Plastic Surgery, in Manchester.

Gorman is, in NHS terms, a senior consultant: lead for facial plastics and abdominal reconstruction at Salford Royal, and part of the microsurgical limb reconstruction team that handles some of the most technically demanding cases the regional trauma network sees. Reconstructive plastic surgery of this kind is the discipline from which the cosmetic specialty originally grew, and surgeons who maintain an active reconstructive practice tend to bring a particular quality of judgement to elective work.

His private aesthetic practice mirrors his NHS interests: facelift and eyelid surgery, body contouring, breast surgery. He is also a national-level trainer in non-surgical aesthetics, head of training at Fox Academy and clinical lead on the non-surgical track of the UCL Aesthetic Masters programme. The unusual combination, of being qualified to operate at the highest end of microsurgical reconstruction while teaching dermal filler technique to other practitioners, gives him a particular vantage on the spectrum between surgical and non-surgical options. Patients are sometimes told they need surgery when a non-surgical approach is appropriate, and vice versa; a surgeon comfortable across both does not have a hammer-and-nail problem.

He holds full membership of the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (BAAPS), the British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons (BAPRAS) and the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ISAPS). His private operating is principally at Pall Mall Medical, with additional sessions at The Pines Hospital and Transform Cosmetic.

Adam Goodwin trained at St Bartholomew's medical school, qualifying as a plastic surgeon and gaining his Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons in Plastic Surgery in 2012. He worked as a consultant plastic surgeon for three years before transitioning to full-time private aesthetic practice, where he has now spent more than a decade. The practical effect is a surgeon whose clinical week is built almost entirely around facial work.

He performs in the region of seven hundred and fifty facial procedures a year, divided roughly evenly between surgical and non-surgical, and his published material is unusually open about technique. The educational video content on his site sits at a different level of substance than most surgical marketing; potential patients who want to understand what a deep-plane facelift actually involves will find an answer there. His specialism is facelift surgery, including primary, secondary and revision cases, with extended interests in eyelid surgery, midface lifting, fat transfer and skin cancer surgery, where he has carried out over a thousand procedures.

For a patient whose primary concern is the face, the focus is the case. Surgeons whose practice is dispersed across breast, body and face inevitably perform fewer of any one procedure. Goodwin is a counter-example, and the depth of his face-only volume is the most useful single fact about him.

Holt's training pathway is unusually deep even by consultant plastic surgery standards. After completing her fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons in plastic surgery, she undertook a year-long oncoplastic breast fellowship at the Nightingale Centre in Manchester, completed a Master's programme in oncoplastic breast surgery (one of only a handful of UK plastic surgeons to do so), then spent a further year on a microsurgery fellowship in Perth, Western Australia. She remained in Australia as a consultant specialising in breast reconstruction before returning to the UK, working in Leeds, and being subsequently recruited to lead breast reconstruction work in Manchester.

Her NHS post is at Wythenshawe Hospital, in both the plastic surgery department and the breast unit, where she performs the full range of reconstructive options including pre-pectoral implant reconstruction and microsurgical autologous procedures (DIEP, TRAM, TUG flaps). The relevance to a cosmetic patient is direct: a surgeon whose week includes microsurgical breast reconstruction brings a different order of anatomical understanding to a breast augmentation or uplift than one whose practice is entirely cosmetic.

Her aesthetic private practice is centred on breast and body surgery for women, with a stated emphasis on natural, long-lasting results. She holds full BAAPS membership and is on the GMC Specialist Register for Plastic Surgery. She was awarded the iWantGreatCare certificate of excellence in 2025. She operates principally at Spire Manchester (Didsbury) and STAR Clinic.