Mr Gregory Firth

Biography

Mr Gregory Firth is an Orthopaedic Consultant based at The Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust in Kent, having been appointed to the role in February 2023 as a substantive consultant. He also works at the Children’s Orthopaedic Practice at The Portland Hospital. Mr Firth is dedicated to the treatment of children with both elective pathologies and trauma-related injuries. The Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust is a busy centre caring for children with orthopaedic-related conditions from around Kent and East Sussex. Mr Firth qualified as a consultant orthopaedic surgeon in South Africa in 2009 and did two international fellowships in paediatric orthopaedics in Canada and Australia in 2010 and 2011 respectively. He completed his CESR equivalence in trauma and orthopaedics in the UK in 2020. Between 2011 and 2018 Mr Firth was head of the paediatric orthopaedic unit at Baragwanath Hospital in South Africa, the 3rd largest hospital in the world – he developed and expanded the service. Alongside his work in Johannesburg he ran a busy private practice too. His current practice includes the treatment of children with general paediatric orthopaedic conditions, both elective and traumatic. Mr Firth has received a number of awards over his career, including the best registrar prize, best-presented paper, a research training fellowship grant, poster awards, orthopaedic literary awards and the ABC travelling fellowship in 2014. He completed a Master’s project in hip dysplasia in 2008 and developed a paediatric orthopaedic research team in Johannesburg between 2011 and 2018. He has mentored, supervised and marked over 20 Masters projects in orthopaedics and is currently involved as an honorary lecturer at QMUL through the existing Masters project. He has published over 50 peer-reviewed articles and has been the local principal investigator for four multicentre randomised controlled trials. He has multiple presentations nationally and internationally and is currently involved in a number of research projects in the UK. Mr Firth was secretary of the South African Paediatric Orthopaedic Society (SAPOS) for 4 years (2014 to 2018) and is currently the joint sectional editor at the SA orthopaedic journal (SAOJ) for paediatric Orthopaedics. He is an invited reviewer for multiple peer-reviewed Journals and a reviewer for NIHR Health Services and Delivery Research Programme (UK). Mr Firth is currently a member of the General Medical Council (UK), the Health Professionals Council of South Africa (HPCSA), the British Society for Children’s Orthopaedic Surgery (BSCOS), the South African Paediatric Orthopaedic Society (SAPOS), the European Paediatric Orthopaedic Society (EPOS), the British Orthopaedic Association (BOA)and the South African Orthopaedic Association (SAOA). He has been actively involved in medicolegal work over the last ten years as an expert witness in paediatric orthopaedics and orthopaedic trauma cases for both plaintiffs and insurance companies.