Mr Andrew McAndrew

Mr. Mc Andrew qualified from St. George's Hospital Medical School, Tooting. He underwent Basic Surgical training in Yorkshire and undertook two years full time research in Sheffield. This was submitted as a thesis titled 'the Radiographic Classification of Callotasis' and an MD was awarded in 2004. Mr. Mc Andrew underwent Higher Surgical training in Trauma & Orthopaedics in the Wessex Region. He spent one year as the Ilizarov Fellow in Chertsey, Surrey undergoing sub-specialist training in trauma and limb reconstruction. He was appointed to the Royal Berkshire Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in July 2007 as a Locum Consultant Trauma Surgeon and took up his substantive post in November 2007. He brought the Ilizarov system to Reading and set up a limb reconstruction service undertaking complex trauma and deformity correction. He is the lead trauma surgeon with an interest predominantly in the lower limb. He is the Director of Trauma in the Trust and was part of the successful bid to have the Royal Berkshire Hospital designated a Trauma Unit. Since then he has continued to chair the Trauma Committee, (a multidisciplinary group that works to improve the care of trauma patients in Reading). He is the Orthopaedic representative of the Royal Berkshire Hospital to the Thames Valley Trauma Networks. He was the Clinical Director for the Trauma and Orthopaedic service at the Royal Berkshire Hospital from January 2014 until 31 January 2017. Research Interests: He is the chair of the Thames Valley and South Midlands CRN (Comprehensive Research Network) Trauma and Emergency Care and the Musculoskeletal Specialty Groups. These posts means that he is involved at a national level in the management of multi-centre trials that deal with the treatment of trauma and elective orthopaedic patients. He has been the principal investigator (PI) for 23 nihr (national institute for health research) clinical trials in orthopaedic trauma, five are in recruitment and another is in set up as of October 2021. In January 2017 he was given the nihr musculoskeletal trauma trials award of the Best Principal Investigator. He was involved in the James Lind Alliance priority setting for research into fragility fractures of the lower limb. He is the chair of a Trial Steering Committee and Data Monitoring Committee of a trial investigating the surgical dressings used in knee replacements. He is the orthopaedic medical advisor to Rams Rugby.

Fractures operative and non-operative treatment; Complex trauma; Soft tissue injuries; Knee Arthroscopy; Foot surgery; Non-union of fractures; Deformity correction Procedures offered: