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Specialises in

• Hip

• Knee

Offers

• Face-to-face consultations
• Video and telephone consultations

About me

Mr James Donaldson is a well-respected consultant orthopaedic surgeon with HCA Healthcare. He is based at The Wellington Hospital and The Wellington Hospital Elstree Waterfront along with an NHS consultant post at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital in Stanmore. His subspecialties include hip and knee issues and he offers a first-class service in arthroscopy, replacement and revision surgeries.

Mr Donaldson was awarded his medical qualification at University College London Medical School in 2002, receiving a certificate of merit in his MB finals. He then worked on the Royal National Orthopeadic Hospital rotation until 2013 to complete his training. Mr Donaldson went on to complete two sub-specialist fellowships: a one-year international fellowship in Toronto, Canada and a six-month fellowship at Stanmore on the joint reconstruction unit. He is currently a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at the Royal National Orthopeadic Hospital. He is on the clinical governance committee at Stanmore and sits on a number of multidisciplinary national meetings for nationwide complex case referral.

Throughout Mr Donaldson's illustrious career, he has been awarded ten academic prizes including a surgery distinction in 2000 and a pharmacology certificate of merit in 1998. Later on in his career, he was awarded the Royal College of Surgeons Preiskel Elective Prize in 2001 and the Jacques Duparc prize from the European Federation of National Associations of Orthopaedics and Traumatology in 2009. He has written numerous textbook chapters and articles in peer-reviewed journals and has co-authored a website for junior orthopaedic trainees and medical students. He is a member of a number of professional bodies including the British Orthopaedic Association and the Royal College of Surgeons.

Areas of interest

Total Knee Replacement; Total Hip Replacement; Knee Arthroscopy; Revision Knee Replacement; Revision Hip Replacement; Robotic Assisted Hip Replacement; Robotic Assisted
Knee Replacement.

Medical secretaries

• Jo Maleney
• The Wellington Hospital St John's Wood London NW8 9LE
• 020 7483 5412
• mrdonaldsonpa@hcahealthcare.co.uk