Launch
Website- Fee assured
- Awaiting verification
- Not in Open Referral network
Specialises in
- Hip
- Knee
Offers
- Face-to-face consultations
- Video and telephone consultations
About me
Simon Coleridge is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon specialising in knee replacement and hip replacement plus sports injuries to the knee. Appointed in 2005, Simon works as an NHS consultant at Derriford Hospital in Plymouth, as well as consulting and operating privately at the Nuffield Health Hospital in Plymouth.
Simon was born in Tavistock, Devon and educated in Exeter before starting his university medical degree in 1990 at Bristol University. On graduating in 1995 he spent his junior house jobs as a doctor in Bristol and then Southampton.
Senior training was undertaken in London, based at the Chelsea & Westminster Hospital, North West Thames Orthopaedic Registrars Rotation. He then went on to Victoria, Australia to complete his Senior Fellowship sponsored by Smith and Nephew, specialising in knee arthroscopy and sports injuries, as well as knee and hip replacements surgery including revisions.
During his training he also completed a Masters Degree in orthopaedic engineering, with his research thesis on knee ligament reconstruction being completed at Imperial College London.
His practice at the NHS hospital and the Plymouth Nuffield Hospital includes, sports surgery to the knee including arthroscopy (key hole surgery); complex ligament reconstruction including anterior cruciate ligament surgery and meniscal repair. He also undertakes navigated knee joint replacements; partial knee replacements and high tibial osteotomy, plus total hip replacement.
As part of his NHS practice Simon is involved in the teaching and training of junior surgeons as well medical students and physiotherapists. He also regularly updates GPs as part of their continuing education programme. In 2009 Simon also travelled to Kenya as part of the Kenya Orthopaedic Project also went in 2011 to undertake orthopaedic trauma surgery to a very poor area of Mombassa.
Areas of interest
Knee surgery; Knee replacement surgery; Hip replacement surgery; Lower limb arthroplasty:
Sports Knee surgery:
ACL reconstruction:
Knee arthroscopy:
Multi-ligament knee reconstruction:
Medical secretaries
- Sarah Eccles
- Nuffield Health Plymouth Hospital Derriford Road PLYMOUTH PL6 8BG
- 01752 767171
- 01752 761837
- sarah.eccles@nuffieldhealthpartners.com
Anaesthetists worked with
- Dr Christopher J Sweeting
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- Dr Ross Vanstone
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- Dr Jennifer Clare Hares
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- Dr Matthew Oldman
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- Dr Thomas Woolley
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- Dr Jayendiran Jayarajah
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- Dr Thomas Gale
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- Dr Daryl Thorp-Jones
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Information for healthcare professionals (Bupa patients only, last 12 months)
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W4210
Total prosthetic replacement of knee joint +/- cement +/- patella resurfacing - unilateral - (1-5)
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W7420
Autograft anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction +/- meniscectomy - (1-5)
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W8500
Multiple arthroscopic operations on knee (including meniscectomy, chondroplasty, drilling or microfracture) - unilateral - (1-5)
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W3712
Primary total hip replacement +/- cement - (1-5)
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W8150
Arthrotomy of large joint (including removal of loose body from joint) - (1-5)