Prof Richard Field

Practising at

Spire St Anthony's Hospital

Treatment information

Some of the principal treatments carried out by Prof Richard Field at Spire include:

Orthopaedics - hip and knee

• Hip arthroscopy
• Hip resurfacing
• Hip replacement surgery
• Knee replacement
• Knee arthroscopy surgery
• Knee ligament surgery

Other treatments

Professional profile

Professor Richard Field qualified from the Westminster Hospital, London in 1980. After house jobs at St Stephen's Hospital in Chelsea, Senior House Officer posts at University College Hospital and the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, he completed a PhD thesis at Cambridge University. His Specialist Orthopaedic training was undertaken at the Whittington and Westminster Hospitals in London, Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge, Colchester and Black Notley Hospitals in Essex and the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne. In 1994, Richard Field was appointed to St Helier Hospital, Carshalton, as a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, with a special interest in hip surgery. Since 2004, his NHS practice has been based at the South West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre where he is the Director of Research. He is one of the UK's most experienced practitioners in arthroscopic hip surgery, muscle sparing hip replacement, hip resurfacing and complex hip replacement. He undertakes between approximately 500 hip operations per year.

Besides being a pioneer of hip arthroscopy in the UK, Prof Field is one of the UK’s most experienced hip resurfacing surgeons and continues to undertake this procedure on active young men. Since 2008, Prof Field has regularly used the muscle sparing, direct anterior approach for his routine hip replacement surgery and is a regular faculty member on national and international training courses for surgeons learning this technique. In 2011, Prof Field undertook the world’s first GMK Sphere knee replacement and has been one of the key surgeons in the development of this new generation of knee replacement. Prof Field remains keen to involve as many of his patients, as possible, in long term outcome studies to properly monitor their progress and better understand the results of our surgery.

Private contact details

Qualification and professional memberships

Professional memberships

Member of the British Medical Association
Member of the British Hip Society
Member of the International Society for Hip Arthroscopy
Trustee of SWLEOC Orthopaedic Research Foundation
Member of the Sutton and District Medical Society

Current NHS posts

St Helier Hospital & Epsom Hospitals