Mr Pulkit Sethi

Mr Pulkit Sethi is a distinguished Consultant Hepatobiliary and General Surgeon practicing at Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital. Mr Sethi holds a dual pedigree of international and UK training, including an intensive Master of Chirugery (MCh) in Surgical Gastroenterology and the Intercollegiate FRCS.

He has been instrumental in developing and advancing the robotic hepatobiliary program at Hampshire Hospitals, where he personally performed the trust’s historic first-ever procedures utilizing the fifth-generation da Vinci 5 platform. Grounded in Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) protocols, his clinical philosophy focuses on leveraging state-of-the-art technology to minimize invasiveness, lower complication risks, and drastically accelerate post-operative recovery for his patients.

Surgical Volume & Clinical Milestones:

• Over 1,100 Gallbladder Removals (Cholecystectomies): Comprising over 1,000 advanced laparoscopic cholecystectomies and more than 100 complex robot-assisted cholecystectomies.
• High-Volume Advanced Hernia Repairs: Comprehensive experience in performing advanced laparoscopic and robotic-assisted reconstructions for complex abdominal wall defects and groin hernias.
• Over 100 Robot-Assisted HPB Procedures: utilising the UK’s most advanced, fifth-generation da Vinci 5 surgical system, leveraging its next-generation precision and force-feedback architecture.
• Over 100 Minimally Invasive Liver Resections: across both advanced laparoscopic and sophisticated robotic approaches.
• Over 500 Total Liver Resections: managing complex open and minimally invasive major liver resections.

Surgical Innovation & Quality Improvement:

A passionate advocate for healthcare safety, Mr Sethi has spearheaded major clinical audits and Quality Improvement Projects (QIPs). Notably, during the COVID-19 pandemic, he along with his colleagues, orchestrated the trust’s safe elective liver cancer surgery relocation pathway. This pioneering operational model maintained excellent clinical outcomes despite severe resource constraints and was published as a blueprint for safe elective care in the British Journal of Surgery. He has also championed the introduction of advanced intraoperative Indocyanine Green (ICG) dye imaging in his practice to optimize safety during gallbladder removals.

Peer-Reviewed Publication Highlights:

• Welsh, F., Sethi, P., … & Rees, M. (2025). Quantitative liver function imaging and whole genome sequencing – Effective modalities for a new era in personalised decision-making for operable colorectal liver metastases? HPB (Oxford).
• Sundaravadanan, S., Welsh, F., Sethi, P., … & Rees, M. (2024). Novel multiparametric MRI detects improved future liver remnant quality post-dual vein embolization. HPB.
• Ghazaly, M., Sethi, P., … & Saeb-Parsy, K. (2022). Hepatic artery reconstruction is a risk factor for arterial thrombosis after liver transplantation in adults. BJS Open.
• Jitsumura, M., Sethi, P., Welsh, F., … & Rees, M. (2021). Model for safe elective liver resection during the SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) pandemic: lessons for enhanced recovery. British Journal of Surgery.
• Sethi, P., Thavanesan, N., Welsh, F., … & Rees, M. (2021). Quantitative multiparametric MRI allows safe surgical planning in patients undergoing liver resection for colorectal liver metastases. BJR Case Reports.