Dr. Rakesh Kucheria

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Dr Rakesh Kucheria is a highly-experienced consultant orthopaedic surgeon who comes with 25 Plus years of experience with a special interest in hip and knee replacements and revision surgery in the London area. He did his MBBS from MAMC, Delhi and pursued his FRCS Orthopedics from the UK.

Dr Kucheria is renowned for pioneering simultaneous double-knee replacement surgery and robotic assisted surgery, resulting in a quicker, safer operation and a much faster recovery time for patients. He performs more than 350 hip and knee replacements (including primary and revision surgery) each year in both his NHS and private practices, which according to the National Joint Registry places him in the top few percent of UK surgeons. Other areas of specialist interest include. He is trained at the Royal London Hospital and the world renowned Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital in Stanmore.

More recently, Dr Kucheria has been working with computer-assisted surgery and navigated hip and knee replacements using the Mako smart Robotic arm.

For the last 20 years, Dr Kucheria has been an orthopaedic consultant at Heatherwood and Wexham Park hospitals now part of Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust. He has been consistently recognized by the trust with Clinical Excellence Awards and was the lead clinician for this department. He also leads the Enhanced Recovery Programme in both his NHS and private practices. This pathway is revolutionary for joint replacements which has been designed to minimise post-operative pain and to maximise early mobility to ensure a speedy recovery from your surgery.