Mr Tim Bull is a full time Spine Surgeon based at the Royal Free Hospitals and Honorary Consultant at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, treating adult patients with spine related pain from neck to pelvis. Having, also, suffered acute sciatica and having undergone spinal surgery himself, he is in a better position than most, to understand patients with severe pain, as well as their fears and worries over surgery. 

Mr Bull graduated from Westminster Medical School, now part of Imperial College, London, where he also did his basic surgical training. He entered into orthopaedic training as registrar on the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital program, then on to The Cambridge Senior Registrar rotation. He was awarded the prestigious BOA National Spinal fellowship at the Centre for the Study and Surgery of the Spine, Nottingham, England. This was a combined orthopaedic and neurosurgical spinal fellowship.

He was appointed Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, with a special interest in spine surgery in 1998, at Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals, but soon became a full-time spine surgeon and Head of Orthopaedics, relinquishing that role in 2015. He established the spine unit, now based within the Royal Free London Hospitals, as a solo spine surgeon 25 years ago, building it up into a powerful multi-disciplinary team with 4 spine surgeons, as well as pain specialists, radiologists and physiotherapy clinical specialists. 

Mr Bull has a keen interest in education and training. He trains young surgeons in spinal surgery at the Royal Free London Hospitals. He has been active on the faculty of the Cambridge Orthopaedic and Royal National Orthopaedic registrar teaching programs. He is an examiner in trauma and adult pathology, FRCS Orthopaedic examination, for the four Royal Colleges of Surgeons of England, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Ireland. He has written chapters in orthopaedic and spinal text books.

He has given many invited lectures at courses and conferences, in the UK and Europe. He teaches cadaver labs in London, Madrid and Dusseldorf, training UK and European surgeons in sacro-iliac joint fusion and minimally invasive cervical decompression and fusion. 

Clinical Interests

• Spinal surgery
• Spinal and sacro-iliac pain 
• Nerve pain emanating from neck into the arm (brachalgia), 
• Lower back into the legs (sciatica).

Professional Membership

• British Association of Spine Surgeons
• European Spine Society
• British Orthopaedic Association