Mr Andrew Phillips

I began my medical training in Cambridge University and then trained as a surgeon in South London. Before becoming a consultant, I did fellowships in hand and wrist surgery (Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead) and trauma in the University of Pisa, Italy. My specialist interests were trauma and upper limb surgery. My first consultant appointment was in 2001 in Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Woolwich as a general orthopaedic surgeon. I then moved to Kings College Hospital in 2003 where I progressively specialised in trauma and then hand and wrist surgery. I left the NHS in 2015 and now I only work in the private sector. I continue to specialise in hand and wrist surgery with a large proportion of my patients now being musicians. I was very fortunate to inherit much of the hard work previously done by Mr John White and Mr Ian Winspur. Both of these surgeons had spent many years setting up specialist practices for looking after musicians. As was their experience (and the experience of other hand surgeons in this field), surgical intervention is much less likely to be required in this subspecialty. Whilst many hand surgeons are happy to advise against surgery and suggest other treatments for about 80% of all their new patients, I find that for musicians in my practice this is closer to 90%.

Musicians hands