Barry Andrews

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, awarded in December 2023. His clinical practice focuses on knee pain, knee arthritis, sports-related knee injuries, knee replacement surgery, and partial knee replacement, with an emphasis on knee preservation. He treats cartilage lesions, meniscal conditions, ACL, PCL and multi-ligament knee injuries, and specialises in osteotomies around the knee. He also practises as a specialist complex orthopaedic trauma surgeon, including the management of periprosthetic fractures around knee replacements.

His NHS base is King’s College Hospital London, a teaching hospital and Major Trauma Centre, where he previously served as Governance Lead for Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery. He completed two specialist knee fellowships, one at Imperial College London focusing on robotic knee replacement, and another in Queensland, Australia, with specialist training in sports knee surgery, osteotomy, and knee arthroplasty. He also undertook a one-year fracture fellowship at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney, gaining experience in complex orthopaedic trauma surgery. Mr Andrews graduated from the University of Sheffield Medical School and completed early surgical training there before joining the Percival Pott orthopaedic rotation in London, which included specialist knee and trauma training at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, The Royal London Hospital, and the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital in Stanmore. He joined the UK Specialist Register for Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery in 2015.

Mr Andrews is research active and was awarded the NIHR “Greenshoots” prize for new researchers in 2019. He was Principal Investigator for the ACL SNNAP trial at King’s College Hospital, published in The Lancet, which demonstrated improved outcomes with ACL reconstruction compared with physiotherapy alone for unstable knees following ACL rupture. He has delivered 16 international presentations, including a European prize-winning presentation on partial knee replacement, and 19 national presentations. He is involved in surgical education, running knee surgery simulation courses at King’s, lecturing to FRCS knee and trauma trainees, and teaching internationally on ACL reconstruction techniques. He contributes to national outcome monitoring through the UK National Ligament Registry, UK Osteotomy Registry, and UK National Joint Registry, and also collects his own outcome data for arthroplasty and multi-ligament knee surgery.