Mr Thomas Routledge is a Consultant Thoracic Surgeon specializing in the diagnosis and treatment of dangerous tumours of the chest and its organs, with a main area of expertise in robotic assisted minimally invasive surgery. His surgical training was in the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, followed by Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Centre in New York. At Guys and St Thomas Hospitals, Europe’s largest thoracic surgical service, he is chief of service, and he also leads thoracic surgery for HCA UK at the London Bridge Hospital.