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Mr Partington is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon working in Northumbria NHS Trust and Private Practice since 1998. He graduated from Newcastle upon Tyne Medical School, and trained in Newcastle based Registrar rotation and London, Ontario, Canada, sub- specialising in Hip and Knee surgery. He has particular interest in hip and knee joint replacement and revision (re-do joint replacement) surgery, knee arthroscopy and hip arthroscopy and arthroscopic hip impingement surgery. Mr Partington performs approximately 250 primary hip and knee replacements, 50 revision joint replacements and 40 hip arthroscopies a year. He also organises Royal College of Surgeons Hip and Knee Replacement courses, and has taught recently in the UK, Germany and Italy on the subject of joint replacement. He is currently an examiner for the FRCS(Trauma and Orthopaedics) examination and a member of the British Hip Society.