Mr Ben Burston

Qualifications

MB ChB (Hons), BSc(Hons), MRCS, FRCS(Tr&Orth), Dip Med Ed

GMC number: 4702375

Practising since: 2000

Specialties

Orthopaedic surgery

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About

Mr Burston qualified from the University of Bristol in 2000 with Honours in Medicine and with a 1st class honours degree in Anatomical Sciences. He undertook his basic surgical training rotation in Oxford, before undertaking an invaluable year as an orthopaedic registrar in New Zealand. On his return Mr Burston was selected at Bristol for his 6-year higher surgical training rotation in Trauma and Orthopaedics.

Following becoming a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 2010, Mr Burston secured prestigious fellowships in Perth, Australia and at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York.

He has been a high-volume revision hip and knee consultant surgeon since 2013, at the world-renowned Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Specialist Orthopaedic Hospital, in Oswestry, and at the Nuffield Hospital in Shrewsbury. He co-chairs both the Infection and the Revision-hip Multi-Disciplinary Teams at the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital.

Mr Burston is widely published in peer review journals, with over 30 articles, mainly in the field of hip replacement surgery. He has presented at multiple international and national conferences. He is the local principal investigator in several national research trials. He was one of the senior authors of a landmark randomised control trial, run in Oswestry demonstrating the superiority of focused shockwave therapy over steroid injections for lateral hip pain.

Mr Burston enjoys teaching, serving as faculty on many national and international courses and has a Diploma in Medical Education from the University of Bristol.

In 2019 he was selected as the sole British representative for the American Hip Society prestigious Rothman-Ranawat travelling fellowship. This six-week venture took him to 10 centres of excellence across North America. Here he was able to interact and share knowledge with some of the world’s most prominent specialists in adult joint reconstruction, further developing his practice. He lectured in each site on some of his work covering prosthetic joint infection.

He currently sits on British Hip Society national advisory panel for the development of revision hip networks. He is a member of the national clinical phage network for bone and joint infection.

Fellowships

  • Rothman-Ranawat travelling fellowship, American Hip Society. North America and Canada
  • Allograft and Arthroplasty fellowship, Sir Charles Gairdner and Hollywood Hospitals, Perth, Australia
  • Lower Limb Arthroplasty fellowship, Fremantle Hospital, Perth, Australia
  • AO Trauma fellowship, the Hospital for Special Surgery, New York
  • Synthes Trauma observership, the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford.

Other interests

  • Hip osteoarthritis
  • Hip replacement
  • Complex hip replacement
  • Revision hip replacement
  • Hip inflammation
  • Lateral hip pain
  • Enhanced recovery protocol
  • Knee osteoarthritis
  • Knee replacement
  • Knee arthroscopy
  • Shockwave therapy.

Personal interests

Cricket, golf, mountain biking, hill walking, watching rugby and family time.

Treatments and tests offered by Mr Ben Burston at Nuffield Health

  • Knee replacement
  • Hip revision
  • Extracorporeal shockwave therapy (ESWT)
  • Hip replacement

Locations Mr Ben Burston works with

Related experience

Research

Outcomes of conversion total hip arthroplasty following previous hip fracture surgery
Bone Joint Open 2025 Feb 14;6(2):195-205.

The incidence and risk factors for abnormal postoperative blood tests following primary total joint replacement
Bone Joint Open 2023 Nov 24;4(11):899-905.

Clinical and cost effectiveness of single stage compared with two stage revision for hip prosthetic joint infection (INFORM): pragmatic, parallel group, open label, randomised controlled trial
BMJ 2022 Oct 31:379.

The STAR care pathway for patients with pain at 3 months after total knee replacement: a multicentre, pragmatic, randomised, controlled trial
Lancet Rheumatol. 2022 Jan 28;4(3):e188-e197.

Prospective observational cohort study on grading the severity of postoperative complications in global surgery research.
International Surgical Outcomes Study (ISOS) group.
Br J Surg. 2019 Jan;106(2):e73-e80.

Risk factors associated with revision for prosthetic joint infection after hip replacement: a prospective observational cohort study.
Lancet Infect Dis. 2018 Sep;18(9):1004-1014.

One- and two-stage surgical revision of peri-prosthetic joint infection of the hip: a pooled individual participant data analysis of 44 cohort studies.
Eur J Epidemiol. 2018 Oct;33(10):933-946.

The surgical safety checklist and patient outcomes after surgery: a prospective observational cohort study, systematic review and meta-analysis.
International Surgical Outcomes Study (ISOS) group.
Br J Anaesth. 2018 Jan;120(1):146-155.

Critical care admission following elective surgery was not associated with survival benefit: prospective analysis of data from 27 countries.
Surgical Outcomes Study (ISOS) group.
Intensive Care Med. 2017 Jul;43(7):971-979. 

Global patient outcomes after elective surgery: prospective cohort study in 27 low-, middle- and high-income countries.
International Surgical Outcomes Study group.
Br J Anaesth. 2016 Oct 31;117(5):601-609.

Re-Infection Outcomes Following One- And Two-Stage Surgical Revision of Infected Knee Prosthesis: A Systematic Review and Meta- Analysis
PLoS ONE. 2016 11(3): e0151537.

Patient-Related Risk Factors for Periprosthetic Joint Infection after Total Joint Arthroplasty: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
PLoS ONE. 2016 11(3): e0150866.

One-stage or two-stage revision surgery for prosthetic hip joint infection--the INFORM trial: a study protocol for a randomised controlled trial.
Trials. 2016 Feb 17;17:90. 

Re-Infection Outcomes following One- and Two-Stage Surgical Revision of Infected Hip Prosthesis: A Systematic Review and Meta- Analysis
PLoS ONE. 2015 10(9): e0139166. 

Re-infection outcomes following one- and two-stage surgical revision of infected hip prosthesis in unselected patients: protocol for a systematic review and an individual participant data meta-analysis.
Syst Rev. 2015 Apr 25;4:58.

Human osteoblast growth and maturation in response to metformin and the ienopyridone A769662
SAJ Pharmacy and Pharmacology 2015, 1:1.

High failure rates of the Spectron EF stem at a minimum of 10 year’s follow up.
J Arthroplasty. 2014 Oct;29(10):1956-60. 

Mid-term review of ADEPT metal-on-metal hip prosthesis. Functional, radiological and metal ion analysis
Open Journal of Orthopaedics. 2014; 4: 38-43.

Greater trochanteric pain syndrome: focused shockwave therapy versus an ultrasound guided injection: a randomised control trial
Hip Int 2023 May;33(3):490-499.

Elective surgery cancellations due to the COVID-19 pandemic: global predictive modelling to inform surgical recovery plans.
COVID Surg Collaborative.
Br J Surg. 2020 May 12:10.1002.

Clinical and radiological results of the collarless polished tapered stem at 15 years follow-up.
J Bone Joint Surg Br. 2012 Jul;94(7):889-94.

Radiographic landmarks for tunnel placement in reconstruction of the medial patellofemoral ligament.
Knee Surg Sports Traumatol Arthrosc. 2012 Dec;20(12):2380-4.

Cemented polished tapered hip replacements in patients aged 50 years or less. A minimum 10-year follow up.
J Arthroplasty. 2010; 25: 692-9.

Large diameter femoral head uncemented total hip replacement to treat fractured neck of femur.
Injury. 2009; 40: 752-5.

The economic implications of transfusion post primary total knee arthroplasty – an argument for autologous blood retransfusion?
JBJS (Br). 2009; 91B: Supp II, 356.

Collarless Polished Tapered Stem (CPT). Clinical and Radiological Follow-up at a Minimum of 10 Years.
J Bone Joint Surg (Br). 2008; 90B: 16-22.

Cement burn of the skin during hip arthroplasty
 Ann R Coll Surg Engl. 2007; 89 151-152.

 The Exeter Universal stem. A minimum 10-year review from an independent centre.
J Bone Joint Surg (Br). 2006; 88B: 1584-1590

Failure of surgery for scaphoid non-union is associated with smoking.
J Hand Surg (Br). 2006; 31B: 252-255.

Gradenigo’s syndrome: successful conservative treatment in adult and paediatric patients.
 J Laryngol Otol. 2005; 119:325-329.

Genetic influences in the aetiology of tears of the rotator cuff.
J Bone Joint Surg (Br). 2004; 86B: 696-700.

Determination of a standard site for the measurement of bone mineral density of the human calcaneus.
J Anat. 1998; 193: 449-456.

Memberships

  • Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England
  • British Hip Society
  • General Medical Council
  • Bone and Joint Infection Society
  • Oswestry Orthopaedic LLP
  • Old Oswestrians Society

Other posts held

  • Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic NHS Foundation Trust

Insurers Mr Ben Burston works with

Mr Ben Burston works with the following private medical insurance providers:

  • Aviva Health

Declaration

Mr Ben Burston does not hold a share or financial interest in this hospital, another Nuffield Health hospital or the company.

Mr Ben Burston does not have a share or financial interest in equipment used at this hospital or another Nuffield Health hospital.

Mr Ben Burston does not hold any paid advisory role(s) at this hospital or on behalf of Nuffield Health.