Miss Caroline Blakey

Miss Blakey is a Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgeon with interest in developmental dysplasia of the hip (DDH) and hip preservation surgery at the Sheffield Children’s Hospital and the Doncaster Royal Infirmary; she was appointed in April 2019. On fellowship, Miss Blakey has trained within hip arthroscopy and open hip preservation surgery both within the UK and Australia, and Paediatric Orthopaedics at the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne. Miss Blakey completed her basic surgical training in intensive care, vascular surgery, and trauma & orthopaedics in 2005, she then practiced as a Senior House Officer in Trauma & Orthopaedics at the Newham General Hospital and Paediatric Orthopaedics at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Stanmore during the years 2005-2008. Following this, Miss Blakey was a Research Fellow at the St Georges, University of London for the Elective Orthopaedic Centre during 2008-2010. Miss Blakey became a Specialist Training Registrar within the South Yorkshire Deanery during the year 2010-2016 practising within multiple specialities including paediatric orthopaedics, lower limb arthroplasty, shoulder and elbow, foot and ankle, spines, hands, trauma/limb reconstruction, and soft tissue knee, with two years in training at Sheffield Children’s Hospital.

Miss Blakey’s consultant practise comprises of general paediatric orthopaedics and trauma, but she predominantly sees paediatric and adolescent hip disorders. Miss Blakey has an adult practice at the Doncaster Royal Infirmary where she manages patients appropriate for hip preservation surgery.

Miss Blakey was awared the MD(res) degree from the St. Georges, University of London for her thesis entitled Anterior Instability of the Hip. This work was undertaken largery during her time as a Clinical Research Fellow at the Elective Orthopaedic Centre in Epsom. In addition, Miss Blakey has set up studies in both cadaveric and animal models and has initiated links between the Orthopaedic Department in Sheffield and the Department of Mechanical Engineering with several collaborative studies. Miss Blakey is an Associate Principle Investigator for the multicentre randomised control Children’s Radius Acute Fracture Fixation (CRAFFT) trial and SBOCK trials and is currently a Joint Supervisor for BMedSci students undertaking research within her department. During Miss Blakey’s fellowship in Melbourne, she co-authored a systemic review and results of the Delphi consensus – Developing a surveillance protocol in DDH. Miss Blakey’s research interests lie within the field of paediatric and general orthopaedics including research on knee arthroplasty, tibial fractures, hip, and more.

Miss Blakey is currently an Academic Training Programme Director for the trainees on the South Yorkshire Orthopaedic Training Rotation. She also acts as a Clinical Supervisor for orthopaedic registrars at the Sheffield Children’s Hospital and is responsible for the training of the Advanced Nurse Practitioner. Miss Blakey is Educational Lead for the department. Miss Blakey is the faculty of the Chesterfield and Sheffield FRCS (Tr&Orth) Clinical Examination Course and the BOA clinical examination course. Miss Blakey makes up part of the JCIE question writers for the FRCS(T&O) and runs the Sheffield Paediatric Orthopaedics and Trauma Skills Course. In 2010, Miss Blakey gained the Postgraduate Certificate in Healthcare and Biomedical Education from the St. George’s University of London; she worked towards this during her time as a Clinical Teaching Fellow where she was responsible for coordination of the musculoskeletal curriculum for groups of fourth and final year students and led small and large group teaching. Miss Blakey co-authored a handbook for core trainees which is now used throughout the region and initiated the SHO teaching programme in Doncaster as well as delivering much of the content herself.

Miss Blakey has published numerous journal articles, presentations, web publications, book chapters, academic courses, and audits. These include topics on periacetabular osteotomy, cheilectomy of the hip, arthroscopic surgical treatment, paediatric orthopaedic decision making, paediatric musculoskeletal infections, diagnosis and surgical treatment of hip disease, hip replacement, knee arthroplasty, tibial fractures and much more.

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Miss Blakey is an Academic Training Programme Director for trainees on the South Yorkshire Orthopaedic Training Rotation; a Clinical Supervisor for orthopaedic registrars at the Sheffield Children’s Hospital and is responsible for the training of the Advanced Nurse Practitioner. Miss Blakey is Educational Lead for the department.

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