Mr Chandra Cheruvu
Qualifications
MB BS, MS (Gen Surg), FRCS(G), FRSC(Engl), FRCS (Gen Surg)
GMC number: 4362492
Practising since: 1984
Specialties
General Surgery
Consultation times
- Monday PM
- Thursday PM
- Overview
About
Mr Cheruvu is a highly experienced Consultant Laparoscopic and Upper Gastro‑Intestinal Surgeon at Nuffield Health North Staffordshire Hospital, where he has been practising since 2004. With a career spanning more than three decades, he is recognised for his expertise in advanced laparoscopic (keyhole) surgery, upper GI procedures, and bariatric (weight‑loss) surgery.
Mr Cheruvu is committed to offering safe, high‑quality,
patient‑centred surgical care. He combines decades of experience with the
latest minimally invasive techniques to support faster recovery, reduced pain,
and excellent patient outcomes.
Education & specialist training
Mr Cheruvu qualified in Medicine in 1984 and went on to
complete extensive higher surgical training across several leading UK and
international centres:
- St George’s University Hospital, London – Higher Surgical Training
- St James’s University Hospital, Leeds – Completion of specialist training (2002)
- Liverpool – Bariatric and advanced laparoscopic surgery fellowship (2003)
As part of a prestigious Royal College of Surgeons scholarship, he also undertook international surgical fellowships in:
- National Cancer Centre, Japan
- Royal Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Australia – Bariatric surgery fellowship
He then joined the University Hospital of North Midlands (Stoke-on-Trent) in 2003 before transitioning to full‑time independent sector practice.
Extensive experience in minimally invasive surgery
Mr Cheruvu has been performing laparoscopic (keyhole) surgery since the early 1990s, developing deep expertise in complex minimally invasive procedures. Since 2003, he has performed over 5,000 laparoscopic operations, covering a wide range of upper GI, bariatric, and hernia surgeries.
His experience includes:
- Laparoscopic gallbladder removal (cholecystectomy)
- Laparoscopic inguinal and abdominal wall hernia repair
- Hiatus hernia repair and anti‑reflux surgery
- Bariatric surgery, including gastric banding, sleeve gastrectomy, gastric bypass, and revision procedures
Since 2003, Mr Cheruvu has provided a comprehensive range of advanced laparoscopic procedures, including:
- Laparoscopic cholecystectomy (gallbladder removal)
- Laparoscopic inguinal hernia repair
- Laparoscopic hiatus hernia repair & anti‑reflux surgery
- Laparoscopic abdominal wall hernia repair
- Laparoscopic splenectomy
- Laparoscopic gastric banding
- Laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy
- Laparoscopic gastric bypass
- Laparoscopic revision bariatric surgery
- Upper GI diagnostic & therapeutic endoscopy
- NEW for 2025: LIRA (Laparoscopic Intraperitoneal Retro‑Rectus Aponeuroplasty) – a state‑of‑the‑art technique for repairing large incisional hernias
Special interests
Mr Cheruvu practices both open and laparoscopic operations. In the last 25 years, the majority of his operations have been performed by laparoscopic techniques.
- Gall bladder – gall stones, polyps, inflammation and non-functioning gall bladder
- Hernia – all forms of hernias including inguinal (groin), femoral, spigelian, lumbar, port site and para-umbilical
- Abdominal wall hernia – primary and complex, recurrent, incisional hernia surgery with mesh repair
- Benign oesophageal disorders – reflux disease, simple and complex giant hiatus hernia repairs, achalasia surgery – hellers cardio-myotomy
- Sub-cutaneous lumps – lipoma, sebaceous cysts
- General surgeical conditions – appendicectomy, abscess, pilonidal sinus excision
- Obesity surgery – for over 20 years he has been actively involved in weight loss assessment and surgical management. The surgical procedures of interest include gastric balloon placement and removal, laparoscopic gastric banding, removal of gastric bands, laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy, laparoscopic roux-en-Y gastric bypass, mini-gastric bypass, revision bariatric surgery from gastric banding or sleeve gastrectomy to gastric bypass
- Endoscopy – he has a special interest in diagnostic and therapeutic upper GI Endoscopy.
Personal interests
- Hiking in the Peak and Lake District, cricket, tennis and listening to classical music
- Community charity work.
Treatments and tests offered by Mr Chandra Cheruvu at Nuffield Health
- Gastroscopy (or gastrointestinal (GI) endoscopy)
- Therapeutic Endoscopy
- Laparoscopic incisional hernia repair
- Weight loss surgery
- Sleeve gastrectomy
- Hernia repair
- Reflux surgery (fundoplication)
- Colonoscopy
- Gastric band (lap banding)
- Pilonidal sinus surgery
- Flexible sigmoidoscopy
- Diagnostic endoscopy
- Obesity surgery (or weightloss surgery)
- Laparoscopic reflux surgery (fundoplication)
- Upper gastrointestinal endoscopy
- Gastric bypass
- Laparoscopic cholecystectomy (gallbladder removal)
Locations Mr Chandra Cheruvu works with
Related experience
Research
Mr Cheruvu has given over 40 invited lectures at various National & International Scientific meetings in the last 2 decades. He is a recognised trainer of laparoscopic and bariatric surgery
He has made over 200 presentations at professional surgical meetings, with over 100 publications in peer reviewed journals on laparoscopic and bariatric surgery. He has been an author of three chapters in surgical textbooks, in laparoscopic and obesity surgery.
Mr Cheruvu has an extremely busy practice at The University Hospital North Staffordshire Stoke on Trent, where he has been instrumental in developing and introducing a complex variety of advanced laparoscopic procedures and bariatric (obesity) surgery, and later at Nuffield Health North Staffordshire.
He has demonstrated his laparoscopic operative techniques through live televised operations at national and IFSO international meetings.
Memberships
- British Medical Association
- British Obesity Surgical Society
- Specialist Register
- Association of Upper Gastro-Intestinal Surgeons
- Association of Laparoscopic Surgeons
- IFSO -International Federation of Surgical Obesity
- EAES - European association of Endoscopic Surgeons
Other posts held
- Consultant General Surgeon, University Hospital of North Staffordshire NHS Trust
Insurers Mr Chandra Cheruvu works with
Mr Chandra Cheruvu works with the following private medical insurance providers:
- Aviva Health
- AXA Health
- Benenden Health
- Bupa
- Bupa On Demand
- Cigna
- CS Healthcare
- The Exeter
- Health-on-Line
- PHC
- Simplyhealth
- Universal Provident
- Vitality Health (Pru Health)
- Westfield Health WPA
- Alliance Healthcare
- Police Mutual
Declaration
Mr Chandra Cheruvu does not hold a share or financial interest in this hospital, another Nuffield Health hospital or the company.
Mr Chandra Cheruvu does not have a share or financial interest in equipment used at this hospital or another Nuffield Health hospital.
Mr Chandra Cheruvu does not hold any paid advisory role(s) at this hospital or on behalf of Nuffield Health.