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Experience & qualifications

Specialist spinal practice, academic work and surgical leadership underpin an evidence-based approach to expert opinion.

Honorary Professor Tony Bateman

Professor Bateman is a double fellowship trained Consultant Spine Surgeon with more than 20 years of clinical, research and leadership experience. His clinical practice covers degenerative, traumatic and metastatic disease of the whole spine, from occiput to sacrum.

He completed spinal fellowships at Frimley Park Hospital and the University of Toronto Combined Spinal Fellowship Programme, including Sunnybrook Hospital, St Michael’s Hospital and Toronto Western Hospital.

He was appointed Consultant Spine Surgeon at Royal Derby Spinal Centre in 2017. Current appointments include Consultant Spine Surgeon in independent practice and Honorary Professor at Nottingham Trent University.

Cardiff University Bond Solon (CUBS) Expert Witness Certificate, 2025.

GMC register entry · 6105984 ↗

Honorary Professor Tony Bateman, Consultant Spine Surgeon
Honorary Professor Tony BatemanConsultant Spine Surgeon · GMC 6105984

Professional qualifications

QualificationInstitution / awarding bodyYear
FRCS, Trauma & OrthopaedicsRoyal College of Surgeons of England2013
Diploma of Sports and Exercise MedicineRoyal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh2010
Membership of the Royal College of SurgeonsRoyal College of Surgeons of England2007
Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of SurgeryImperial College School of Medicine2004
Expert Witness CertificateCardiff University / Bond Solon2025

Quality, risk & governance

Previous roles at University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust include Clinical Director for Quality, Risk and Governance (Surgery), Guardian of Safe Working Hours and Consultant Spine Surgeon.

Additional training includes the BOA Clinical Leaders Programme (2018/19), Patient Safety Incident Response Framework training (2023), medical appraiser training (2023) and Good Clinical Practice (2022).

Professional contribution

  • British Orthopaedic Association
  • British Association of Spine Surgeons: executive committee member from 2024 to 2026.
  • Society for Back Pain Research: executive committee member, 2017–2022, 2025 to present

Published research includes cervical myelopathy, cervical transforaminal epidural injections, chronic spinal pain, cauda equina syndrome and spinal fellowship training.

Research publications ↗

Selected publications

  • Cervical transforaminal epidural steroid injections for radicular pain.
    Borton ZM, Oakley BJ, Clamp JA, Birch NC, Bateman AH. Bone & Joint Journal. 2022;104-B(5):567–574.
  • Hospitalisation for degenerative cervical myelopathy in England: insights from NHS Hospital Episode Statistics 2012 to 2019.
    Goacher E et al., including Bateman AH. Acta Neurochirurgica. 2022;164:1535–1541.
  • Intracranial Mimics of Cauda Equina Syndrome: Heads or Tails?
    Kumaria A et al., including Bateman A. World Neurosurgery. 2020;144:e643–e647.

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