Mr Paul Haslam
Mr Paul Haslam is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon in Doncaster, South Yorkshire who specialises in knee surgery, trauma and sports injuries.
Based At
NHS base
Doncaster and Bassetlaw NHS Foundation Trust and Sheffield Children’s Hospital
GMC Number
4092528
Clinic Timetable
Tuesday Alternate Fridays & Saturdays
Clinical interests
With over 17 years of experience as a consultant knee surgeon, Mr Paul Haslam has developed an interest and expertise in acute knee injuries and using a multidisciplinary approach has helped many sportsmen and women back to their pre-injury level of fitness.
Soft tissue Osteotomy and Arthroplasty
Total Knee Replacement
Unicompartmental Knee replacement
Sports Injury Ligament Reconstruction
Osteotomy around the knee
Meniscal repair
Arthroscopic Debridement of Bakers cyst
His knee practice includes:
Soft Tissue Osteotomy Arthroplasty As a soft tissue knee surgeon he now performs approximately 80 ACLs per year and also treats knee dislocations and PCL injuries. He has performed over 100 Unicompartmental Knee Replacements and over 1000 TKR's. Mr Haslam an interest in Patello Femoral Instability and performs approximately 20 Medial Patello femoral ligament reconstructions per year. He has developed an operation to remove Bakers cysts from the inside through key-hole surgery and so far over 20 cases have been completed with good results. He regularly attends national and international Knee and Trauma meetings in order to keep up to date with the latest developments and also regularly visits other surgeons both at home and abroad to gain knowledge and share experiences. This year Mr Haslam intends to visit surgeons in Toulouse in April and New York in May. He has been faculty for 6 years teaching Knee examination nationally at the BOA and last year gave a lecture on Knee instability at the national BOSTAA meeting. Mr Haslam is currently the Clinical Director of the Trauma and Orthopaedic Department. As a consultant orthopaedic surgeon he has taken on additional administrative responsibilities and his previous roles include being college tutor and theatre productivity lead, during this time he has led the introduction of the day case ACL service. Mr Haslam attended the first training of Orthopaedic Leaders course at the Royal College of Surgeons of England. He served as the Orthopaedic representative on the MAC committee at Park Hill Hospital. He was an educational supervisor for ST1 and ST2 trainees for 2 years and has completed the educational supervisor's course. Following that he acted as clinical tutor for the Specialist Registrars in the region. In this role he actively participated in Training committee meetings and the annual ARCP. In addition to this he was involved in the introduction and training of the Nurse Practitioners within the department and has regular elective medical students.
Professional Memberships
MBChB FRCS(Ed)Tr and Orth
Academic Background
May 2004 FCRS (Tr and Orth) October 1998 FRCS (Edinburgh) June 1996 Part I FRCS June 1994 MBChB (Grade 2) Sheffield University
Mr Haslam’s undergraduate training was at Sheffield medical school qualifying in 1994. He completed basic surgical training in Derby and Leicester moving on to Sheffield for registrar training.
During this time he developed an interest in knee surgery, presented at national and international meetings and published an undergraduate textbook.
He later undertook fellowships in Melbourne, Auckland and Sydney developing his expertise and interest in knee surgery. Mr Haslam was a member of the specialist training committee which oversees the training of future surgeons in the region. He acts as a mentor and educational supervisor for several doctors in training.
Mr Haslam has had many leadership roles within the NHS including being Clinical Director during the COVID pandemic. In 2019 Mr Haslam joined the team at Sheffield Children’s Hospital providing a specialist Paediatric Service for regional and national referrals.
Working as part of a team of 4 consultants the Sheffield paediatric knee unit has extensive experience in the treatment of congenital and traumatic knee conditions.
Based at
NHS base
Doncaster and Bassetlaw NHS Foundation Trust and Sheffield Children’s Hospital
GMC Number
4092528
Clinic Timetable
Tuesday Alternate Fridays & Saturdays
Clinical interests
With over 17 years of experience as a consultant knee surgeon, Mr Paul Haslam has developed an interest and expertise in acute knee injuries and using a multidisciplinary approach has helped many sportsmen and women back to their pre-injury level of fitness.
Soft tissue Osteotomy and Arthroplasty
Total Knee Replacement
Unicompartmental Knee replacement
Sports Injury Ligament Reconstruction
Osteotomy around the knee
Meniscal repair
Arthroscopic Debridement of Bakers cyst
His knee practice includes:
Soft Tissue Osteotomy Arthroplasty As a soft tissue knee surgeon he now performs approximately 80 ACLs per year and also treats knee dislocations and PCL injuries. He has performed over 100 Unicompartmental Knee Replacements and over 1000 TKR's. Mr Haslam an interest in Patello Femoral Instability and performs approximately 20 Medial Patello femoral ligament reconstructions per year. He has developed an operation to remove Bakers cysts from the inside through key-hole surgery and so far over 20 cases have been completed with good results. He regularly attends national and international Knee and Trauma meetings in order to keep up to date with the latest developments and also regularly visits other surgeons both at home and abroad to gain knowledge and share experiences. This year Mr Haslam intends to visit surgeons in Toulouse in April and New York in May. He has been faculty for 6 years teaching Knee examination nationally at the BOA and last year gave a lecture on Knee instability at the national BOSTAA meeting. Mr Haslam is currently the Clinical Director of the Trauma and Orthopaedic Department. As a consultant orthopaedic surgeon he has taken on additional administrative responsibilities and his previous roles include being college tutor and theatre productivity lead, during this time he has led the introduction of the day case ACL service. Mr Haslam attended the first training of Orthopaedic Leaders course at the Royal College of Surgeons of England. He served as the Orthopaedic representative on the MAC committee at Park Hill Hospital. He was an educational supervisor for ST1 and ST2 trainees for 2 years and has completed the educational supervisor's course. Following that he acted as clinical tutor for the Specialist Registrars in the region. In this role he actively participated in Training committee meetings and the annual ARCP. In addition to this he was involved in the introduction and training of the Nurse Practitioners within the department and has regular elective medical students.
Professional Memberships
MBChB FRCS(Ed)Tr and Orth
Academic Background
May 2004 FCRS (Tr and Orth) October 1998 FRCS (Edinburgh) June 1996 Part I FRCS June 1994 MBChB (Grade 2) Sheffield University
Mr Haslam’s undergraduate training was at Sheffield medical school qualifying in 1994. He completed basic surgical training in Derby and Leicester moving on to Sheffield for registrar training.
During this time he developed an interest in knee surgery, presented at national and international meetings and published an undergraduate textbook.
He later undertook fellowships in Melbourne, Auckland and Sydney developing his expertise and interest in knee surgery. Mr Haslam was a member of the specialist training committee which oversees the training of future surgeons in the region. He acts as a mentor and educational supervisor for several doctors in training.
Mr Haslam has had many leadership roles within the NHS including being Clinical Director during the COVID pandemic. In 2019 Mr Haslam joined the team at Sheffield Children’s Hospital providing a specialist Paediatric Service for regional and national referrals.
Working as part of a team of 4 consultants the Sheffield paediatric knee unit has extensive experience in the treatment of congenital and traumatic knee conditions.