Launch
Website- Bupa Platinum consultant
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Fee assured
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Verified account
- Open Referral network
Offers
- Face-to-face consultations
- Video and telephone consultations
About me
Tim White is a Consultant Orthopaedic Trauma and Sports Surgeon specialising in acute sports injuries. He has run the Acute Knee Injuries Clinic at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh since being appointed Consultant in 2006. He is also the Clinical Director of the Orthopaedic Trauma Service, and a Reader (Associate Professor) at the University of Edinburgh with research interests in recovery from injury, including the use of new biological therapies such as PRP.
Knee Practice
In his NHS practice, Mr White sees all acute knee injuries presenting to the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, and undertakes complex knee reconstruction surgery. In addition, he runs a national NHS referral service, seeing patients with complex injuries referred by other knee specialists in Perth, Dundee, Inverness and the Borders. In Private Practice he, with Dr Carrie McCrea, offers a rapid, integrated service with expert musculoskeletal radiologists, MRI scanning and a superbly equipped state-of-the-art operating theatre. Mr White regularly operates there on both amateur and professional sportsmen and women, including Scottish Premiership footballers.
Treatment offered
His areas of knee surgical practice include the whole range of arthroscopic (keyhole) and open surgeries including meniscal injuries and repair, cartilage injuries and repair, debridement, microfracture and mosaicplasty, patella stabilisation and ligament reconstruction. In addition, non-surgical treatments such as injections of Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) and corticosteroid are immediately available at the Clinic. Mr White does not perform total knee replacements.
Areas of interest
Sports injuries; knee injuries: ACL surgery: arthroscopic surgery: meniscal surgery: meniscal repair: cartilage transplant: mosaicplasty;
Medical secretaries
- Nuffield Edinburgh Hospital
- 40 Colinton Road Edinburgh EH10 5BT
- 0131 447 2340
- eh.bookings@nuffieldheath.com
Anaesthetists worked with
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Mr Tim White has worked with Dr Marc Janssens at the following hospitals:
- Nuffield Health Edinburgh Hospital (1-5)
Information for healthcare professionals (Bupa patients only, last 12 months)
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W8500
Multiple arthroscopic operations on knee (including meniscectomy, chondroplasty, drilling or microfracture) - unilateral - (5-50)
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W7420
Autograft anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction +/- meniscectomy - (5-50)
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20365
Follow-up out-patient consultation - remote - (1-5)
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W8230
Arthroscopic meniscal repair - (1-5)
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W7580
Open surgical stabilisation of patella, including soft tissue/tendon transfer or release, +/- application of cast (adult) - (1-5)