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22nd October 2023


Mr Haldar has an excellent "bedside manner", immediately exuding an air of confidence in his expertise as well as empathy. Due to my own personal experience (prostate biopsy) I have given 4* rather than 5* as I do feel Mr Haldar should have warned me of the great discomfort (pain, frankly) of this procedure under local anaesthesia and, as a private patient, I should have been offered the option of a general anaesthetic. Only after the event did I go to google and find that general anaesthesia is in fact routinely given by many urologists for prostate biopsy, so I do wonder why this was never even mentioned as a possibility by Mr Haldar. Having said that, I really was most impressed that, after results confirmed my need for fairly urgent treatment, Mr Haldar suggested I should speak to an oncologist for probable radiotherapy, whereas I gather many in my situation are routinely recommended to suffer the many miseries of radical prostatectomy. So rather than suggesting the surgery that could have earned him a fat fee, Mr Haldar simply referred me on, to the detriment of his own bank balance. For this I am immensely grateful as, 12 months later, my treatment appears to have been successful and I still have my prostate!

23rd October 2023
Response from Mr Neil Haldar

Thank you for the kind words. I'm so happy to hear that you are well. I'm sorry that you found the prostate biopsy so painful. 99% of our patients, both privately and in our NHS department, choose to have the biopsy under local anaesthetic as it avoids a day in hospital and the side effects of a full general anaesthetic. A small proportion do prefer to have it under a general anaesthetic, and we do offer this, of course. I'm sorry that I did not make this clearer to you at the time. Wishing you all the very best in the future. Kind regards, Neil Haldar

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Written by a patient at Thame Community Hospital
6th March 2020


Through the whole experience and journey Dr Halder has been very supportive showing care and understanding and providing advice/guidance that allowed me to make decisions on the journey. A great experience and an excellent Nursing team at High Wycombe hospital and ongoing after support from the whole team. Thankyou.

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Written by a patient at Thame Community Hospital
4th March 2020


Mr Haldar has my total confidence. I have been on active surveillance for nearly 11 years and at no time have I found Mr Haldar and his team to be anything other than great listeners , good advisors , friendly and ready to answer my questions (even if I have asked them before)! If in the future (as is possible) I need surgery I do feel as if I am in safe hands.

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Profile

Mr Neil Haldar is a full time Consultant Urological surgeon in Buckinghamshire. He graduated from King’s College School of Medicine in 1992 and was a demonstrator in anatomy at Guy’s Hospital, London before joining the Oxford Junior Surgical training scheme. In 1997 he was awarded the Allinson Foundation Research Fellowship from the Royal College of Surgeons and undertook a Master’s degree at the Nuffield Dept of Surgery in Oxford. Mr Haldar then went on to complete his higher surgical urology training in Oxford following which he undertook further visiting fellowships to the Cleveland Clinic, Ohio and Nantes, France to develop his specialist interest in laparoscopic urology. In 2005 he was appointed as Clinical Lead in laparoscopic urology to Buckinghamshire NHS Trust. As one of the nominated pelvic cancer surgeons for the Thames Valley Cancer Network he carries out nerve-sparing laparoscopic radical prostatectomy for prostate cancer and radical cystectomy with bladder reconstruction for bladder cancer with excellent continence rates in both procedures. He works closely within a multidisciplinary team that in addition to surgery also offers radical radiotherapy, brachytherapy, chemotherapy and active surveillance.

In 2008 Mr Haldar became one of the first surgeons in the UK to perform single incision transperitoneal and extraperitoneal laparoscopic nephrectomy and pyeloplasty. He has published widely on all aspects of urology and his current main area of research is Enhanced Recovery Surgery.

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