Biography Oliver Blocker is a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Practice Plus Group Hospital, Birmingham. He was previously a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Practice Plus Group Hospital, Emersons Green in Bristol, but relocated in September 2024, to our hospital in Birmingham. Mr Oliver Blocker specialises in primary and revision knee and hip replacements.  In addition to…

Biography Petros Mikalef is a Consultant Orthopaedic Hand and Spasticity surgeon who works at the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital in Birmingham. He has completed Fellowship training in Hand Surgery and in Spasticity Surgery, in 2013. His classification system for surgical neurectomy has been adopted internationally. He has significant experience in the operative treatment of elective hand…

Biography Dr Lydia Knoell graduated from the Medical Faculty of J.W. Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main, Germany in 1986. She started her medical career in general medicine and paediatrics and then began her training in Anaesthesia and Intensive Medicine and Emergency Medicine in 1990. Dr Knoell qualified as a specialist in Anaesthesia in 1996…

Biography Peter Vasas is a Bariatric (weight loss) surgeon having completed an Ethicon-sponsored national bariatric fellowship programme in the UK and Belgium. He specialises in Bariatric operations including band, bypass and sleeve gastrectomy as well as revision surgery. I came here for a Sleeve Gastrectomy with the great Dr. Peter Vasas. My surgery went smoothly…

Biography Mr Ridyard is a multi-award winning Ophthalmologist specialising in all aspects of medical and surgical Glaucoma. He also specialises in complex and high volume Cataract Surgery. Ed also holds a substantive Consultant post at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and is an Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Leeds. Related consultants

Biography Having trained as a specialist registrar at the Oxford Eye Hospital, Rubina completed a two-year fellowship in Vitreo-retinal surgery. She has been working as a Consultant Ophthalmologist at Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS foundation Trust since September 2002, providing Vitreo-retinal service to the whole of Huddersfield, Halifax and surrounding areas. She has recently retired from…

Biography Mr Zsolt Balogh graduated from the Medical University of Debrecen, Hungary in 1989. He qualified in Radiology in 1993, and Radiation Oncology in 2003. He has worked in the Radiology and Oncoradiology Departments of the Aladar Petz County Teaching Hospital in Gyor, Hungary from 1989 to 2010. He was granted an honorary observer post…

Learn more about Szabolcs Szigethy Mr Szigethy is an active member in the ear, nose and throat medical field. He has been involved in award-winning research in the treatment of sarcoidosis, and regularly participates in local and international courses. Mr Szigethy joined Practice Plus Group Hospital, Shepton Mallet in 2014. Mr Szigethy treats self-pay, private…

Biography Dr Tomasz Jozwik qualified in medicine in Poland in 1990. He completed his specialist training in anaesthesia in 1999. He has been working as a consultant anaesthetist since 2005 and joined Practice Plus Group Hospital, Barlborough in the same year. Dr Jozwik has a special interest in regional anaesthesia and enhanced recovery after surgery…

Biography Miriam Langdon’s science and clinical background began in Canada as an undergraduate in genetics and progressed to a medical degree and post-graduate research in physiology in Ireland. Dr Langdon was appointed to Practice Plus Group following thirteen years as Senior Consultant Anaesthesiologist in the National Orthopaedic Hospital, Ireland where she specialised in anaesthesia and…