Timothy Burge : Consultant Plastic Surgeon, Bristol

Specialist in acute care and reconstruction of burns victims, plastic surgery, cosmetic surgery and aesthetic surgery

Timothy Burge MB ChB FRCS FRCS (Plast), a Consultant Burns and Plastic Surgeon at Frenchay Hospital, Bristol originates from Bristol, UK where he attended Colston’s School and qualified from Bristol University Medical School in 1981. He also works at the Bristol Children’s Hospital and sees patients at the Bristol Royal Infirmary and SouthmeadHospital.

Having joined the Army in 1978, officer training was followed by two years as a General Practitioner and Regimental Medical Officer (1st Battalion Scots Guards and the Cheshire Regiment) in Hong Kong and Nepal.

In 1985 he specialised in surgery, training in military hospitals in Yorkshire, Northern Ireland, London, Hong Kong and Nepal. He started working in Plastic Surgery in 1986 and in 1988 became a Fellow of the College of Surgeons of England (FRCS). He served in the first Gulf War with the Army Burn Team in Saudi Arabia and was then attached to the NHS for further general surgical training (in Basingstoke and Edinburgh) before sub-specialisation in Plastic Surgery in the UK.

Mr Burge was a Registrar in Plastic Surgery in Edinburgh (St John’s Hospital, Livingston and the Royal Hospital for Sick Children) and a Senior Registrar in Plastic Surgery at Queen Mary’s University Hospital, Roehampton, London, UK. He passed the Intercollegiate Fellowship examination in Plastic Surgery (FRCS (Plast)) in 1996.

He worked at the US Army’s world famous Burns Unit at Brooke Army Medical Centre and with the US Air Force at WilfordHallHospital; both in San Antonio, Texas. He was able to visit the CosmeticSurgeryCenter in San Antonio, the Shriners Paediatric Burn Centre in Galveston, the Kleinert Hand Institute in Louisville and the renowned cleft surgeon, Dr Ralph Millard, in Miami.

Mr Burge (now a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Royal Army Medical Corps) returned to England in 1996 to take up a post as Consultant Plastic Surgeon at the Royal Hospital Haslar, Portsmouth. He was also the Armed Forces lead clinician in burn care.

He served in Bosnia and Kuwait and had a further detachment to the Burns centre in Charleston, South Carolina in 2000. In 2001 he visited plastic surgery units in Nepal and Paris. He left the Army in 2001 to take up his present post as Consultant Burns and Plastic Surgeon at FrenchayHospital, Bristol.

His special interests include the acute care and reconstruction of burns victims, both adult and children. Much of his other work relates to trauma and cancer. He has a longstanding interest in aesthetic surgery. He undertakes large amounts of medico-legal work. He has published and presented on a variety of topics in learned journals or to learned societies.

Qualifications

• BCh - Bachelor of Surgery

• MB - Bachelor of Medicine

• FRCS - Fellow Royal College of Surgeons

• FRCS (Plast) - Plastic Surgery Fellow Royal College Surgeons

Membership of professional organisations

• General Medical Council specialist register

• Member of the British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons

• member of the British Burns Association

• Member of the British Association of Aesthetic Surgeons

• Member of the British Medical Association

• Member of the Medical Defence Union

• Member of the Military Surgical Society

Why choose Timothy Burge?

• Mr Burge does not claim any greater skill than any other surgeon – reputable doctors don’t.

• Mr Burge’s training, experience and qualifications are clearly laid out

• Mr Burge is a sole practitioner without ties to any clinic or particular hospital. Mr Burge can therefore provide a personalised service, tailored to the individual patient.

• Mr Burge sees all his patients himself, operates on them himself and follows them up himself. At many clinics initial consultations are with a nurse or sales person.

• Mr Burge will normally insist on a two week gap between consultation and surgery. This complies with Government guidelines and allows time for those inevitable questions and doubts to be addressed. Further preoperative calls and consultations are always available and are always free. In many clinics the first time that the patient and plastic surgeon meet is minutes before surgery.

• Mr Burge would much rather not operate on someone than end up with a dissatisfied patient – whatever the fee!

• Mr Burge usually operates at St Mary’s Hospital in Clifton, Bristol. Many ‘clinics’ consult in Bristol but operate in London, Manchester or Birmingham.

• Mr Burge lives within walking distance of St Mary’s Hospital, in the unlikely event of problems.

• Mr Burge only uses highly qualified Consultant Anaesthetists.

Treatments offered

Mr Burge is able to offer a wide range of plastic surgery procedures. These include (but are by no means limited to):

• Breast augmentation (enlargement)

• Breast reduction

• Mastopexy (‘breast-lift)

• Gynaecomastia correction (male breasts)

• Abdominoplasty (‘tummy-tuck); both ‘full’ and ‘mini’

• Liposuction / liposculpture

• Correction of prominent ears

• Upper and/or lower eyelid correction

• Facelift, including ‘minilift’ and necklift

• Scar treatment

• Skin cancer treatment

Fees and Payment

Cosmetic consultations

• First visit (30 minutes)  - £100

• Follow up visits as required - Free

Cosmetic procedures

Indicative prices can be obtained prior to consultation by contacting Mr Burge’s secretary. As every patient is different definitive prices cannot be given until after the initial consultation. At that point a written quotation will be produced, valid for three months.

Fixed price scheme

Mr Burge usually practises private cosmetic surgery at the Bristol Nuffield Hospital in the UK. The hospital operates a fixed price scheme which includes pre-operative assessment, nursing and hospital stay, Mr Burge’s fee, anaesthetist’s fee, operating theatre time, special garments and as many follow up appointments as are required. There is also a limited warranty against complications.

Non-cosmetic procedures

These may be covered by insurance. Please consult your insurer in the first instance.

Contact details

The Bristol Nuffield at the Chesterfield
3 Clifton Hill
Clifton
Bristol
BS8 1BP
United Kingdom

Tel:   0117 974 2650

Email: tim.burge@clifton-plastic-surgery.co.uk

Web: www.clifton-plastic-surgery.co.uk

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