Mr Alun Yewlett

Mr Yewlett is the elbow lead for the ULHT NHS Trust and holds an honorary contract with Leeds teaching hospitals NHS trust to perform complex elbow work there as part of GIRFT best practice. He has an appreciation of he demands of athletes from his own playing days as a international rugby player in his youth and has successfully treated a number of international athletes from a variety of disciplines. His undergraduate training was in Imperial College, London and he graduated in 2004 with a first class honours degree. In addition to his surgical qualifications he was awarded the outstanding performance award for his MSc in trauma surgery - his dissertation was on terrible triad injuries of the elbow (this is a complex dislocation of the elbow joint which is associated with fractures of the surrounding bones). He completed his higher surgical training on the Welsh Rotation in 2014. However, in order to gain further experience he was awarded three of the country's most prestigious competitively appointed shoulder and elbow fellowships in Exeter, Stockport and SWLEOC in London which equipped him with a wide exposure to a number of techniques to deal with the full spectrum of shoulder and elbow disorders. He is a high volume Shoulder and Elbow arthroplasty surgeon and routinely collects PROMS data for all of his elective cases and regularly audits his own practice and outcomes against national standards. He has won a number of national awards for his work from the British Shoulder and Elbow subspecialist society (BESS) including the Leadership and Management award in 2015 and the national pump priming grant award in 2018. He was delighted to be recognised as one of the top performing doctors in the UK when he was awarded a certificate of excellence award in 2018 and 2019 from iWantGreatCare.

Open and arthroscopic (keyhole) shoulder and elbow surgery Sports Upper Limb Trauma Shoulder and Elbow Joint Replacement (Primary and Revision) One stop shoulder ultrasound / diagnostic arthroscopic clinics using mi eye Regenerative medicine