Professor Paul Lee
Senior consultant orthopaedic surgeon. 2026 Robert Jones Medal & Association Prize (British Orthopaedic Association). RCSEd Regional Surgical Adviser. UK public-facing advocate of SPAIRE muscle-sparing hip replacement.
Senior hip surgeon, formed by NHS service and national professional standing
Professor Lee is a senior consultant orthopaedic surgeon with more than 20 years of NHS service, formally recognised in 2026 by Lincolnshire Community and Hospitals NHS Group Trust with the NHS Long Service Award. His clinical work spans hip preservation, hip replacement, and before-replacement decision-making.
In 2026 the British Orthopaedic Association awarded him the Robert Jones Medal & Association Prize for contribution to orthopaedic thought and practice. He also holds Royal College standing through the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh Regional Surgical Adviser Network for Grantham, and is an Honorary Professor at the University of Lincoln.
Locally, his Lincolnshire practice spans biological treatments — PRP and ChondroFiller for early cartilage and soft-tissue problems, Arthrosamid for established arthritis — through to muscle-sparing SPAIRE hip replacement when surgery is the right answer.
- Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, MSK Doctors
- Honorary Professor, University of Lincoln
- 2026 Robert Jones Medal & Association Prize, British Orthopaedic Association
- NHS Long Service Award 2026 — 20+ years of NHS service
- Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh: Regional Surgical Adviser Network (Grantham)
- GMC 6115197
Seniority, professional standing and public-service signals
Robert Jones Medal & Association Prize
Awarded in 2026 by the British Orthopaedic Association for contribution to orthopaedic thought and patient care — one of the BOA flagship prizes.
20+ years of NHS service
Formally recognised in 2026 by Lincolnshire Community and Hospitals NHS Group Trust with the NHS Long Service Award — two decades of frontline NHS orthopaedic care.
RCSEd Regional Surgical Adviser
Listed by the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in its UK Regional Surgical Adviser Network for Grantham.
Professor Lee is also a leading UK public-facing advocate of SPAIRE-style muscle-sparing hip replacement, has presented Principles of Primary Total Hip Replacement at the British Hip Society programme, and designed a biological rapid recovery pathway around hip replacement that integrates technique, implant choice and mobilisation.
A surgeon who has published on hips, not just operated on them
Selected papers spanning implant performance, registry scrutiny, revision surgery, acetabular components, resurfacing and posterior tendon-sparing technique.
Implant performance · Australian NJR scrutiny
Early Failure of the Polarstem Total Hip Arthroplasty
Engages directly with arthroplasty surveillance and registry data — the uncomfortable but essential side of implant performance.
Short-stem hip replacement · implant selection
Our early experience of the Corin Minihip prosthesis
Places Professor Lee close to evolving short-stem implant strategy and bone preservation.
Cementless acetabular cup · survivorship
Long-term results with the Atlas IIIp elastic cementless acetabular component
Long-term follow-up work in cementless acetabular technology and radiographic survivorship.
Revision THA · reconstructive complexity
Revision total hip arthroplasty with a modular tapered stem
Demonstrates engagement with the technically demanding revision end of hip arthroplasty.
Birmingham Hip Resurfacing · patient selection
Personalised Medicine for Metal-on-Metal Hip Resurfacing: 10-Year Predictors
Authority on patient selection, long-term resurfacing trajectory and predictors of success.
Cemented THR · Charnley · Exeter heritage
Modern British Cemented Total Hip Replacement
Places Professor Lee inside the lineage of modern British hip arthroplasty, not just its current practice.
SPAIRE foundations · soft-tissue preservation
Tendon-sparing posterior approach in hemiarthroplasty
Direct technical link to the SPAIRE positioning and posterior tendon-sparing surgery.
Acetabular cup · failure-rate evaluation
R3 Cup performance with conventional bearings
Reviews registry concerns about a widely used cup against real service data.
Selected hip replacement publications. Full publication list available via the MSK Doctors research profile.
Hip replacement designed as a pathway, not just an operation
The operation is one part of the result. Professor Lee designed a biological rapid recovery programme around hip replacement that integrates SPAIRE muscle-sparing surgery, selected implants and mobilisation.
Within the audited private-patient MSK Doctors pathway, treated under this specific CQC-registered service model, the reviewed cohort recorded zero MRSA surgical site infections and zero dislocations. The claim belongs to the audited service pathway under this specific protocol — not to a broad all-comers statement, and individual outcomes depend on diagnosis, anatomy, health and recovery.
Explore the work
Surgical
SPAIRE hip replacement
Muscle-sparing hip replacement in London, recovery local to Lincolnshire.
Non-surgical
Arthrosamid for hip arthritis
A long-lasting hydrogel cushion delivered locally.
Non-surgical
PRP for groin pain
Biological treatment for chronic groin and Gilmore’s groin.