Each of the four specialists at the Surrey Foot and Ankle Clinic is a fully qualified doctor and orthopaedic surgeon (Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons). We have specially trained to apply these skills to care of the foot and ankle and this represents practically all of our non-emergency work. From medical school to consultant practice, this training takes ten to twelve years. Since we specialise in the same discipline, we can support each other’s work and share our expertise, much to the advantage of our patients.
Our busy NHS practices involve foot and ankle orthopaedic surgical care plus treatment of injuries and fractures via the hospitals’ 24 hour on-call rotas. Orthopaedic surgeons, unlike non-medically qualified podiatric surgeons, are fully qualified trauma surgeons so we have generic skills and experience in treatment of injuries to all the body’s bones and joints. This greatly enhances our ability to deal with difficult non-injury cases. Many medical conditions can manifest first in the foot. A good understanding of any patient’s general health is, in our view, so important that the clinician in charge of surgery to the bones, joints and tendons of the foot should be a qualified doctor.
All of the consultants in our Clinic are active in developing and teaching orthopaedic foot and ankle surgery. We regularly attend both national and international conferences, contributing directly to many. Our patients benefit from the very latest thinking and recognised techniques.
MR ALEX WEE
Alex joined Frimley Park Hospital in August 2006 as a consultant orthopaedic surgeon specializing in foot and ankle surgery.
He completed his specialist orthopaedic training in East Anglia. After which he undertook a subspecialty fellowship in foot and ankle surgery at Addenbrookes’ Hospital Cambridge and The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital Stanmore. As a traveling fellow he also trained in foot surgery centres in Minneapolis, USA. He graduated from Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School, London in 1993.
He has taught on the Oxbridge forefoot reconstruction, and the Stanmore foot and ankle courses; trained orthopaedic registrars on the East Anglia, Stanmore, and South West Thames training programs, and has given lectures on various aspects of foot and ankle surgery. Alex has presented research at the British and American Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle societies. He is a member of the British Orthopaedic Association, and British Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Society.