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Fee assured
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Verified account
- Not in Open Referral network
Specialises in
- Hand surgery
- Lower limb surgery
- Paediatric
- Reconstructive surgery
Offers
- Face-to-face consultations
- Video and telephone consultations
About me
Current posts:
Consultant Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeon
Royal Free Hospital NHS Trust
Associate Professor of Plastic Surgery UCL
Mr Dariush Nikkhah is an Internationally renowned Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeon. He is a full member of British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons (BAPRAS), and holds a substantiative NHS Consultant post at the Royal Free Hospital NHS Trust. He specialises in breast reconstruction surgery, microsurgery and hand surgery.
Mr Nikkhah founded the London Microsurgery Group in 2021 which accepts referrals for complex microsurgical reconstructions after cancer and trauma. He is a leading international specialist in reconstructive microsurgery after cancer and trauma. His private practice is located in North London at St John and Elizabeth Hospital and The Royal Free Private Patients unit and HCA hospitals. Mr Nikkhah has a particular interest and is renowned for microsurgical breast reconstruction with the DIEP flap and TUG flap. He has a 0% DIEP flap transplant failure rate in 2023, 2024, 2025. He is one of the highest volume microsurgeons in Europe. Mr Nikkhah and his team were the first to introduce minimal access breast reconstruction to the UK and performed the UK's First Robotically Raised DIEP flap after mastectomy.
Mr Nikkhah received his undergraduate degree in Medicine at the University of Southampton. He completed his registrar training on the prestigious pan thames rotation in London at The Royal Free, Barts, Great Ormond St Hospital for Children and Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead. This was followed by an advanced specialist fellowship in Reconstructive Microsurgery at Royal Perth Hospital in Western Australia in 2018.
Mr Nikkhah's research interests include improving outcomes in reconstructive surgery for patients with cancers of the breast, and soft tissue reconstruction of the hand. He is an Associate Professor at University College London and has given national and international lectures on a broad range of topics related to plastic surgery. He has published more than 182 scientific journal articles. He has written two textbooks on reconstructive surgery with Springer Nature and Thieme. He is on the editorial board for Microsurgery Journal.
Areas of interest
Breast Surgery ; DIEP flap; TUG flap; Cosmetic breast surgery; Abdominoplasty; Liposuction; Arm and thigh reduction; Fat grafting/Lipofilling, Microsurgical breast reconstruction; breast reduction; mastopexy; breast augmentation
Hand surgery; Anterolateral thigh flap; Nerve compressions, Carpal tunnel syndrome; Dupuytren's contracture; ganglions; DeQuervains; trigger finger; tenosynovitis; trigger thumb; mallet finger; arthritis in hand; arthritis in fingers; arthritis in thumb; cubital tunnel syndrome; hand injuries; hand fractures; finger fractures; dislocated finger; skiers thumb; tendon injury; ligament injury, congenital hand; paediatric hand; toe to hand transfer; syndactyly release; duplicate thumb;
Skin Surgery; BCC; SCC; skin cancer; lipoma; cyst; scars; wounds; dermatological surgery; facial plastic surgery; reconstructive surgery, melanoma, Sentinel node biopsy, Groin and Axillary Dissection
Medical secretaries
- Tegan Leader
- Medserv 2nd Floor Rockwood House 9-17 Perrymount Road Haywards Heath RH16 3TW
- 020 4540 3903
- mrnikkhah@theclinic.co.uk
Anaesthetists worked with
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Dr Dariush Nikkhah has worked with Dr Jayanta Mukherjee at the following hospitals:
- Royal Free Hospital (1-5)
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Dr Dariush Nikkhah has worked with Dr Oma Dulan at the following hospitals:
- Royal Free Hospital (1-5)
- Hospital of St John & St Elizabeth (1-5)
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Dr Dariush Nikkhah has worked with Dr Marc Wittenberg at the following hospitals:
- Hospital of St John & St Elizabeth (1-5)
Information for healthcare professionals (Bupa patients only, last 12 months)
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B2999
Reconstruction of breast using stacked deep inferior epigastric perforator flap (DIEP) (including delayed reconstruction) - unilateral (2 flaps) - (5-50)
Royal Free Hospital (5-50)
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B2996
Reconstruction of breast using deep inferior epigastric perforator flap (DIEP) (including delayed reconstruction) - bilateral (single flap per breast) - (5-50)
Royal Free Hospital (1-5)
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B2987
Reconstruction of breast using transverse upper gracilis (TUG) flap (including delayed reconstruction and nipple reconstruction) - (1-5)
Hospital of St John & St Elizabeth (1-5) Royal Free Hospital (1-5)
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T8640
Sampling of internal mammary lymph nodes - (1-5)
Royal Free Hospital (1-5)
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B3130
Unilateral mastopexy (following reconstruction) - (1-5)
Royal Free Hospital (1-5)
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B3580
Nipple areola complex reconstruction +/- liposuction and fat transfer - (1-5)
Royal Free Hospital (1-5)
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T7602
Microvascular free tissue transfer (when added to other codes) (including closure of secondary defect) - (1-5)
Royal Free Hospital (1-5)
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S4183
Debridement and primary suture of wound with involvement of deeper tissue - trunk & limbs - (1-5)
Royal Free Hospital (1-5) Hospital of St John & St Elizabeth (1-5)
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B3594
Plastic procedures on nipple - (1-5)
Royal Free Hospital (1-5)
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B2990
Reconstruction of breast using deep inferior epigastric perforator flap (DIEP) with vascularised lymph node transfer (including delayed reconstruction) - unilateral - (1-5)
Royal Free Hospital (1-5)
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S0633
Excision of lesion of skin or subcutaneous tissue - up to three, Trunk & Limbs (excluding lipoma) - (1-5)
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S0602
Primary excision of malignant lesion - Head & Neck - (1-5)
Royal Free Hospital (1-5)
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W2830
Removal of internal fixation from bone / joint, excluding K-wires +/- image guidance - (1-5)
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T7603
Microvascular free tissue transfer (as sole procedure including closure of secondary defect) - (1-5)
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T5210
Dupuytren's fasciectomy multiple digits with proximal interphalangeal joints - (1-5)
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A6510
Carpal tunnel release (open) - (1-5)
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S0653
Removal of benign lesion in muscle or deeper tissue (excluding lipoma) - (1-5)
Royal Free Hospital (1-5)
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T6982
Tenolysis of flexor tendon of hand - (1-5)
Royal Free Hospital (1-5)
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S0656
Removal of small lipoma less than 10cm - (1-5)
Royal Free Hospital (1-5)
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B3032
Removal of prosthesis from breast (including capsulectomy) - (1-5)
Royal Free Hospital (1-5)
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S2500
Local flap - less than 9cm2 - (1-5)
Royal Free Hospital (1-5)
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T7604
Vein/artery graft as part of microvascular free tissue transfer - (1-5)
Royal Free Hospital (1-5)
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S3100
Re-exploration of free flap - (1-5)
Royal Free Hospital (1-5)