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Mr Simon Jennings

Consultant in Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery MB BS, BSc, Dip. Sports Med. F.R.C.S. (Tr. & Orth.), MFSEM (UK)
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Medico-Legal Experience

Mr Jennings is an Consultant in Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery with over 18 years clinical experience. He acts in all knee and hip related cases and has a specialist interest in robotic knee and hip surgery and replacement.

He has a vast experience across broad range of orthopaedic/trauma related medico-legal issues including but not limited to; lower-limb reconstruction surgery, open reduction internal fixation (ORIF) of fractures, osteotomies, sports injuries and soft tissue injuries.

Mr Jennings is a global expert in CORI Robotic Assisted Knee and Hip Replacement. He uses robotic enabling technology for all his knee and hip replacement surgery.

Mr Jennings is instructed by Claimants in relation to clinical negligence and personal injury reports. He is happy to opine on causation, liability, breach of duty and condition and prognosis. He is experienced in working collaboratively with legal professionals and medical experts and is able to provide oral evidence in court when required.

Mr Jennings has extensive experience in cases associated with:

Knee:

  • NAVIO Robotic Knee Replacement
    – Total knee replacement
    – Partial knee replacemenT
    – Revision knee replacement
  • Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL)
  • Arthroscopy
  • Osteotomy
  • Soft tissue injury

Hip:

  • Robotic replacement
    – Total hip replacement
    – Partial hip replacement
    – Hip debridement
    – Hip injections
    – Trochaneric pain

Trauma:

  • Lower limb reconstruction
  • Post-trauma fixation (ORIF)
  • Sports injuries
  • Joint damage requiring reconstruction

Hand/Upper-limb/Musculoskeletal issues:

  • Carpal tunnel syndrome
  • Ganglion cyst
  • Trigger finger treatment (stenosing tenosynovitis)
  • Hand and wrist ligament reconstruction
  • Wrist pain
  • Amputation
  • Non freezing cold injury (NFCI) (hand)
  • Degloving
  • Trzpeziectomy
  • Distal radius fractures
  • Frozen shoulder hydrodilatation
  • Humerus
  • Clavicle
  • Elbow
  • Fracture or break

Mr Jennings availability is 2-4 weeks and has a report turnaround time of 4 – 6 weeks.

Clinical Experience

Mr Jennings is a Consultant Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgeon, with over 30 years, specialising primarily in hip and knee surgery — including robotic-assisted joint replacement, sports related injuries, arthroscopy, ligament reconstruction, revision surgery and lower-limb reconstruction.

He has a special interest in knee and hip surgery, at London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust in 2005. Mr Jennings trained in medicine at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, where he qualified in 1992 and subsequently underwent basic and higher surgical training in London.

His Orthopaedic training at the University College Hospital rotation including the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, in Stanmore. He then worked as a Fellow in Knee Surgery at the Wellington Hospital Knee Surgery Unit, where he developed his on-going interest in knee surgery.

Mr Jennings additionally has significant experience treating high level athletes in rugby and judo and managing sports injuries and trauma, which enhances his understanding of acute and chronic musculoskeletal injuries.

His aim is to provide a service which allows rapid assessment, diagnosis, and management of knee and hip conditions. He will explore all modalities of treatment and select a path to recovery that is tailored to the patient’s needs, aiming to return the patient to full function as soon as possible. In order to achieve this, Mr Jennings uses state of the art techniques to improve accuracy and outcomes.

He is also widely recognised as a pioneer in robotic-assisted joint replacement surgery (hip and knee), using systems such as CORI (and previously NAVIO), and teaches other surgeons nationally and internationally.

Publications

  • Imageless robotic-assisted revision arthroplasty from UKA to TKA : Surgical technique and case-control study compared with primary robotic TKA
  • Lars-Rene Tuecking, Peter Savov, Henning Windhagen, Simon Jennings, Dinesh Nathwani, Max Ettinger Orthopade: 2021 Dec;50(12):1018-1025. doi: 10.1007/s00132-021-04182-w. Epub 2021 Oct 29.
  • Early Economic Evaluation Demonstrates That Noncomputerized Tomography Robotic-Assisted Surgery Is Cost-Effective in Patients Undergoing Unicompartmental Knee Arthroplasty at High-Volume Orthopaedic Centres. Nherera LM, Verma S, Trueman P, Jennings S. Adv Orthop. 2020 Apr 14;2020:3460675. doi: 10.1155/2020/3460675. eCollection 2020.
  • Improved joint line and posterior offset restoration in primary total knee replacement using a robotic-assisted surgical technique: An international multi-centre retrospective analysis of matched cohorts. Popat R, Albelooshi A, Mahapatra P, Bollars P, Ettinger M, Jennings S, Van den Berg JL, Nathwani D. PLoS One. 2022 Aug 25;17(8):e0272722. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0272722. eCollection 2022.
  • Early Economic Evaluation Demonstrates That Noncomputerized Tomography Robotic-Assisted Surgery Is Cost-Effective in Patients Undergoing Unicompartmental Knee Arthroplasty at High-Volume Orthopaedic Centres Leo M. Nherera, Sanjay Verma, Paul Trueman, and Simon Jennings  Advances in Orthopedics: Volume 2020, Article ID 3460675, 8 pages; https://doi.org/10.1155/2020/3460675
  • Portal vein thrombosis after total knee replacement: a case report G. Martin, A. Rashid, HB Abdul-Jabar, S. Jennings Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery 2012;20(2):276-8
  • The Availability of Pre-Referral Imaging for Elective or Thopaedic Referrals at the First Out Patient Appointment Rashid, A; Arulananthan, A F; Magnussen, A; Inbuldeniya, A; Remedios, D; Jennings, S Bulletin of The Royal College of Surgeons of England 2013 Vol 95(1): 5-6
  • Medium term follow up of endoscopically assisted BPTB ACL reconstruction using a two-incision technique: Return to sporting activity Simon Jennings, Vijay Rasquinha, George S.E. Dowd The Knee December 2003;10(4): 329-33
  • Health and safety implications of injury in professional rugby league football. C. Gissane, J. White, K. Kerr, S. Jennings, D. Jennings Occupational Medicine 2003; 53: 512-517
  • Common Injuries of the Shoulder. S. Jennings, B. Cohen Hospital Medicine November 2002; 63 (11): 681-683
  • Physical collisions and injury rates in professional super league rugby C. Gissane, S. Jennings, D. Jennings, J. White, K. Kerr Cleveland Medical Journal 2001; 4: 147-155
  • Knee Arthroscopy Guide Article for the website Encyclomedica about arthroscopy of the knee. This article was peer reviewed and placed on the website for information to patients undergoing knee arthroscopy. November 2001
  • Body mass weight loss and dehydration in rugby league. S. Jennings, S. Robertson, D. Jennings, J. White, C. Gissane Coaching & Sports Science Journal 1999; 3 (3): 31-33
  • Ambulatory Transurethral Resection of the Prostate. SAV Holmes, S Jennings, CGA Short, GB Gillet, RS Kirby Ambulatory Surgery 1994; 2: 1-3

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Spire Bushey Hospital

Hertfordshire, Watford, WD23 1RD

The Clementine Churchill Hospital

Harrow, HA1 3RX

The London Clinic

London, W1G 6BW

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