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Mr Andrew James is a Consultant Orthopaedic Spinal Surgeon based in Milton Keynes. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. 

He currently works for the NHS at Milton Keynes University Hospital (previously also at Stoke Mandeville Hospital in Buckinghamshire). He works from the Saxon Clinic where Outpatient Consultations and Surgery is undertaken.

He was Clinical Director of the MSK Department Orthopaedics MKUH from 2016-2023.

Mr James completed his medical degree at the University of London in 1998, followed by his basic surgical training in Northampton. He later completed his professional training in Orthopaedics and Neurosurgery in Oxford and Atkinson Morley. 

He completed his Specialist Registrar Training in Trauma and Orthopaedic surgery in the Oxford Deanery, gaining Specialist recognition via the CCT route.  Followed by a years'  AO Spine Fellowship and then a further years' Fellowship at Leeds Spinal Unit. Mr James also holds a Master's degree in Orthopaedic Surgery from the University of Warwick.

Mr James has clinic interests in all areas of adult spinal surgery, excluding paediatrics and spinal tumours. He sees patients with back pain, neck pain with arm pain, spinal compression and disc injuries. He offers a range of treatments including the following:

• Lumbar laminectomy
• Lumbar microdiscectomy
• Lumbar microsurgery
• Lumbar spinal decompression surgery
• Spinal fusion surgery
• Steroid injection therapy

He is active in research and his research interest is in disc replacement technologies and spinal surgery outcomes. In addition to his research work, he also currently supervises trainees, fellows and medical students as part of their educational mentorship.