumbar spine who needs screws and rods and fusion operations.
What are your areas of sub-specialist interest?
My areas of interest are around the central skull based endoscopic surgery, going beyond the pituitary surgery to do more intracranial surgeries which is extended transsphenoidal operating, and complex spine surgery. Central skull base surgery is generally around removing tumours near the skull base that are going up into the third ventricle, pushing up into the brain. These are very difficult to get at with standard surgical techniques. Hence, the endoscopic route provides an excellent corridor to get to them.
Professional memberships
Articles by Mr Neil Dorward
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Endocrine outcomes in endoscopic pituitary surgery
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Nasally located ectopic ACTH-secreting pituitary adenoma (EAPA) causing Nelson's syndrome
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Congenital lumbosacral lipomas
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Extended anterior cervical discectomy without fusion
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Disintegration of cervical intervertebral BOP grafts with neurological sequelae
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A technique to reduce CSF leakage after acoustic neuroma surgery
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Postimaging brain distortion
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Neuronavigation--impact on operating time
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Accuracy of true frameless stereotaxy
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Pre-operative planning and intra-operative guidance in modern neurosurgery
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Precise cannulation of the foramen ovale in trigeminal neuralgia complicating osteogenesis imperfecta with basilar invagination
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Clinical validation of true frameless stereotactic biopsy
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The advantages of frameless stereotactic biopsy over frame-based biopsy
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The hitch stitch: an obsolete neurosurgical technique?
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Adult hydrocoele complicating a lumboperitoneal shunt
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