Mr Rahul Patel, Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon
Mr Rahul Patel
Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon
Mr Rahul Patel
Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon MBBS MRCS(Eng) MD FRCS(Tr & Orth)
Mr Patel is a recommended Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon
Areas of expertise
- ACL (anterior cruciate ligament) injury
- Total knee replacement
- Hip preservation surgery
- Knee preservation surgery
- MRI scan (magnetic resonance imaging scan)
Recommendations for Mr Patel
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Recommended by:
❝Mr Patel is an outstanding Orthopaedic Surgeon and i would thoroughly recommend his expert advice. He has excellent communcation skills and has made my patients feel completely at ease prior to surgery. I have found him to be the consummate professional and he would be my first choice knee surgeon in London.❞
byMr Sam Wilde, Physiotherapist
❝I've known Mr Rahul Patel for a long time. He has a very good clinical opinion and he is a very sensible surgeon. He works very well with physiotherapy to help his patients.❞
byMr Dan Wood, Consultant Urologist
❝Rahul is an excellent clinician and surgeon. It is a pleasure to work with him and patients that have seen him are always impressed with the care they receive.❞
byMs Jennifer Touzel, Physiotherapist
❝Mr Rahul Patel is really good with lower limb, particularly knee, issues and great on communicating with physiotherapists regarding ongoing rehabilitation.❞
byDr Michael Burdon, Sport & Exercise Medicine Specialist
❝Mr Rahul Patel is a very collaborative surgeon, very communicative, skilled and knowledgeable.❞
❝Mr Patel is an outstanding Orthopaedic Surgeon and i would thoroughly recommend his expert advice. He has excellent communcation skills and has made my patients feel completely at ease prior to surgery. I have found him to be the consummate professional and he would be my first choice knee surgeon in London.❞
❝A very credible orthopaedic specilaist who has a lovely manner with people. He is very measured in his approach.❞
byMr Dan Wood, Consultant Urologist
❝Rahul is an excellent clinician and surgeon. It is a pleasure to work with him and patients that have seen him are always impressed with the care they receive.❞
byDr Michael Burdon, Sport & Exercise Medicine Specialist
❝Mr Rahul Patel is a very collaborative surgeon, very communicative, skilled and knowledgeable.❞
byMr Sam Wilde, Physiotherapist
❝I've known Mr Rahul Patel for a long time. He has a very good clinical opinion and he is a very sensible surgeon. He works very well with physiotherapy to help his patients.❞
byMs Jennifer Touzel, Physiotherapist
❝Mr Rahul Patel is really good with lower limb, particularly knee, issues and great on communicating with physiotherapists regarding ongoing rehabilitation.❞
by Mr Bryan Herry, Physiotherapist
❝Mr Rahul Patel is very knowledgeable, especially around knee patients, and has very successful outcomes with the majority of his patients. He has a good working relationship with physiotherapists.❞
by Mr Vinay Parmar, Physiotherapist
❝Mr Rahul Patel is highly specialised in dealing with various sporting, non-sporting knee injuries and highly experienced surgeon.❞
Make an appointment
Address
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The Wellington Hospital
The Knee Unit, Wellington Place, London, NW8 9LE
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Telephone or video consultation
Available for patients
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
250 Euston Road, London, Greater London, NW1 2PG
About Mr Rahul Patel
GMC number: 4533261
Year qualified: 1998
Place of primary qualification: University of London
Mr Rahul Patel is a Consultant in Trauma & Orthopaedics at the University College Hospital, London. He is actively involved in the training of higher surgical trainees on the London orthopaedic rotations and is also a co-developer and course tutor on the MSc in Sports Medicine, Exercise & Health at University College London. He is an Honorary Associate Professor of UCL. He is also the medical director of myrecovery, a digital health platform for the surgical patient.
Rahul Patel qualified from The Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine. He trained in surgery at various London teaching hospitals before undertaking a formal two-year research period culminating in a higher degree from the University of London. His specialist orthopaedic training was on the Middlesex/University College Hospital, London rotation. Mr Patel then undertook subspecialist fellowship training in reconstructive arthroscopy and sports orthopaedic surgery at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada and at the Steadman-Hawkins Clinic, Vail, USA.
He is a member of the International Society of Arthroscopy, Knee Surgery and Orthopaedic Sports Medicine (ISAKOS), the European Society of Sports Traumatology, Knee Surgery and Arthroscopy (ESSKA) and the International Cartilage Repair Society (ICRS). Mr Patel’s main orthopaedic and research interests are sports injuries of the hip and knee (e.g. meniscus, ACL, hip impingement), joint replacement, meniscus preservation and transplantation, patellofemoral instability, chondral regeneration and digital health in orthopaedics.
Mr Patel would like to clarify and emphasise that he does NOT charge outside of the Bupa fee Schedule for procedures.
Areas of expertise
- ACL (anterior cruciate ligament) injury
- ACL reconstruction
- Adductor repair
- Arthritis (knee)
- Arthroscopy
- Bone marrow tests & biopsies
- Cartilage preservation and regeneration
- Cartilage surgery (knee)
- Chondral grafting
- Digital health
- Fat pad impingement
- Femoroacetabular impingement
- Fracture (broken bone)
- Hip arthroscopy
- Hip impingement
- Hip labral repair
- Hip preservation surgery
- Joint preservation
- Knee arthroscopy
- Knee cyst
- Knee ligament repair
- Knee pain
- Knee preservation surgery
- Knee replacement
- Labral tear
- Medial collateral ligament
- Meniscal augmentation
- Meniscal preservation
- Meniscal repair
- Meniscal transplant
- Minimally invasive knee surgery
- MRI scan (magnetic resonance imaging scan)
- Multiligament injury
- Multiligament reconstruction
- Osteoarthritis
- Osteotomy around the knee
- Partial knee replacement
- Patella (kneecap) dislocation
- Patella realignment
- Patellofemoral instability
- Patellofemoral joint replacement
- Patellofemoral stabilisation
- PCL reconstruction
- Posterolateral corner reconstruction
- Proximal hamstring repair
- Revision surgery
- Robotic-assisted knee surgery
- Robotic-assisted partial knee replacement
- Sports injuries
- Tendon repair
- The young knee
- Tibial tubercle transfer
- Torn meniscus (cartilage)
- Total knee replacement
Professional memberships
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