Mr Baker is an NHS Consultant at the Avon Orthopaedic Centre, Southmead Hospital. He trained in both the UK (Bristol) and North America (Vancouver) perfecting joint replacement surgery - specialising in both hip and knee joint replacement surgery. He is the only surgeon in Bristol who specialises in the revision of BOTH hip and knee replacements (when they go wrong), He is a high volume joint replacement surgeon performing over 400 joint replacements a year, significantly more than the national average for both hip and knee replacements. Mr Baker works as a team with his anaesthetist Dr Steve Tolchard in both the NHS and private sector. In more than a decade of practising together they have performed in excess of 4000 joint replacements. Together they provided expert care pre, intra and post-operatively.
Additional specialties and sub-specialties
Trauma and orthopaedic surgery - Hip & Knee
Special clinical interests
Hip replacement Robot assisted hip replacement (MAKO) Hip resurfacing Revision HIp replacement surgery Total Knee replacement Robot assisted total knee replacement (MAKO) Unicompartmental knee replacement Revision knee replacement surgery
Information about Mr Richard Baker and your procedure.
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7 or fewer private admissions for Knee replacement (primary). To protect patient anonymity, we cannot provide information on low numbers. This consultant also had 90 NHS admissions for this procedure.
Anaesthesia fees are the cost of the care you receive from the
anaesthetist during a surgical procedure. These fees are separate
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Aggregated data collected from anaesthetists over the last 2 years,
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Pre-assessment fees
SOUTH WEST
NATIONAL
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£213
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£165 - £251
Based on data collected from 238 anaesthetists nationally
Package fees
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Based on data collected from 384 anaesthetists nationally
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