Mr Gordon Matthews

Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon for Bucks Healthcare NHS Trust 1993 to 2014, with busy NHS practice including trauma and elective orthopaedics shared with twelve Consultant colleagues working at Wycombe and Stoke Mandeville Hospitals. Since retiring from the NHS, I continue in practice at the BMI Chiltern hospital where I see both private and NHS patients. I have an interest in lower limb joint replacement and arthroscopic surgery, and also in trauma reconstruction surgery. My career started as a British Petroleum Company scholar at Clare College Cambridge, reading Control Engineering. I graduated in 1970. I then worked for BP at Sunbury Research Centre and subsequently at BP head office in Moorgate, London and in the North Sea on Forties Field oil production platforms. In 1975, I decided that surgery would offer greater challenges and satisfaction ! I was accepted to train in medicine at St Bartholomew’s Hospital and qualified in 1980. I received initial surgical training at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, Charing Cross Hospital and Singleton & Morriston Hospitals, Swansea, and specialist training in Orthopaedics & Trauma at the London Hospital, Queen’s Medical Centre,Nottingham and St George’s Hospital London. I was Senior lecturer in orthopaedics at Charing Cross and Westminster Hospitals, before completing my training with a Fellowship in knee & arthroscopic surgery in Melbourne, Australia. I have published on a variety of orthopaedic topics and also developed a novel surgical intramedullary nail for fixation of fractures involving the lower end of the thigh bone and knee, in partnership with Biomet UK Ltd. I am also an active member of the British Medical Association (BMA), as past Chair of Bucks Division and also past chair of the Oxford Region Consultants and Specialists Committee (RCSC) and a representative on the national Central Consultants and Specialists Committee (CCSC). I have served as a member of Council of the British Orthopaedic Association 2013/2015

At the Chiltern Hospital I practice elective orthopaedic surgery. I have a particular interest in lower limb joint replacement including total hip replacement THR, total knee replacement TKR and partial uni-compartmental knee replacement (Oxford Uni ) . I practice revision THR and TKR surgery. I also practice knee arthroscopic surgery, including meniscal repair and anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction.