Benjamin Bloch

Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Nottingham University Hospitals

 

Mr Benjamin Bloch is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon with a special interest in hip and knee surgery.

He studied medicine at Imperial College School of Medicine in London and qualified in 2003, going on to complete his orthopaedic training in the East Midlands Deanery in Leicester and Northamptonshire.  He then completed a further 18 months subspecialist training in hip and knee surgery in Nottingham and Coventry.

Benjamin Bloch has been working as an NHS and private Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon in Nottingham since 2016.  He performs a large number of hip and knee replacements – over 250 per year.  He has an interest in revision hip and knee replacements and the treatment of the young patient with an arthritic knee.  He can offer treatments suitable for the younger patient including cartilage regeneration techniques, knee osteotomy, unicompartmental knee replacement and patell-femoral joint replacements where clinically appropriate.

He is actively involved in research into hip and knee surgery.  He has published in respected orthopaedic journals and presented work at international meetings.  He also peer-reviews articles for the Bone and Joint Journal.

He is an active member of the British Orthopaedic Association (BOA).

Benjamin Bloch is one of the Consultants responsible for running the East Midlands Specialist Orthopaedic Network meeting and maintains a keen interest in monitoring the outcomes of surgery. This experience ensures that he stays up to date and practices evidence-based medicine – particularly important when choosing implants and when offering new treatments.

With his background and interests, Benjamin Bloch is a keen and able educator.  He regularly gives lectures to medical students, doctors in training and allied health professionals.  He is keen to share best, evidence-based practice and work with innovative technologies to advance orthopaedic care.

Tim Board

Consultant Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgeon, Wrightington

Tim works at the Centre for Hip Surgery, Wrightington Hospital where he is lead for Lower Limb Research. He is also a Visiting Professor in Orthopaedics at the University of Leeds, Honorary Senior Lecturer at University of Manchester and Honorary Professor at Salford University. His clinical interest is complex primary and revision hip arthroplasty and hip arthroscopy. He has developed a collaboration with Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital, performing THR in children.

He has a strong interest in research and undertook an MD at the University of Manchester investigating bone grafting techniques in revision hip surgery. He has presented at many national and international meetings and has published more than 140 papers and contributed to many textbooks. His main fields of research interest include improving the outcomes of primary and revision hip replacement, hip impingement modelling, hip arthroscopy and paediatric hip replacement. He holds a number of research grants from NIHR, EPSRC and industry. As BHS member at large he suggested the formation of a BHS research committee to help drive the hip research agenda. As the founding chair of that committee, he has steered the development of the Revision Hip Complexity Classification and more recently is chairing the James Lind Alliance/BHS priority setting partnership on problematic and revision hip replacements. Tim is Greater Manchester NIHR lead for Orthopaedics. Outside of work he is a keen fell runner, cyclist and sailor.