Mr Cameron Hatrick

Main Speciality

Orthopaedics

Sub Speciality

Shoulder surgery
Elbow surgery
Injuries of the upper limb

Clinical interests

All aspects of arthroscopic (key hole) shoulder and elbow surgery including:

• subacromial decompression (ASAD)
• rotator cuff repair
• arthroscopic stabilisation and release for frozen shoulder
• Total shoulder replacement (anatomical and reverse) and revision shoulder replacement
• Fixation of shoulder and clavicle fractures and ACJ dislocations
• Tennis elbow

Current memberships

Royal College of Surgeons of England
British Orthopaedic Association
British Elbow and Shoulder Society (BESS)

Professional Profile

Cameron Hatrick trained at Clare College, Cambridge and St. Thomas’ Hospital, London qualifying in 1990. He underwent Basic Surgical Training on the St Bartholomew’s rotation, London and then specialised in Orthopaedics on the South East Thames (SET) Orthopaedic rotation.

He was awarded the Walter Mercer Gold Medal and Arthur Edward Burton Memorial Prize for his performance in the final FRCS (Tr & Orth) exam in 1999. The following year he was appointed as the British Orthopaedic Association ‘Young Ambassador’ to the Hong Kong Orthopaedic Association at their annual congress.

In 2000 he spent a year on Fellowship in Sydney, Australia sub-specialising in shoulder and hand surgery before taking up his post as a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton in 2001.

He has developed a successful multi-disciplinary, ‘one-stop’ shoulder clinic based in Lewes Victoria Hospital. He undertakes all aspects of shoulder surgery including arthroscopic procedures, fracture fixation and primary and revision joint replacement.

From 2009-2013 he was the Lead Orthopaedic Surgeon for BSUH NHS Trust (now University Hospitals Sussex NHS Trust). Since 2014 he has been the Medical Director of the Montefiore Hospital in Hove. He served on BESS council from 2016-2018 and is currently a member of the BESS Instructional Course Committee. He has been an examiner for the combined Royal Colleges’ FRCS (Tr & Orth) exit exam since 2017.

Teaching and Training is a particular interest of his. He is a faculty member of the Watanabe Club, which runs regular shoulder arthroscopy courses around the UK introducing surgeons to arthroscopic shoulder surgery and teaching advanced techniques to established surgeons. He has lectured at international meetings and lectures regularly at Brighton and Sussex Medical School and on the South East Thames (SET) Orthopaedic Rotation. He has set up and run an open surgical skills course for the SET rotation and, in 2005, he was appointed a Visiting Fellow at the Brighton University Faculty of Health in recognition of his contribution to post-graduate teaching.

Personal Profile

Mr Hatrick is married with three children (two of whom are now doctors) and enjoys playing tennis (unfortunately being beaten by his son!), dad's football, skiing (preferably in unusual places), hiking on the Downs / in the Lakes / Snowdonia, sailing and windsurfing (fair-weather only nowadays!).

Financial Interests/Shares

Indirectly holds a 2.08% share in Montefiore House Limited, which owns Montefiore Hospital.

Part-Time Positions in Spire

Mr Hatrick held the position of Medical Director for The Montefiore Hospital until June 30 2023, for a fee of £10,200 and within the role he provided advice to the hospital senior leadership team, had oversight for the medical committee and chaired the medical committee meetings.

Mr Hatrick held the position of Chair of the Medical Advisory Committee at The Montefiore Hospital, between July 2023 and December 2023. Their role was to provide senior professional advice to the Hospital Director and Director of Clinical Services in order to support effective medical governance and oversight. They were paid £14,000 per annum for this role and was also entitled to receive the following fees for the provision of additional ad hoc services: (i) £750 for chairing a Professional Review Committee; (ii) £500 for each annual medical appraisal undertaken for a doctor designating to Spire for the purposes of revalidation; and (iii) £200 per hour for the preparation of an independent report (up to a maximum of £500 per report) upon request by the Medical Director or Chief Medical Officer.

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