Designation
Consultant Thoracic & Robotic Surgeon
FRCS(CTh) · FRCSEd(CTh)
NHS Base
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust
Honorary Appointments
Honorary Consultant Thoracic Surgeon — Queen Elizabeth Hospital Woolwich and Darent Valley Hospital
Private Practice
London Bridge Hospital
The Lister Hospital, Chelsea
Canary Wharf & City of London
Access
Appointments within 2–3 days
Self-referrals welcome
Fees
New consultations from £250
Most major insurers accepted
GMC Registration
6150382
Contact
Jo Mitchelson, Private PA
020 7952 2882
pa@lungsurgeon.co.uk
Patient Reviews
Clarity before intervention.
Every time.
“Most patients who come to me with a lung nodule do not need surgery. My job is to tell them that with confidence — or, where intervention is the right answer, to make sure it is the most precise and least invasive option available.”
Dr Okiror’s NHS base, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, is the UK’s largest lung cancer centre — and home to the UK’s largest thoracic robotic surgery programme, performing 71.3% of anatomic resections robotically, more than double the national rate of 24%. London Bridge Hospital, where he sees private patients, was the first centre in Europe to offer robotic ION bronchoscopy in routine clinical practice outside NHS trials. Both institutions are ranked in the top ten UK hospitals by Newsweek World’s Best Hospitals 2026, assessed independently across 32 countries.
Within this framework, Dr Okiror performed 153 lung cancer operations in 2024–25 — over 1,000 as a consultant. He personally accounts for approximately 1.94% of all lung cancer surgery in the UK — around one in every 50 operations performed nationally. His operative survival rate is 99.59% against a national benchmark of 98.5%. More than 80% of operations are performed by robotic or minimally invasive technique. Source: SCTS National Thoracic Surgery Audit 2024–25; personal operative data 2024–25.
His private practice is built around lung nodule assessment and early lung cancer decision-making: consultant-led diagnosis with clear next steps from the first appointment. Where investigation or surgery is needed, he offers robotic bronchoscopy (ION) and minimally invasive robotic surgery at London Bridge Hospital. He also leads the nationally commissioned Advanced Emphysema Surgical Service at GSTT — the sole endobronchial valve and lung volume reduction surgery operator at GSTT and London Bridge Hospital — with a monthly specialist MDT that uniquely includes the Harefield lung transplant team.
Dr Okiror sits in approximately 180 lung MDTs per year across the south-east regional network — three weekly NHS lung MDTs at Guy’s and St Thomas’, Queen Elizabeth Hospital Woolwich, and Darent Valley Hospital (where he holds honorary consultant thoracic surgeon appointments), together with a fortnightly private-sector lung MDT and the monthly GSTT emphysema MDT joined by the Harefield lung transplant team. He chairs ad hoc complex-case MDTs at GSTT, including joint discussions with the ECMO team, and provides cross-specialty thoracic surgical input to the Lane Fox respiratory failure service, adult congenital heart disease (ACHD), and ENT and head and neck teams.
Beyond his clinical work, Dr Okiror holds active examining and standard-setting appointments across the UK and Europe: member of the Surgical Specialty Board in Cardiothoracic Surgery at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, nominated by the Board as its representative to the College’s Robotic Surgery Taskforce; examiner for both the UK Intercollegiate Board and the European Board of Cardiothoracic Surgery; and Block Lead at King’s College London Medical School. He has published over 30 peer-reviewed papers and four book chapters in reference thoracic surgical textbooks. He is Lead Surgeon at GSTT for the NIHR-funded MIST-4 trial (ISRCTN16328099) and PRO-SEAL (ISRCTN15099654).