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About Mr Ed Tayton
Personal Profile
Mr Edward Tayton is a fully qualified, UK trained Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgeon. He has over 20 years’ experience in Orthopaedics, and now specialises in Hip and Knee surgery. He is a high volume joint replacement specialist, and his results (available on request) are amongst the very best in the country, both in terms of outcome (patient satisfaction), and revision rate (need for further surgery).
Last year he performed a total of 390 joint replacements; 148 total hip replacements and 217 knee replacements (+25 revisions), making him one of the highest volume surgeons in the country for both hip and knee replacements.
He is dedicated to progressing joint replacement surgery and has been the driving force to acquiring robotic surgery in Reading. He has extensive experience and access to two robotic systems ( J&J Velys and Smith and Nephew's CORI). He has performed the most robotic knee joint replacements in the region.
He qualified (with honours) from the University of London in 2002 and completed his higher surgical training in the Wessex region of Southern England. Edward has been heavily involved in cutting edge research throughout his training. He has published nearly 30 research articles in top journals. He initially gained a Master of Science Degree from the University of Cardiff in 2009 for his work on a novel flexible stemmed hip implant to reduce the risk of fracture post hip replacement. He went on to take up a full-time research position at the University of Southampton where he led a £500 thousand Medical Research Council funded project assessing tissue engineered polymeric scaffolds with stem cells as a method of regenerating lost bone and cartilage. He won numerous prizes for the work including the translational research award and gauvain prize, as well as gaining a patent for a novel regenerative scaffold that he developed. He was ultimately awarded a PhD from the University of Southampton in 2014. His keen research interest remains. He is currently collecting data on the outcomes of his patients undergoing robotic knee replacement compared to the standard technique. The robotic system allows him to align and size knee replacement implants more closely matched to patients individual anatomy. He is also recruiting patients into a trial for a novel method to treat early arthritis in the knee; Genicular artery embolization in patients with osteoarthritis of the Knee (GENESIS).
He is dedicated to passing on skills to the next generation of surgeons and holds a Post Graduate Certificate in Medical Education (PGCE). He supervises numerous resident doctors and registrars, as well as offering a post completion of training Fellowship in Robotics as well as complex and revision joint replacements. After completing his standard UK training he undertook an international fellowship in Auckland, New Zealand, where he obtained specialist training in complex hip and knee surgery. During this time he gained additional knowledge and skills in computer navigated knee replacement, revision hip and knee replacement, as well as unicompartmental (half) knee replacement. On return to the UK he underwent further sub-specialist training under the guidance of Professor Robert Middleton, learning techniques for the management of complex hip problems and complex revision hip surgery.
Edward is married with a daughter and son, old cat and very bouncy fox red Labrador. He has been a keen runner, completing numerous challenges and marathons in fairly respectable times. Most of his spare time is now spent running around after his children!
Clinical Interests
His current NHS position is as a Substantive Consultant at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in lower limb (hip and knee) surgery. His first clinical qualification came in 2002.
His special clinical interests are all aspects of hip and knee surgery, revision hip replacement, revision knee replacement, partial knee replacement, robotic assisted knee replacement.
He is also a keen teacher of junior colleagues and has gained a PG cert in Medical Education from the University of Dundee.
His research interests are stem cell therapies and tissue engineering strategies for orthopaedic conditions. He is actively involved in research, constantly looking for novel techniques to improve the current management of orthopaedic conditions. He has over 20 peer reviewed publications in top journals and lectured internationally on all of the work undertaken
Professional Memberships
- Royal College of Surgeons of England
- British Orthopaedic Association
