About Me
Mr Tim Williams MBBS MRCS FRCS(Tr & Orth)
Mr Tim Williams is a Consultant Orthopaedic Foot & Ankle Surgeon with over 20 years of specialist experience in the assessment and treatment of foot and ankle conditions.
His private practice is based at The Oaks Hospital in Colchester, where he sees patients from Essex, Suffolk and across East Anglia. Consultations are available for self-funding patients and those with private medical insurance.
Mr. Williams is also available for bespoke sports consultations in adolescents at Reflex-18 Sports Injury Hub.
He holds an NHS consultation appointment at ESNEFT – Colchester
‘C-FACT’ – Colchester’s Foot & Ankle Clinical Team
For the NHS Mr. Williams leads the Colchester Foot & Ankle Clinical Team (C-FACT). This multidisciplinary team spans across the hospital and in the community through the Anglian Community Enterprise to provide as complete a service as possible for the North East Essex population.
He also provides specialist ankle Injury clinics and surgeries to the armed forces, maintaining strong links with Colchester Garrison, Honnington and Wattisham. Mr. Williams is a Clinical Champion for ESNEFT Veterans covenant.
Mr. Williams is the Associate Director of ESEOC the new Orthopaedic Super-hub in Colchester. He is also Clinical Director of Podiatric Surgery in Ipswich and the ICENI Education centre across sites. He set-up and helps run the educational surgical ‘wet-lab’ for consultant and junior training.
Mr. Williams is an active member of British Orthopaedic Foot & Ankle Society and European Foot & Ankle Society. His passion for education and training is fulfilled as recent Lead for Overseas Education, setting up courses in Africa, Bangladesh and beyond. He travels as course director to Lilongwe, Malawi in April 2026. He lectures for BOFAS on courses aimed at trainees and new consultants.
Background
Mr. Williams career began as a medical student at the London teaching hospitals of Guy’s and St. Thomas’ in 1994. After 17 years of training he became a consultant in 2011. Surgical training exposed him to the skills of many aspects of the profession including Vascular surgery, General surgery, ENT surgery, Urology and Plastic surgery working in and around London. He spent a very busy post working in Accident & Emergency at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, now a level 1 trauma centre.
Mr. Williams took a sabbatical in 2004 to teach anatomy to students at Cambridge University. He subsequently became a Specialist Registrar on the East Anglian Orthopaedic Training Rotation in 2005 and from here on completed his general trauma and orthopaedic training and developed his interest in Foot & Ankle Surgery. The rotation saw him working for senior consultants across the region including at Cambridge University Hospitals.
His Senior Fellowship training of 2010-2011 was at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Stanmore under the tutelage of Mr. Dishan Singh to whom he remains loyal and indebted for his time and teaching.
After joining Colchester in 2011 he has specialised in all aspects of Foot and Ankle surgery and grown a passion for both deformity correction but also sports soft tissue injures of the Ankle and Foot. Particular fields of study include human gait, The Progressive collapsing foot, Ankle Ligament rconstruction and the Plantar Plates of the Foot.
Mr. Williams maintains an interest and love of rugby working with Colchester Rugby Club 1st team and injury management with Reflex-18. Reflex-18 is a sports injury hub in which Mr. Williams is a shareholder and business partner with Physiotherapist Josh Congdon. Together they also are developing a brand of braces, sports tapes and consumables.
Mr Tim Williams relies upon the support of several people to deliver the highest quality of care to you
Susan Rose
Private Secretary
Sue has worked with me from the moment I started back in 2011. She is the centre of my private practice and incredibly helpful to patients connecting them to me or to the hospital directly wither knowledge and experience. Point of contact for all private referrals and Military contract patients. Telephone Number: 07597 486533
Diane King
NHS Secretary
Based at Colchester Hospital, Diane King has been a loyal PA and kept our Foot & Ankle ship afloat since I started as a consultant. Pivotal to all I do in ESNEFT she can be reached via Telephone: 01206 747474.
Governance and on-going training
Since 2005 Mr. Williams regularly attends Foot & Ankle surgical meetings and conferences throughout the UK and Europe, on occasions further afield. He also strives to maintain his general skills with revalidation sessions at the British Orthopaedic Association yearly conferences
This is all reflected upon in Mr. Williams ‘Annual Appraisal’ that saw revalidation with the GMC 2021
Mr. Williams convenes the thrice yearly meetings of the East Anglian Foot & Ankle Society in Cambridge. A gathering of consultants from across the region to discuss the more complex and problematic cases encountered in our practice.
Upon invitation he has attended and spoken regularly at the Round Table of Foot & Ankle Surgeons which gathers experts from across the globe to discuss aspects of the speciality in detail with evidence and eminence based consensus. His transcript of the inaugural meeting in Padua, Italy forms part of a series of clinical updates provided to specialists for the next 5 years at the yearly British Society conference. From 2026 he is to be co-convenor of this prestigious event.
Next Step...
If you would like to arrange a consultation to discuss your foot or ankle problems with Mr Williams, then please contact us.