Jose Blanco

Mr Jose A Blanco is an award-winning consultant orthopaedic surgeon specialising in hip and knee procedures. He holds numerous private positions alongside his NHS work and is a dedicated advocate for education and training. Holding the position of Surgical Tutor for NorthWest Anglia NHS Trust, he is a clinical and educational supervisor for nurse specialists and orthopaedic registrars. He is also committed to improving standards across orthopaedics and was appointed to the British Society of Children’s Orthopaedic Surgery Guidelines Committee. Mr Blanco has been widely published in medical journals and textbooks, and his work has been recognised and celebrated, as demonstrated by many first-place awards. Patients describe him as warm, calm and professional.

• 2020 - Present: Consultant Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgeon, Woodland Hospital, Kettering
• 2020 - Present: Consultant Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgeon, Fitzwilliam Hospital, Peterborough
• 2017 - Present: Consultant Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgeon, North West Anglia NHS Trust
• 2017 - Present: Surgical Tutor NorthWest Anglia NHS Trust
• 2021 - Present: Medicolegal Expert

• PGAMedEd, Postgraduate qualification in Medical Education
• ChM (Ed), Master of Surgery from Royal College of Surgeons Edinburgh, 2015
• FRCS (Trauma & Orth), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons (Intercollegiate) in Orthopaedics
• MRCS (Eng), Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England
• MBBS, St Georges Hospital Medical School, 2005

• First Prize: Trial Business Plan for Capital Funding Project: Primary and Secondary care integration in Diabetes Care, Leadership Course, Kettering, 2016
• First Prize: East Midlands LETB Virtual Learning Environment Development Day
• Development of the VLE for Postgraduate Orthopaedic Trainees, 2013
• Founding Fellow of the Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management, 2012
• Royal Society of Medicine Runner-Up in Geoffrey Chisholm Communication Prize, 2008
• St Georges Hospital Medical School: Lady Youde Prize for Geriatric Medicine, 2004

• General Medical Council (GMC number): 6122748
• British Orthopaedic Association (BOA)
• British Society Children’s Orthopaedic Surgery (BSCOS)
• British Trauma Society (BTS)
• British Medical Association (BMA)
• Fellow of The Royal College Of Surgeons of England, FRCS
• Societe Internationale de Chirurgie Orthopedique et de Traumatologie (SICOT)
• Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management
• Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy