Mr. Edward Caruana MD

Mr Edward Caruana is a Consultant Thoracic Surgeon at the Glenfield Hospital (University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust), with private practice at The Park Hospital, Nottingham and The Meriden Hospital, Coventry.

His clinical work spans general thoracic surgery, thoracic surgical oncology and thoracic trauma, with particular interests in disorders of the diaphragm, pleural disease and thoracic pain. He chairs the Diaphragm Working Group of the Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery in Great Britain and Ireland, sits on the Executive Committee of the UK Pleural Society, and leads the Pleural Disease Working Group of the European Society of Thoracic Surgeons. He is Lead for Audit and Quality Improvement in Thoracic Surgery at Glenfield Hospital, holds an Honorary Lectureship at the University of Leicester, and has published more than 50 peer-reviewed papers.

Mr Caruana accepts instructions for claimant, defendant and single joint expert work, both directly from solicitors and through medico-legal agencies. Instructions are accepted across clinical negligence (breach of duty and causation); issues relating to surgical consent and the disclosure of material risks; personal injury (condition and prognosis); chest and thoracic trauma, including road traffic accidents; pleural disease including pneumothorax, chest drains and their management; missed or delayed diagnosis or follow-up of lung cancer, pulmonary nodules and pulmonary metastases; diaphragm and phrenic nerve injury, including iatrogenic injury and missed or delayed diagnosis; and chronic post-surgical and post-traumatic chest pain. Instructions are accepted in respect of claimants aged 12 and over.

Appointments are typically available within two weeks, and reports typically delivered within four weeks; expedited timescales and fixed-fee quotations are available.

Expertise

General Thoracic Surgery & Thoracic Surgical Oncology

- Lung Nodule Diagnosis & Management, including ION Robotic Bronchoscopy

- Lung Resection, for Cancer and Benign Disease

- Lung Cancer: Early Stage, Locally-Advanced

- Pulmonary Metastasis

- Mediastinal, Thymic and Chest Wall Tumours

- Airway Obstruction

- Emphysema and Lung Volume Reduction (including Surgery & Valves)

- Chronic / Persistent Pain after Thoracic Surgery

Thoracic Trauma

- Chest Trauma, including Road Traffic Accidents

- Rib Fractures, Flail Chest, Sternal Fractures and Surgical Fixation

- Traumatic Pneumothorax and Haemothorax

- Chronic Pain after Chest Trauma / Injury

Pleural Disease

- Spontaneous Pneumothorax

- Pleural Effusion, Infection & Empyema

- Malignant Pleural Disease, including Mesothelioma

- Pleural Thickening

- Pleurodesis

- Chest Drain Management & Complications

Diaphragm & Phrenic Nerve

- Diaphragm Elevation, Eventration, Weakness & Paralysis

- Phrenic Nerve Injury, including Iatrogenic

- Diaphragm Plication, including the assessment and timing of surgery

Not Undertaken

- Pectus Deformity

- Lung Transplantation

- Cardiac, Vascular and Oesophageal Surgery

- Children under 12

Cardiff University Bond Solon Expert Witness Certificate (Civil), in progress; Bond Solon Courtroom Skills for Expert Witnesses(2026); Bond Solon Excellence in Report Writing (2025); Medico-Legal Skills Course, Imperial College London (2014).