Mr Godfrey Charnley
Mr Godfrey Charnley is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon in Essex specialising in hip and knee replacement surgery.
Based At
NHS base
Mid Essex Trust
GMC Number
2839381
Clinic Timetable
Clinical interests
Mr Charnley has over 25 years' consultant experience of major hip and knee replacement surgery, especially revision surgery. His surgical practice encompasses both the young and the old using various technologies available. His practice also includes knee arthroscopy. In view of his expertise he is frequently called upon by lawyers and hospital trusts to give an expert opinion on joint replacement surgery issues.
Professional Memberships
Mr Charnley is a member of:
The European Hip Society and British Hip Society
The British Orthopaedic Study Group
The French Orthopaedic Association
Academic Background
Mr Charnley qualified in 1983 from St Thomas’ Hospital in London. He subsequently received training as a Registrar in London and as a Senior Registrar in Bristol. In 2007, he achieved the status of Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Complimenting his UK training, he had Fellowship training in knee surgery in Basel, Switzerland in 1992, trauma and revision joint replacement surgery in Paris, France and a scholarship in pelvic fracture surgery in Seattle, USA, both in 1995.
His qualifications are: MBBS FRCS FRCS Ed. FRCS Orth. FHEA.
Prior to relocating to Essex he was both an honorary Senior Lecturer and a Consultant at Derriford Hospital and The Plymouth Post Graduate Medical School between 1995 and 2002.
For several decades Mr Charnley has been involved in surgical education. He has trained young surgeons in the techniques of both cemented and cementless hip replacement surgery, having introduced modern hip prosthesis designs to Mid-Essex since his arrival at Broomfield Hospital.
In addition to this, he has also lectured the region’s osteopaths, chiropractors, physiotherapists and rheumatologists about advances in joint replacement surgery.
For over 25-years he has presented original clinical research in the United Kingdom, but also elsewhere, including Sweden, Italy, Eire, Portugal, Austria and France.
Mr Charnley has given three lectures in French, two in Paris and one in Toulouse. In 2005 he was awarded a prize for the best presentation in Toulouse and in Paris he has lectured on hip replacement after hip fracture and the use of short stems in hip replacement surgery in the United Kingdom.
In 2007 he gave instructional lectures in Johannesburg to the South African Orthopaedic Association on the use of trabecular metal acetabular components in primary and revision hip surgery.
Mr Charnley has previously been on the Orthopaedic Committee of the Royal Society of Medicine, a Regional Clinical Coordinator for the National Joint Registry and for 11-years he was an examiner for the FRCS Orthopaedic Diploma for the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
In 2023 Mr Charnley lectured the National Chiropractic Association about hip replacement surgery, particularly following Covid and with current NHS waiting list difficulties.
Away from the operating table, Mr Charnley loves sport, including horse riding, cricket, lawn tennis and real tennis. He enjoys travel and pre-Raphaelite art.
Based at
NHS base
Mid Essex Trust
GMC Number
2839381
Clinic Timetable
Clinical interests
Mr Charnley has over 25 years' consultant experience of major hip and knee replacement surgery, especially revision surgery. His surgical practice encompasses both the young and the old using various technologies available. His practice also includes knee arthroscopy. In view of his expertise he is frequently called upon by lawyers and hospital trusts to give an expert opinion on joint replacement surgery issues.
Professional Memberships
Mr Charnley is a member of:
The European Hip Society and British Hip Society
The British Orthopaedic Study Group
The French Orthopaedic Association
Academic Background
Mr Charnley qualified in 1983 from St Thomas’ Hospital in London. He subsequently received training as a Registrar in London and as a Senior Registrar in Bristol. In 2007, he achieved the status of Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Complimenting his UK training, he had Fellowship training in knee surgery in Basel, Switzerland in 1992, trauma and revision joint replacement surgery in Paris, France and a scholarship in pelvic fracture surgery in Seattle, USA, both in 1995.
His qualifications are: MBBS FRCS FRCS Ed. FRCS Orth. FHEA.
Prior to relocating to Essex he was both an honorary Senior Lecturer and a Consultant at Derriford Hospital and The Plymouth Post Graduate Medical School between 1995 and 2002.
For several decades Mr Charnley has been involved in surgical education. He has trained young surgeons in the techniques of both cemented and cementless hip replacement surgery, having introduced modern hip prosthesis designs to Mid-Essex since his arrival at Broomfield Hospital.
In addition to this, he has also lectured the region’s osteopaths, chiropractors, physiotherapists and rheumatologists about advances in joint replacement surgery.
For over 25-years he has presented original clinical research in the United Kingdom, but also elsewhere, including Sweden, Italy, Eire, Portugal, Austria and France.
Mr Charnley has given three lectures in French, two in Paris and one in Toulouse. In 2005 he was awarded a prize for the best presentation in Toulouse and in Paris he has lectured on hip replacement after hip fracture and the use of short stems in hip replacement surgery in the United Kingdom.
In 2007 he gave instructional lectures in Johannesburg to the South African Orthopaedic Association on the use of trabecular metal acetabular components in primary and revision hip surgery.
Mr Charnley has previously been on the Orthopaedic Committee of the Royal Society of Medicine, a Regional Clinical Coordinator for the National Joint Registry and for 11-years he was an examiner for the FRCS Orthopaedic Diploma for the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
In 2023 Mr Charnley lectured the National Chiropractic Association about hip replacement surgery, particularly following Covid and with current NHS waiting list difficulties.
Away from the operating table, Mr Charnley loves sport, including horse riding, cricket, lawn tennis and real tennis. He enjoys travel and pre-Raphaelite art.