Mr Adrian Day

Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon – specialising in Hip and Knee Surgery

NHS Base – St George’s Hospital

Mr Adrian Day

Qualifications: MBBChir BMedBiol FRCS(Orth)

Clinical interests

His clinical interests include hip replacement, knee replacement, uni-compartmental knee arthroplasty [partial knee replacement], osteotomy around the knee and arthroscopic knee surgery [including meniscal repair, ACL and multi-ligament reconstruction], aspects of foot and ankle surgery, pelvic and acetabular reconstruction, complex trauma and deformity reconstruction [including procedures for non-union, mal-union, infection and congenital deformities].

He is trained in CT based Navigation and Robotically Assisted Hip and Knee Arthroplasty Surgery using the MAKO System and is experienced in the use of Ilizarov and Hexapod Frames, Trauma-CAD and the Nuvasive Precice Limb Lengthening and Bone Transport Nail System.

Professional profile

Mr Adrian Day completed the 2nd M.B. Pre-Clinical Medicine Examinations and gained a 2.1 intercalated B.Med.Biol. degree in Pharmacology from the University of Aberdeen in 1984. He subsequently graduated from the University of Cambridge in 1986, having completed his Medical Degree [M.B.B.Chir.], with an award of Distinction in Surgery. He passed the Primary F.R.C.S. England in 1989 and the F.R.C.S. England in 1991. He trained in Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery as a Specialist Registrar and Senior Registrar on the St. Bartholomew’s / Royal London and subsequently The Percivall Pott training program between 1991 and 1997. He won the Sir Walter Mercer medal for the F.R.C.S. Orth. final fellowship examination and undertook a Fellowship in Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery at Sunnybrook Health Science Centre in Toronto, Canada, with a special interest in Pelvic and Acetabular Reconstruction. He was appointed as a consultant Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon at St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London in 1998 and has over 20 years experience working in a Major Trauma Centre. His elective NHS practice is based at The South West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre. He has research interests in pelvic and acetabular reconstruction, complex lower limb trauma and deformity correction, multi-ligament knee reconstruction and knee arthroplasty. He has published in peer reviewed journals and is currently a reviewer for Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research.

He is a member of the British Orthopaedic Association BOA, the British Association for Surgery of the Knee BASK and regularly attends meetings of the British Limb Reconstruction Society BLRS and the British Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Society BOFAS.