Mr McKay is a Consultant Spinal Surgeon at the Priory Hospital. He is a fellowship trained specialist and his NHS adult deformity and degenerative practice is based at the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital. Mr McKay’s practice here encompasses the full range of degenerative and deformity pathologies throughout the cervical, thoracic and lumbo-sacral spine.  

Mr McKay has experience of managing an extensive array of spinal deformity pathologies from birth to adulthood and his paediatric practice is based at Birmingham Children’s Hospital (please note the Priory Hospital will only see patients above the age of 18 years old). As well as early and late onset scoliosis surgery, his practice includes caring for a sizeable neuromuscular and congenital patient cohort.

Mr McKay was awarded his CCT in Orthopaedic surgery by the Severn Deanery training programme, and subsequently developed specialist skills in spinal surgery under national and international experts at eminent institutions both in the UK and overseas. 

He added neurosurgical experience to his training by completing a fellowship at Southmead Hospital, Bristol, a major trauma centre and tertiary referral centre for 4 counties. As part of the complex neurosurgical spine team, he focused on the management of cervical spine conditions, including cranio-cervical and atlantoaxial pathology. He also had the opportunity to train in cervical disc replacement, gained exposure to intradural surgery, as well as furthering his skills in thoracolumbar degenerative surgery. 

Following this Mr McKay undertook a year-long fellowship at Westmead Children's Hospital, Sydney, one of the largest paediatric spine units in Australia. His research in this field has been presented internationally in Australia and New Zealand, as well as in the UK (please note the Priory Hospital will only see patients above the age of 18 years old).

Mr McKay spent a further year on fellowship at Middlemore Hospital in Auckland, New Zealand, which serves as the supra-regional spinal trauma hub for the North Island. Here, he furthered his experience in the management of adult deformity, degenerative pathology (particularly of the cervical spine), and emergency spinal surgery. 

• Assessment and treatment of Spinal deformity 
• Comprehensive assessment and treatment of Degenerative conditions of the cervical, thoracic and lumbosacral spine including spinal stenosis
• Spinal trauma
• Back pain management
• Intervertebral disc disease and disc herniations
• Radicular / Nerve pain

• British Association of Spinal Surgeons
• British Medical Association
• Scoliosis Research Society