Ms Samantha Hook

I am a lower limb primary and revision arthroplasty and robotic assisted hip and knee replacements Surgeon in West Sussex based in Chichester.

I was appoined to a Consultant Post in St Richards Hospital, Chichester in July 2011 and then in Spetmber 2020 moved to Queen Alexandra Hospital, Portsmouth to continue my consultant career

My private practice is at the Chichester Nuffield where I have been practising since 2013.

I qualified from Bristol University Medical School in 1999 having also gained a BSc in Anatomical Science during my medical degree.

After house jobs, anatomy demonstrating and junior surgical jobs in Bristol and the South West I successfully completed my specialist registrar training in Wessex gaining FRCS (Tr&Orth) in 2008.

During my training I developed a passion for lower limb arthroplasty and in particular Hip Surgery.  I was lucky enough to gain a fellowship in the World renowned unit in Exeter at the Princess Elizabeth Orthopaedic Centre. This unit is internationally known and renowned for the development of the extremely successful Exeter Hip, the most used cemented Hip replacement world wide.  During my year in Exeter I was lucky enough to work with the highly skilled surgeons and wider team where I developed my skills in primary hip replacement surgery as well as revision procedures including the use of bone impaction grafting, a technique developed in Exeter and Nijmegen for reconstructing bone defects in revision cases.

Following my year in Exeter I spent six months at the Nuffield Orthopeadic centre in Oxford working in the Bone and Soft Tissue Tumour Unit where I gained experience in Tumour and reconstructive surgery.  In addition I was involved in Revision arthroplasty reconstructive techniques.  Oxford has a Bone Infection unit and takes complex infected arthroplasty cases form the surrounding area.  Whilst working in the NOC I developed an interest in Infected Arthroplasty management and now work very closely with an Orthopaedic Microbiologists in managing these complex cases.

I also have an interest in education and training and whilst working in West Sussex I was training programmed director for the Kent Surrey Sussex Orthopaedic training programme.  I am currently a member of the selection design group for Orthopaedic recruitment.

In addition I am a regular faculty member on education and webinar arthroplasty courses and an active member of the British Hip Society.