Sean O'Leary : Trauma & orthopaedic surgery

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Overview

Specialises in

Knee

About me

Sean is a high volume, Fellowship trained knee surgeon with 20 years consultant experience. He undertakes key hole, reconstructive and realignment surgery as well as partial and total joint replacements.

He has an extensive sporting background and understands the various challenges associated with sports knee injuries.

Please refer to his website for more details

Areas of interest

Arthroscopic knee surgery; Knee meniscal surgery; Total and partial knee joint replacements; Knee osteotomy (realignment surgery); Knee ligament reconstructions (ACL); Sports knee surgery

Medical secretaries

Rowina Slater
Circle Hospital RS Practice Management 100 Drake Way Reading RG2 0NE
07497 425380
secretary@seanolearyknee.co.uk

Anaesthetists worked with

Sean O'Leary has worked with Dr Warren Fisher at the following hospitals:
- Circle Reading Hospital ()
Sean O'Leary has worked with Dr Patrick C Dill-Russell at the following hospitals:
- Circle Reading Hospital ()

Sean O'Leary has worked with Dr James Hardwick at the following hospitals:
- Circle Reading Hospital ()

About me

Current NHS consultant posts held

Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust
London Road
Reading
RG1 5AN

Research interests

Most of Sean's recent research interests have centred on the outcome of ACL reconstruction and helping to establish the UK National Ligament Registry. He has written several editorials and presentations on this subject.

In addition he has also studied the outcomes and performance of partial knee replacement and his work highlights the potential benefits of this procedure.

He was been the Clinical Lead in a project to redesign the instrumentation for a long established partial knee replacement (Link, St Georg). Sean also held regular international instructional courses for surgeons in Hamburg.

Personal interests

Sean is a keen sportsman having been a schoolboy athlete and a National league basketball player before a first class rugby career. His main club was Wasps but he also played with Bath and Saracens. In addition he represented Middlesex, London Division, Barbarians and England B team.

More recently he has reverted to Indoor Rowing and cycling.

Publications

Most recent publications:

1. 10 year survival rate of an all-polyethylene tibia medial unicompartmental knee replacement: The Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust experience
Poletti F, Aweid B, Naskar R, Bhamber N, O'Leary S
European J of Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology 2025 35 (293)
2. The impact of concomitant meniscal surgery on the clinical outcome of ACL reconstruction: results from the UK National Ligament Registry
Gabr A, O'Leary et al
Bone and Joint Open 2024 5(11) 1003-1012

3. Ten year results from the UK National Ligament Registry: Patient characteristics and factors predicting non-responders for completion of outcome scores.
Gabr, Fontalis, Robinson, Hage, O'Leary, Spalding, Haddad
Knee Surgery Sports Traumatology Arthroscopy 2024 32(4);811-820

4. Rehabilitation versus surgical reconstruction for non-acute anterior Cruciate ligament (ACL SNNAP): a pragmatic randomised controlled trial
Prof D Beard et al
The Lancet 2022 400, Issue 10352;605-15

5. Book Chapter: The Meniscus
Joint Preservation in the Adult Knee.
L Jones & S O'Leary (Dec 2016).
Publisher: Springer International

6. ACL reconstruction and the National Ligament Registry: What will it tell us?
BJJ News. Issue 10, August 2016

7. Editorial:The UK National Ligament Registry
The Knee 2013. Vol 6: 365-6

Courses offered to GPs

Sean is very happy to present to GPs and physiotherapists about any aspects of knee surgery. Please contact his secretary (Rowina Slater) to make arrangements.

About my work

My outcomes

My qualifications & training

Qualifications

Orthopaedic Specialist training North West Thames training rotation 1999
Medical Degree Cambridge University 1986
Basic medical training St Mary's Hospital 1989

Additional training

Knee Fellowship Olympic Medical Centre, Melbourne 2000
Knee Fellowhip Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney 2000

GMC registration

Reference number 3328004

Professional bodies (positions held - last 3 yrs)

Steering Group UK National Ligament Registry 2025
Steering Group International ACL outcomes collaboration group 2025

Details of entry to specialist register

FRCS (Tr & Orth) , 1997

Affiliations / memberships

Fellow British Association for Surgery of the Knee

Fellow of the British Orthopaedic Association

Member of the European Society of Sports traumatology, Knee surgery and Arthroscopy

My private practice

Information for healthcare professionals (Bupa patients only, last 12 months)

Procedures completed

W8500
Multiple arthroscopic operations on knee (including meniscectomy, chondroplasty, drilling or microfracture) - unilateral - ()

Circle Reading Hospital ()
W4210
Total prosthetic replacement of knee joint +/- cement +/- patella resurfacing - unilateral - ()

Circle Reading Hospital ()
W5200
Unicompartmental knee replacement - unilateral - ()

Circle Reading Hospital ()
W7410
Multiple ligament reconstruction of knee - ()

Circle Reading Hospital ()
W9040
Injection(s) +/- aspiration, into joint, cyst, bursa - unilateral - ()

Circle Reading Hospital ()
W8230
Arthroscopic meniscal repair - ()

Circle Reading Hospital ()
T4302
Open adhesiolysis (including biopsy) - ()

Circle Reading Hospital ()
W7420
Autograft anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction without lateral tendonesis +/- meniscectomy - ()

Circle Reading Hospital ()
W7580
Open surgical stabilisation of patella, including soft tissue/tendon transfer or release, +/- application of cast (adult) - ()

Circle Reading Hospital ()
W1080
Osteotomy of long bone, +/- fixation (including graft) - ()

Circle Reading Hospital ()
W8520
Arthroscopy of knee (including examination under anaesthetic, washout and biopsy) (as sole procedure) - ()

Circle Reading Hospital ()
W5201
Unicompartmental Knee Replacement - bilateral - ()

Circle Reading Hospital ()
W7451
2 stage revision anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction - first stage - ()

Circle Reading Hospital ()
W2830
Removal of internal fixation from bone / joint, excluding K-wires +/- image guidance - ()

Circle Reading Hospital ()
W5800
Conversion of a unicompartmental knee replacement to a total replacement of knee joint - ()

Circle Reading Hospital ()

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Sean O'Leary

Seanolearyknee

Trauma & orthopaedic surgery 03328004

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About me

Areas of interest

Medical secretaries

Anaesthetists worked with

Current NHS consultant posts held

Research interests

Personal interests

Publications

Courses offered to GPs

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Outcomes (checked and approved by medical professional body)

Outcomes (self-reported)

Qualifications

Additional training

GMC registration

Professional bodies (positions held - last 3 yrs)

Details of entry to specialist register

Affiliations / memberships

Practice hours

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