Mr Anthony Gough

After completing my medical training at Cardiff University, I spent my first two years rotating round hospitals in South Wales. I then worked abroad for several years in Sydney, Australia before returning to the UK to begin my surgical training. My trauma and orthopaedic specialist training was based in Devon & Cornwall gaining hand surgery experience at all the hospitals I worked in. At the end of my training, I undertook a nationally appointed and highly competitive Advanced Interface Fellowship at the University of Birmingham Hospitals, the largest ortho-plastic hand unit in the United Kingdom. After a year in Birmingham, I then secured a second fellowship at the University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff to learn arthroscopic wrist techniques and advanced wrist fracture surgery. During my fellowship training I completed the British Diploma in Hand Surgery run by the British Society for Surgery of the Hand.  I have an interest in Medical Leadership and was awarded a bursary by the British Orthopaedic Trainees Association to attend the British Orthopaedic Association Future Leaders Programme. The fellowship lasted 12 months, exploring medical leadership techniques and experiences from national experts. I have also completed a Postgraduate Master’s degree in Sports Medicine from the University of Bath. This helped combine my extracurricular passion for sport and previous high level playing with my professional interest in sports injuries.  As a dual fellowship trained hand and wrist surgeon, I treat all conditions that effect the hand and wrist up to the elbow. This can involve directed therapy with hand therapy colleagues, injections or surgery. 

I am a Trauma & Orthopaedic consultant with a special interest in hand, wrist and peripheral nerve surgery. Working full-time as an NHS consultant at Musgrove Park Hospital in Taunton, my practice covers musculoskeletal and nerve problems relating to the hand, wrist and elbow. Common operations that I perform include but are not limited to; carpal tunnel decompression, surgery for hand or wrist arthritis including joint replacements, Dupuytren's contracture procedures (fasiectomy, skin grafts and minimally invasive needle fasciotomy) and cubital tunnel release.  Procedures are performed under local anaesthetic, regional anaesthetic or general anaesthetic – whatever is the safest and most appropriate for the surgery to be performed and achieve the best pain relief or functional result from surgery.