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• Gloucestershire Knee Clinic

Current NHS consultant posts held

Consultant Trauma and Orthopaedic Knee Surgeon
Based at:
Cheltenham General - Elective orthopaedic unit
Gloucestershire Royal Hospital - Trauma Unit
Both parts of Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS FT

Employed 2014 - Present

Research interests

Partial Knee Replacement (Daycase) - Mr Kempshall is pioneering daycase (home the same day) partial knee replacement.

https://www.nuffieldhealth.com/article/partial-knee-replacement-in-the-morning-home-for-dinner

Patient specific osteotomy - Mr Kempshall leads in the region on computer guided osteotomy to slow arthritis progression.

Resurfacing total knee replacement - Mr Kempshall is a leading surgeon in the use of the latest design of knee replacement.

Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction - From previous research into ACL reconstruction, Mr Kempshall believes in the preservation and repair of the meniscus.

Personal interests

Peter Kempshall is married to Emma and together they have 2 young children. Emma is also medical and works as a Consultant Haematologist in Cardiff.
Mr Kempshall likes canoeing on the river wye, training in the gym, cooking and learning new skills.

Awards received

Mr Kempshall has received Awards for clinical excellence for his work on improving the care of hip fracture patients in Gloucestershire Hospitals. He has also been awarded for his work developing a daycase partial knee replacement pathway.

He won the presidential medial from the Welsh Orthopaedic Surgeons Society for research into total knee replacements.

Publications

• Outcome of meniscal allograft transplantation related to articular cartilage status: advanced chondral damage should not be a contraindication. Kempshall PJ, Parkinson B, Spalding T. Knee surgery and sports traumatology. Accepted for publication Jan 2015.


• Meniscal integrity predicts laxity of anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction. Robb C, Kempshall P, Getgood A, Standell H, Sprowson A, Thompson P, Spalding T, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy 2015; 23(12): 3683-90.


• The Cardiff Arthroplasty Satisfaction Index (CASI). A simple tool for the assessment of outcome following knee arthroplasty. Kempshall PJ, Hickey B, Metcalfe AJ. Journal of Arthroplasty 28 (2013) 580-584.

• Review of Kinemax Knee Arthroplasty Performed at NHS Treatment Centre Weston Super-Mare. Kempshall P, Metcalfe A, Forster MC Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (JBJS) British Volume 2009 91-B;229-33.


• Revision total knee arthroplasty: Complications. Mini-symposium Knee Arthroplasty. Kempshall PJ, Sharma H, Morgan-Jones R. Orthopaedics and Trauma 2012; 26:2, 95-111.

Courses offered to GPs

Partial knee replacement - Daycase treatment

Knee pathology: Update on latest treatments

Knee injection techniques

Arthritis modification surgery using computer guided osteotomy