- Bupa Platinum consultant
- Fee assured
- Verified account
- Open Referral network
Specialises in
- Knee
Offers
- Face-to-face consultations
- Video and telephone consultations
About me
Tim Spalding is a specialist knee surgeon at University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, in Coventry, UK, and Honorary Associate Professor at the University of Warwick. He is current president of the international ACL Study Group, dedicated to improving managment of ACL injures and CoFounder of IMReF, International Meniscus Reconstruction Forum following his work on Meniscal Transplantation.
His focus is on sports related knee injuries and the problem worn knee including partial and full knee arthroplasty surgery. Specialist reconstructive knee surgery procedures include meniscal transplantation, articular cartilage repair, osteotomy and ligament reconstruction. He lectures nationally an internationally on many aspects of knee surgery including his pioneering work on meniscal allograft transplantation.
Training took place in Oxford and at Royal Hospital Haslar, prior to an arthroscopy and knee surgery fellowship in Toronto, Canada in 1994-1995. He qualified from Charing Cross Hospital, London and spent the first part of his medical career with the Royal Marines and the Royal Navy looking after service knees and seeing active service abroad. He joined Coventry in 2000 after 5 years as a Consultant in the armed forces.
He has a busy sports knee surgery practise, runs a knee fellowship program and continues to be very active in teaching and research, pioneering several new techniques. Through his hobby of sailing he was the medical advisor for the Volvo Ocean Race until 2012 and now sits on the Medical advisory committee for the RNLI.
Areas of interest
Knee; Knee Injury; Sports injuries; Anterior knee pain; Knee pain; Knee arthroscopy; Degenerative knee disorders; Ligament reconstruction including anterior cruciate ligament; Knee surgery; Knee replacement surgery; Arthritis; Articular Cartilage repair including Autologous Chondrocyte Implantation; Meniscal Allograft Transplantation, Meniscal Repair and reconstruction using synthetic ACTIFIT implants; Partial Knee Resurfacing using Episurf customised implants; Unicompartmental knee replacement; Patello-femoral replacement; Total Knee Replacement.
Medical secretaries
- Nicki
- Nuffield Health Warwickshire Hospital The Chase Old Milverton Lane LEAMINGTON SPA CV32 6RW
- 01926 772731
- 01926 770159
- nicki@timspalding.com
- Vanesha Vithaldas
- The Cleveland Clinic 24 Portland Street London W1B 1LU
- 020 3423 7172
- TSpaldingMedSec@CCF.ORG
Anaesthetists worked with
- Dr Alistair Brookes Fee Assured
- Dr Barry Phillips Fee Assured
- Dr Jitin Sharma Fee Assured
- Dr Justin Macdonald Perry Fee Assured
- Dr Madhu Puchakayala Not Fee Assured
- Dr Sujey Jayaratnasingam Not Fee Assured
- Dr Nick Gilfillan Fee Assured
- Dr Charles Thoburn Not Fee Assured
- Dr Robert Broomhead Fee Assured
- Dr Amit Pawa Fee Assured
- Dr John Picard Not Fee Assured
Information for healthcare professionals (Bupa patients only, last 12 months)
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W9040
Injection(s) +/- aspiration, into joint, cyst, bursa - unilateral - (>50)
Nuffield Health Warwickshire Hospital (5-50) Cleveland Clinic Portland Place Outpatient Centre (5-50) Cleveland Clinic London Hospital (1-5)
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W8500
Multiple arthroscopic operations on knee (including meniscectomy, chondroplasty, drilling or microfracture) - unilateral - (5-50)
Nuffield Health Warwickshire Hospital (5-50) Cleveland Clinic London Hospital (5-50) Cleveland Clinic Portland Place Outpatient Centre (5-50)
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W4210
Total prosthetic replacement of knee joint +/- cement +/- patella resurfacing - unilateral - (5-50)
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W7410
Multiple ligament reconstruction of knee - (5-50)
Nuffield Health Warwickshire Hospital (5-50) Cleveland Clinic Portland Place Outpatient Centre (1-5) Cleveland Clinic London Hospital (1-5)
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W8230
Arthroscopic meniscal repair - (5-50)
Nuffield Health Warwickshire Hospital (5-50) Cleveland Clinic Portland Place Outpatient Centre (1-5) Cleveland Clinic London Hospital (1-5)
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