Mr Paul Haslam

With over 17 years' experience as a consultant knee surgeon, Mr Paul Haslam has developed an interest and expertise in acute knee injuries and using a multidisciplinary approach has helped many sports men and women back to their pre-injury level of fitness. Mr Haslam has developed his interest in Paediatric knee surgery and joined the team at Sheffield Children’s Hospital in 2019 seeing regional and national referrals for congenital and traumatic knee disorders. He has been faculty member on a number of national and international meeting aimed at instructing other surgeons in knee surgery. He keeps up to date with latest developments in the world of knee surgery by attending meetings and has visited renowned knee specialists in the UK, USA, Germany and France. Mr Haslam is a knee specialist and suggests all patients insist they see a specialist! Mr Haslam’s undergraduate training was at Sheffield medical school qualifying in 1994. He completed basic surgical training in Derby and Leicester moving on to Sheffield for registrar training. During this time he developed an interest in knee surgery, presented at national and international meetings and published an undergraduate textbook. He later undertook fellowships in Melbourne, Auckland and Sydney developing his expertise and interest in knee surgery. Mr Haslam was a member of the specialist training committee which oversees the training of future surgeons in the region. He acts as a mentor and educational supervisor for several doctors in training. Mr Haslam has taken on many leadership roles within the NHS and lead the department as Clinical Director through the Covid pandemic . Mr Haslam is interested in knee injuries and sees over 500 patients per year with knee injuries, developing this interest over the 16 years he has been a consultant. He performs approximately 400 arthroscopic procedures every year including regular ACL reconstructions, Medial patello-femoral ligament reconstructions and meniscal repair surgery. Mr Haslam has developed a successful operation to treat Bakers cysts by key hole surgery. Most surgeons do not treat Cysts at the back of the knee or do so using big incisions. Mr Haslam is the only surgeon in the region who treats Bakers Cysts regularly with key hole surgery.

Knee surgery Paediatric knee  Sports knee injuries Cruciate ligament tears  Meniscal tears Knee osteotomy Partial knee replacement Bakers Cyst