Rebecca Shirley is a Consultant Plastic, Reconstructive and Hand Surgeon at Buckinghamshire NHS Trust, with over 15 years’ experience in the specialty. She specialises in hand surgery and complex reconstructive procedures, and serves as Governance Lead at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, ensuring high-quality, safe care for all patients.

Rebecca graduated from University College London in 2002 (MB BS) with an intercalated BSc in Anatomy, and her research on three-dimensional visualisation of soft tissue was published in The Lancet. She became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons (FRCS Plast) in 2012.

Her training included placements at leading UK centres including St George’s, Queen Victoria Hospital, Oxford University Hospitals, Nottingham University Hospitals, Derby, and Leicester Royal Infirmary. She has also completed international fellowships in microsurgery, hand surgery, and limb reconstruction in India, Finland, and the US, and has undertaken specialist clinical visits to centres in Europe, the US, and Asia. She has also contributed to humanitarian work with the Working Hands charity in Nepal.

At Stoke Mandeville, she has been instrumental in establishing a complex wound MDT, improving patient care through coordinated multidisciplinary collaboration. She runs a national microsurgery course, presents “Stoke Mandeville Webinars” for an international audience, and actively mentors and teaches trainees, including coaching candidates for national recruitment. Rebecca regularly speaks at national and international conferences, is an advocate of joint consultant operating for complex cases, and continues to drive education, research, and innovation in plastic surgery.

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• The Hand and Wrist: Nerve compressions, treatment for inflammatory and osteoarthritis including joint replacements and fusions
• Depatterns disease
• Trauma
• Tendon transfers/ reconstruction
• Musicians hand
• Surgery for tetraplegia.
• General Plastic Surgery
• Malignant and benign skin lesion excision; Scar revision; soft tissue trauma, pressure ulcer reconstruction.

• The Royal College of Surgeons of England
• British Medical Association
• British Association for Performing Arts Medicine
• British Society of Surgery of the Hand
• Committee member of education and training committee BSSH from 2021
• Founding member of STASH (Students and Trainees Association for Surgery of the Hand)
• Council Member BSSH from 2022