Knees, Shoulders And Trauma



Nigel Rossiter is a Consultant Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgeon in Basingstoke, where he has been since 2002/3 and was a previous Clinical Director of Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgery for Hampshire Hospitals.
He was previously in the British Army from 1985.
He trained in London, Londonderry, Belfast, Gosport, Plymouth and Oxford. He has done fellowship training in London, Salisbury, Oxford, USA & Russia.
His principal areas of clinical practice are in Orthopaedic Trauma and Trauma related problems, all aspects of knee surgery and soft tissue shoulder surgery.
Nigel is Chair of the Trustees and Medical Director of the Primary Trauma Care Foundation charity and a founder and former trustee of his hosital charity: Basingstoke Hoima Partnership for Health (with a hospital in Uganda)
He sits on the Global Alliance for Care of the Injured (GACI) committee at the World Health Organisation (WHO)
He is on the Permanent Council of the G4 Alliance advocating for safe and timely access to quality Surgical, Obstetric, Trauma and Anaesthetic care globally particularly in Low Middle Income Countries
He is on the advisory board to Open Medical
He is the senior medical adviser to Rams Rugby
He is a co-founder, Director and Chair of Incision Indemnity - insuring >200 surgeons
He is a member of the International Consensus Meeting panel for global Orthopaedic VTE prevention guidance and has been a member of the 2018 NICE committee on VTE
He reviews clinical studies for the National Institute of Health Research and a number of major journals (including the Bone and Joint Journal, and, Injury)
He regularly performs careers advisory seminars for school leavers / sixth form
He is regularly asked to speak publicly - largely on Trauma and global Trauma issues
He is a founding Fellow of the International Orthopaedic Trauma Association
He is a Past (and Founding) President of the Orthopaedic Trauma Society
He has been the Clinical Lead for Trauma and Major Incidents at Hampshire Hospitals
He led the setting up of the Trauma Networks for South Central area of England and the Wessex Trauma Network
He has chaired AO Principles and Advances Orthopaedic Trauma education in UK & Ireland over an 11 year period and been faculty for 20 years teaching on these, the Current Concepts course and Tips for Trainers and Chairs in the UK & internationally
He teaches regularly on Training the Trainers courses
He has been a Basic Surgical Skills tutor for the Royal College of Surgeons
He helped write the original STEP course for the Royal College of Surgeons.
Nigel is listed in Who's Who - from whom he has recieved an Hippocrates award for excellence in the field of medicine, has been voted Trainer of the Year for the Wessex region twice and has been a finalist twice in the NHS Shine Awards as Inspiring Educator of the Year. He has published and presented widely including addressing the UN General Assembly in 2020, the WHO & ICRC on superfluous and unnecessary injuries in conflict.
He is married with four rugby playing and skiing sons.

