Tim is on the Specialist Register as an Orthopaedic Consultant, his clinical practice is exclusively surgery of the Foot and Ankle.

His NHS base is at Wrightington Hospital.

Tim gained his specialist training in Manchester, before completing a foot and ankle fellowship at Wrightington Hospital. Following this he attended as a resident at The Rocky Mountain Orthopaedic Clinic in Canada (arthroscopy and sports medicine fellowship). During his training, he won both the Sanofi-Synthelabo Travelling Fellowship Prize in 2002 and the British Orthopaedic Foot Surgical Society Travelling Fellowship Prize in 2004.

He has published articles on both ankle and knee replacement, daycase forefoot surgery and has presented at regional, national and international meetings.