Mr Richard J Sinnerton FRCS (Orth)

Richard J Sinnerton is our shoulder and elbow specialist. He trained as a doctor at St. Thomas' Hospital Medical School and as a specialist surgeon at St. Mary's Hospital in London. In 1996 he was selected to spend a year in Nice, France working as Fellow to Professor Boileau and it was this relationship that inspired him to become a shoulder specialist. On returning to the UK he was appointed as a consultant at Ashford/St. Peters Hospitals where he set up and ran the very successful Upper Limb Service. He now works fully in the independent sector.

Mr Sinnerton treats all conditions affecting the shoulder and elbow whether caused accidentaly, from sports injuries, or due to arthritis or congenital problems. He uses the best of the new technological advances to help his patients in particular arthroscopic (keyhole) operations that minimise scarring and allow a faster recovery.

He has developed a national and international reputation in the use of 'reverse geometry shoulder replacement' to treat severely arthritic shoulders. He recently published an article on shoulder replacement in the leading orthopaedic journal and in the past year has been invited to lecture on and demonstrate this procedure at prestigious meetings in the US and France.

Although he is no longer employed by the NHS, Mr Sinnerton sees NHS patients via the new Choose and Book system. This means you can go and see your GP wherever you live in the UK and ask them to book you in to see him at one of his shoulder clinics which are held in the following private hospitals: The Princess Margaret Hospital in Windsor, The Nuffield Hospital in Woking and The Ramsay Hospital in Ashtead. The waiting times are very short and, if surgery is needed, it will be done in the same clean and luxurious hospitals within 6 weeks. (please remind your GP that  the clinics are not on the system under Mr Sinnerton’s name but as ‘the shoulder clinic’ at each of those venues.)