Ben Bloch is a highly-experienced consultant orthopaedic surgeon specialising in hip and knee conditions and procedures. Alongside his NHS roles and private practice, he is widely published in respected orthopaedic journals and presented his work at international meetings. He also peer-reviews articles for the Bone and Joint Journal. Ben is the lead knee consultant responsible for running the East Midlands Specialist Orthopaedic Network meeting and maintains a keen interest in monitoring the outcomes of surgery. He also enjoys teaching and training and regularly gives lectures to medical students, doctors in training and allied health professionals. Patients describe him as kind, thoughtful and professional.

• 2016 - Present: Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (City Hospital)
• 2019 - Present: Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon Castle Orthopaedic Partners
• 2017 - Present: Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon Spire Nottingham Hospital
• 2017 - Present: Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon BMI The Park Hospital May

• Hip and Knee Arthroplasty Fellow Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, 2014
• Senior Knee Fellow University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire, 2015
• FRCS (Tr & Orth) Royal College of Surgeons of England, 2012
• MRCS Royal College of Surgeons of England, 2007
• MB BS University of London, 2003
• BSc (Hons) University of London, 2001

• General Medical Council (GMC number): 6077046
• Royal College of Surgeons of England
• British Orthopaedic Association (BOA)
• British Hip Society (BHS)
• British Association for Surgery of the Knee (BASK)

• High ten-year implant survivorship and low patellofemoral complication rate for S-ROM rotating-hinge implants in revision total knee arthroplasty. Bone Jt Open 2022
• Surgical Approaches in Primary Total Hip Arthroplasty: Systematic Review of Randomised Controlled Trials. J Hip Surg 2022
• Should patient age thresholds dictate fixation strategy in total hip arthroplasty? Bone Joint J 2022
• Three Orthopaedic Operations, over 1,000 Randomised Controlled Trials, in over 100,000 Patients: What Have we Learnt? Bone Joint Res 2022
• High Survivorship of Short Cemented Femoral Stems in Condylar Revision Total Knee Arthroplasty without Significant Metaphyseal Bone Loss: Minimum 5-year Follow-up. J Arthroplasty 2021
• Long-term Outcomes of Single- and Two-Stage Revision Total Knee Arthroplasty for Chronic Periprosthetic Joint Infections: Changing Clinical Practice in a Specialist Centre (292 Knees). Bone Joint J 2021
• Distal Femoral Replacements for Acute Comminuted Periprosthetic Knee Fractures: Satisfactory Clinical Outcomes at Medium-Term Follow-up. Arthroplasty Today 2021
• Role of Metaphyseal Sleeves in Revision Total Knee Arthroplasty: Rationale, Indications and Long-term Outcomes. J Orthopaedics 2020
• How I do it – second stage revision knee arthroplasty. Knee 2020
• Clinical networking in revision knee replacement. Knee 2020
• Metaphyseal Sleeves in Revision Total Knee Arthroplasty Provide Reliable Fixation and Excellent Medium to Long-Term Implant Survivorship. J Arthroplasty 2020
• The sagittal radius of curvature, trochlear design and ultra congruent insert in total knee arthroplasty. EFORT Open Reviews 2019
• A new Total Knee Arthroplasty design has significantly better early implant survivorship than a previous gold-standard design – a retrospective analysis of 1000 cases. J Knee Surg 2020
• The role of patella resurfacing in total knee arthroplasty. Bone Joint 360 2018;7(5):2-7
• Two-stage revision surgery for infected total knee replacements: reasonable function and high success rate with the use of primary knee replacement implants as temporary spacers. Eur J Orth Surg Traumatol 2018
• Hip and Knee arthroplasty in a temporary operating theatre is associated with a significant increase in deep periprosthetic infection. Bone Joint J 2017
• Early experiences using a Specialist Orthopaedic Network: the future of revision arthroplasty? RCS Bulletin 2017