Nigel presently has the following posts / responsibilities:

- President of the Combined Services Orthopaedic Society

- a volunteer for Life+Limb (the Primary Trauma Care Foundation) charity for which he is developing their digital training delivery (having previously been Chair, Medical Director, Trustee and Consultant Adviser)

- Founder and former trustee of his hospital charity: Basingstoke Hoima Partnership for Health (with a hospital in Uganda)

- Faculty Advisory Board for the Faculty of Remote Rural & Humanitarian Surgery at the Royal College of Surgeon of Edinburgh (FRRHH @ RCSEd)

- Advises the Wessex Global Health Network

- Member of the Surgical Educators Learners Forum (SELF) designing surgical education for low resource global areas

- Chair of the Scientific Advisory Committee to Open Medical

- Co-founder, Director and a past Chair of Incision Indemnity - insuring surgeons in clinical private practice in the UK

- Consults for DocHQ

- Mentor for young Consultant / Attending surgeons of the International Orthopaedic Trauma Association

- Reviews clinical studies for the National Institute of Health Research and a number of major journals (including the Bone and Joint Journal, and, Injury)

- Careers advisory seminars for school leavers / sixth form

- Public speaking - largely on Trauma and global Trauma issues

- Trustee of the Hope Cove Independent Lifeboat (the lifeboat for the village he grew up in that also once saved his life)

- previously sat on the Global Alliance for Care of the Injured (GACI) committee at the World Health Organisation (WHO).

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Nigel was previously in the British Army from 1985. He was a Consultant Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgeon in Basingstoke 2003-2023 where he was a previous Clinical Director of Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgery for Hampshire Hospitals.

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 were in Orthopaedic Trauma and Trauma related problems, all aspects of knee surgery and soft tissue shoulder surgery.

 

Nigel's other achievements include:

- Founding Fellow of the International Orthopaedic Trauma Association

- Past (and Founding) President of the Orthopaedic Trauma Society

- Clinical Lead for Trauma and Major Incidents at Hampshire Hospitals

- Led the setting up of the Trauma Networks for South Central area of England and the Wessex Trauma Network

- Was a Faculty Coach and previously 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

- Teaches regularly on Training the Trainers courses

- Basic Surgical Skills tutor for the Royal College of Surgeons

- Coauthor of the the original STEP course for the Royal College of Surgeons

- Senior medical adviser to Rams Rugby

- Previously sat on the Permanent Council of the G4 Alliance advocating for safe and timely access to quality Surgical, Obstetric, Trauma and Anaesthetic care globally

- was a co-author of the SIrUS project (on superfluous and unnecessary injuries in conflict) for the ICRC, advises EXTRACTT and has authored ballistic and blast injury care training modules for the WHO.

 

Nigel is an honorary visiting Professor of Orthopaedic Trauma, global healthcare and surgical education at the Southwestern University Dallas, was awarded Honorary Fellowship of the British Orthopaedic Association (the highest award in British Trauma & Orthopaedics) in 2023.  He 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.  

 

He is married with four rugby playing and skiing sons.