Mr Bernard Sylvester

Consultant Orthopaedic and Upper Limb Surgeon.

Previous posts: Pennine Trust 1979 to 2014.

Subsequent locum posts, Whiston and St. Helens Hospitals and Tameside NHS Trust General Hospital 2014 to 2020.

Extensive Clinical Experience  in Orthopaedic Trauma and Upper Limb injuries with special interests in the management of complex hand and upper limb injuries.

The surgical management of Rheumatoid Arthritis.

Peripheral Nerve Injuries (including brachial plexus injuries).

Nerve entrapment syndromes,

The surgical management of Dupuytren’s contracture.

Work related upper limb conditions.

Medico-legal experience in Personal Injury cases over the last forty years (approximately 400 new cases per annum).

50/80 clinical negligence cases per annum.

Regular instructions from Defence organisations and NHS Resolution, as well as Claimant’s Solicitors.

Frequent case conferences –

1. Joint discussions with colleagues.
2. Legal representatives.

Experience in giving Court evidence over the last 40 years.

Past Fellow British Orthopaedic Assoc; Founding Member of Northwest Soc for Surgery of the Hand; Member of the Medical Defence Union.