Barry Andrews is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, specialising in knee and trauma surgery. He is an ESSKA (European Knee Society) certified expert in ACL reconstruction (Dec 2023) He is an expert in knee pain, knee arthritis, sports knee injuries including skiing, knee replacement, and in particular partial knee replacement. He recognises the importance of knee preservation surgery. He can offer expert treatment for cartilage lesions, meniscal problems, ACL , PCL, and mulitiligament knee injuries, and specialises in osteotomies around the knee. He is a specialist complex orthopaedic trauma surgeon which includes periprosthetic fractures around knee replacements.

His NHS base is at King’s College Hospital London, a teaching hospital and Major Trauma Centre. He is former Governance Lead for Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery at The Trust, and therefore has played a key role in ensuring patient safety and delivering outstanding outcomes. He has completed 2 specialist knee fellowships; at Imperial College London, where he developed the clinical application of robotic knee replacement; and in Queensland, Australia, where he underwent specialist training in sports knee surgery, osteotomy, and knee arthroplasty. He also undertook a one year fracture fellowship at the RPA hospital in Sydney, where he was trained in and performed complex orthopaedic trauma surgery. Barry is a graduate of the University of Sheffield Medical School, where he also completed early surgical training. Upon moving to London, he successfully joined the prestigious Percival Pott orthopaedic training rotation which included specialist knee and trauma training at St.Bartholomews, The Royal London, and The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Stanmore.

He joined the UK Specialist Register for Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery in 2015 Barry is committed to research, and was awarded the NIHR “Greenshoots” prize for new researchers in 2019. He was the Principal Investigator for the ACL SNNAP trial at King’s, which was published on the Lancet, and found that ACL reconstruction had better outcomes than physiotherapy alone for an unstable knee due to ACL rupture. He has 16 International Presentations, including a European prize-winning presentation for his work on partial knee replacement, and 19 National Presentations. He is a dedicated teacher and trainer: He runs the knee surgery simulation courses at King’s, and delivers lectures to the FRCS knee and trauma trainees. He trains internationally based surgeons his technique of ACL reconstruction.

He is dedicated to improving patient outcomes, through his use of the UK National Ligament Registry (UKNLR), the UK Osteotomy Registry (UKKOR), the UK Joint Registry (UKNJR), and collects his own outcome data for arthroplasty and multi-ligament knee surgery. He aims to integrate, and improve upon, the evidence-based treatment methods from International knee and trauma conferences.

Diseases, Medical Tests and Treatments

• High Tibial Osteotomy
• Distal Femoral Osteotomy
• Knee Osteotomy
• Combined ACL Reconstruction and Osteotomy
• Posterolateral Corner Knee Reconstruction
• Medial Collateral Ligament Surgery
• Paediatric ACL reconstruction
• Knee Preservation Surgery
• Sports Knee Injuries
• Knee Preservation Surgery
• Knee Realignment