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Specialises in

• Hip

• Knee

Offers

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

About me

I have worked as a Consultant in Trauma and adult reconstructive surgery for more than a decade. My subspecialty interests include primary and revision hip replacement surgery , knee replacement surgery and knee arthroscopy (key hole surgery of the knee) I have a special interest in revision for instability (dislocations) of the hip replacements and fractures around joint replacements. I am the co-founder of the Liverpool Metastatic Bone Service (LiMBS). I am a passionate proponent of aggressive treatment of cancer that spreads to the bone to allow the patients to stay mobile and pain free. I perform massive endoprosthetic replacement to reconstruct the bone loss after cancer excision.

I am the current Orthopaedic Oncology lead for the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen Hospitals. I was the Trauma clinical director for a period of two years. I am a member of Royal College of Surgeons Examination committee for the FRCS Orth.
In addition to my clinical work, I am an honorary lecturer at the University of Liverpool.
I am the co-founder of a novel service started in Liverpool to treat patients with cancer spread to the bone. We treat patients from the whole of the Merseyside and Cheshire region. I have been instrumental in presenting this service nationally and regionally to raise its profile. I have undertaken courses and various teaching sessions regionally to disseminate the latest methods of treatment of metastatic disease.
I have a keen interest in teaching and I do this at various levels including medical students, FY trainees, Senior Orthopaedic trainees, physiotherapists and scrub nurses. I am invited faculty for a number of FRCS exam courses in the Merseyside and at Wrightington. I teach the extended scope physiotherapists on the HEAL course at University of Liverpool; I am a reviewer for Strategies in Limb Reconstruction journal

Areas of interest

Hip surgery; knee surgery

Medical secretaries

• Clare bear Van de Waal
• Spire Liverpool Hospital Greenbank Road Liverpool L18 1HQ
• 07917 523999
• Clare.Vandewaal@spirehealthcare.com