Mr. Will Burgoyne FRCS

Mr. Will Burgoyne is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at Epsom and St. Helier University Hospitals Trust. He graduated from Middlesex and University College Hospital, London in 1990 where he undertook the majority of his training from medical student, and all grades in between (except house officer) to consultant.

He was the Stryker Spinal Fellow at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Stanmore in 1995 and Spinal Fellow at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Oxford in 2000-01, during which time he was awarded the President's Orthopaedic Millennium prize at the Royal Society of Medicine for his work on back pain in children. He left the Middlesex Hospital, where a significant proportion of his time had been devoted to surgery for spinal deformity, in 2002, to take up his appointment at Epsom Hospital.

Both his NHS and private practice is almost exclusively dedicated to spinal problems. Spinal surgery is not necessary for the majority of neck or back complaints; many patients can be helped without resorting to such measures, and he works closely with both pain management colleagues and a range of physical therapy practitioners to try and achieve relief of symptoms without operative intervention. However, in those cases where surgery is indicated for back or neck pain, Mr. Burgoyne is an advocate of the newer non fusion techniques, including disc replacement, which a number of spinal surgeons believe may have several advantages over the more traditional spinal procedures.

A late arrival to medicine, his original degree in entomology was in 1980 from Imperial College, London. He worked as a research assistant in Clinical Pharmacology at the Royal Free Hospital, before spending two years at the BBC as a sound engineer in pursuit of a rather ill conceived notion that he was destined to be a record producer! Formerly a keen rugby player, his interest continues vicariously as one of the team doctors for the Premiership side, Saracens.

Mr. Will Burgoyne is on the Specialist Register with the General Medical Council (No. 3482371).

Clinic: Wednesday afternoon and evening, Thursday morning