Mr Stephen Tai

Greeting me properly before the consultation. Checking on the move ability of my knee and asking questions to make sure I was happy and showing the X-ray pictures on screen of the replacement knee, what was done and explained the materials used. Mr Tai mentioned a follow up appointment with the special nurse in nine months time to make sure everything was still alright and with no problems. The whole experience I found very good. Meeting Mr Tai before the operation and his assistant explaining what was going to happen down to the nurses afterwards giving good care. I never had any pain the whole time due to the medication given. Mr Tai also visited just before I left the hospital asking if everything was OK.

Mr Tai was very careful on my behalf. Whilst I was in hospital he visited more than once, and over the weekend, after my hip replacement, and was very reassuring with his observations and comments. I am now pain free and regaining my mobility, and my life is altogether better. Thank you!

I had my hip replaced at the end of March and the whole care experience was second to none. The advice, encouragement and motivation from Mr Tai and his team has enabled me to make a rapid, safe and full recovery and a return to undertaking simple tasks without any pain. Thank you so much for improving the quality of life for me my and my family.

With reference to Mr Tai's letter of the 6th June may I say that my pain does not wear off as the day progresses. It becomes less so perhaps, with the help of the two paracetamol taken early in the morning, but there is persistent pain throughout the day both in the hip area and achilles tendon which very much restricts my walking. I accept that Mr Tai confirms my GP's view that the hip joint is operating satisfactorily and hope that the ultrasound scan can be done without any delay. I have, so far, not had any advice/appointment.

I am not happy with the post treatment letter dated 24/5/2017. The doctors write up is incorrect. I have a no point requested not to have an operation on my knees it was the previous Consultant Mr Kerr who informed me they did not want to operate on me because of my kidney disease and antiphospholipid syndrome. In addition it was I who asked about braces not Mr Tai it was only after me asking him to look at the way I stand and me suggesting braces that he agreed. If I had not said anything he would have just administered the intra-articular injection and unfortunately this time it has not given me any pain relief so I remain in a wheelchair. After many years of gradual deterioration I don't feel any Consultant has taken my leg problems seriously and has just put it down to my spina bifida and not addressed symptoms as an isolated condition, yet up until I was in my thirties I lived a normal and active life. And now sadly IfeeI nothing will be done.