Mr Hill has been a consultant orthopaedic surgeon for 18 years and specialise in sports injuries of the knee (ligament, menisci and articular cartilage damage) and the treatment of early arthritis with techniques that preserve the knee for as long as possible before requiring a knee replacement.
Mr Hill performs osteotomies, partial and total knee replacement, including custom made knees.
Specialist knee surgeon
- Partial and total knee replacement
- ACL reconstruction surgery and revision
- Arthroscopic surgery for meniscal injury and cartilage damage
- Mal-alignment surgery for patellar dislocation
- Osteotomy around the knee for early arthritis
- Knee sports injuries and arthritis
- Multi-ligament surgery for the complex injured knee
- Surgery for exercise induced leg pain
Professional positions
- Faculty of AO UK long bone trauma group
- Head of Orthopaedic Service, Frimley Park Hospital 2009-2013
- Clinical Director, Defence Medical Group SE 2013-2016
- Member of British Orthopaedic Research Society, British Association for Surgery of the Knee and British Orthopaedic Association
Peter joined the Army whilst a medical student at Cambridge University and completed his Orthopaedic training in the Armed Forces studying on the Oxford, Cambridge and London training rotations.
He completed his knee specialist training in Sydney at the world renowned North Sydney Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Centre. He was honoured with several awards during his training including the Medal for excellence in surgery and the Sir Walter Langdon-Brown Prize for his Master of Surgery (M.Chir) thesis at Cambridge and the Army’s Montefiore Memorial Prize.
In 2003 he was appointed to the Consultant Staff of Frimley Park Hospital, Surrey and has been the visiting knee surgeon to the Defence Medical Services Rehabilitation Centre, Headley Court until 2016. Peter has been involved in cartilage transplantation clinical trials and he has published papers and lectured at national and international meetings on bone infection, knee biomechanics and ACL surgery. He has done several tours of duty in military trauma hospitals in the Middle East but has now left the Army to concentrate on his knee practice and academic interests.