Mr Michael Butler

Mike qualified from the London Hospital Medical College in 1996, having attended Cambridge University for his undergraduate studies. After junior doctor jobs, he attended Keogh Barracks and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst to complete Officer Training and then undertook 2 years as a Regimental Medical Officer to an infantry regiment

After basic surgical training, he undertook further specialist training at the world-renowned Avon Orthopaedic Centre in Bristol (including trauma surgery at Frenchay Hospital) and the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Oxford. He has been an Orthopaedic Consultant on the Specialist Register of the General Medical Council since August 2009.

Mike retired from the British Army at the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in October 2018 but retained his substantive consultant appointment at the Royal Cornwall Hospital in Truro and at St Michael’s Hospital in Hayle and continues to see servicemen and servicewomen as well as Armed Forces veterans.