Finding the best surgeons

We live very locally to the RJAH.Both DH and myself have had operations there and could t have had better treatment if we had gone privately.

Have sent a PM lucky

Also have personal experience of the hospital in Gobowen mentioned above but not of their hip revision surgery.
They definitely used to be a centre of excellence for spinal injury and some dystrophy.

Luckygirl3 the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic hospital, Oswestry is excellent. My husband had 50 years of care from there. He had TB hip. Eventually surgeons at Oswestry replaced the hip. Because of long term damage from TB the replacement failed twice. But the surgeon persevered and managed to achieve success the third time giving my husband back his mobility. I have a friend who has been in their care almost all her life. She has scoliosis.
This hospital has a wonderful reputation. I hope you are able to find the help you need.

This is a useful link. Hope it all works out for you. www.nhs.uk/conditions/having-surgery/

My brother had a new hip at the Royal orthopedic hospital in Birmingham over 10 years ago . Even though he moved to Lincolnshire 2 years ago he still goes there for his check ups. He has always said if he needs the other doing he will have it done there.

I'd choose Oswestry if I could but going cross-border seems impossible now.

Thank you for all the suggestions. I do not want to go private unless I absolutely have to - my savings are dwindling - not because I have been living it up, but because I have had 3 private surgeries (hip, disc removal and cataracts) in order to try and get some quality of life. It appals me that there are of course millions of people who do not have that choice and have to live miserable painful lives.

I am not far from Oswestry and I am thinking that might be a better choice than my local rural one-horse hospital.

Presuming you're planning to go privately:

My advice to anyone is to check out the teaching hospitals in the nearest major city to you e.g. London, Glasgow, Oxford, Liverpool etc., and see who are orthopaedic consultants, particularly hip specialists. He/she will almost certainly have a private practice.

Further advice would be not to choose a surgeon who only operates in those private second-rate clinics.

Oswestry Orthopaedic Hospital has a good reputation, so I've been told. It is NHS and private.
Are you able to travel?

www.rjah.nhs.uk/our-services/private-patients/

Ask any contacts with the medical community. If a surgeon is good enough for their family they will be good enough for ordinary mortals.

I can certainly recommend Hugh Apthorp.