A caring personable intelligent highly skilled spinal surgeon. Ian saved my future life from being "brace" bound with permanent muscle loss and nerve damage. I had spent 8 months following a full stair fall without proper diagnosis and diagnostic xrays and being told to walk from an NHS Hospital in Abergavenny. The trauma, breaks and twisted scoliosis and nerve damage were all positively undertaken by him - he gave me hope and he genuinely cared - and he reconstructed my spine from T10-L4. A major op like this needed my positive determination but his outstanding up to date skills. I recommend him whenever I can as I am so grateful to him! And I also think of him as a professional friend. Sincerely Jan Thompson