Paul Parker qualified as a Doctor from Queen’s University Belfast in 1985. After overseas service in Germany and Central America, he trained as an orthopaedic surgeon in London, Edinburgh and the United States of America. He became a cconsultant orthopaedic surgeon in 1998. He has worked at the Friarage Hospital in Northallerton since 1999. He has worked overseas in Bosnia, Kosovo, Sierra Leone, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iraq. He is one of the British Army’s most senior orthopaedic surgeons, responsible for military entry and employment standards, ministerial appeals and other matters of doctrine. The town of Catterick Garrison with its 15,000 military inhabitants provides the basis of his military sports medicine practice. Hambleton and Richmondshire District provides the basis for his hip and knee replacement practice.