
Mr Paul Latimer
Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon
Circle Bath Hospital
01761 422 222
Professional profile
Paul Latimer is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at Circle Bath Hospital.
Paul trained at Bristol, qualified in 1996 and joined Yeovil from Derriford Hospital in Plymouth where he worked as a locum consultant, having just returned from a fellowship in Australia. His special interests are revision hip and knee replacement and trauma.
Paul Latimer specialises in hip and knee surgery. His particular interests are in total hip replacement and revision of total hip replacement, along with the treatment of femoroacetabular impingement with hip arthroscopy. He undertakes partial and full knee replacement surgery too.
Paul attended the University of Bristol before completing his surgical training locally in the South West, obtaining the MRCS in 2000 and FRCS (TR and ORTH) in 2006.
He completed Fellowship training in revision hip and knee surgery in Perth, Western Australia in 2007, obtaining CCT in 2008.
Paul Latimer has completed roles such as Clinical Director for Orthopaedics and Chair of the Senior Staff Committee at Yeovil District Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. He enjoys teaching and training and obtained a postgraduate certificate in medical education in 2010. He is an educational supervisor and was the Orthopaedic Surgical tutor for three years. Mr Latimer is a keen researcher, contributing to the recent FASHiON trial, which was a large multi-centre randomised controlled trial comparing hip arthroscopy and personalised hip therapy.
Paul Latimer has worked as a substantive NHS Consultant at Yeovil District Hospital NHS Foundation Trust since 2008 and has worked at Circle Bath since 2014.
He routinely captures data for all his patients on the National Joint Registry, this helps promote best practice through the publication of National results. Please feel free to review Mr Latimer’s most recent data set at the National Joint Registry website.
First year of qualification
1996
Hip replacement
Hip resurfacing
Complex hip fractures
Primary/revision hip replacement implants (including hip resurfacing, uncemented and cemented hip replacements)
Femoroacetabular impingement with hip arthroscopy
Professional memberships
BMA (British Medical Association)
BOA (British Orthopaedic Association)
Royal College of Surgeons.
Meet Paul Latimer, in the film below, where he discusses when a hip injection is appropriate and what's involved in this treatment.
Our Private Patient Advisors are available to answer your questions about becoming a patient on 01761422222 from 8am to 7pm during the week and from 9am to 1pm on Saturday.
Treatments offered
- Hip arthroscopy
- Hip replacement surgery
- Hip replacement revision surgery
- Knee arthroplasty
- Knee pain diagnosis & treatment
- Knee replacement surgery (partial)
- Kneecap stabilisation surgery
- Knee cartilage surgery
- Meniscal repair surgery
- Knee bursitis
- Hip dislocation
- Joint pain
- Femoro-acetabular impingement
- Knee tendonitis
- Labral tear in the hip