Christian West Plastic Surgeon

Plastic and cosmetic surgery practice led by Christian West

Christian West is a consultant plastic surgeon who has specialised in plastic and cosmetic surgery for more than fifteen years. His private practice covers the face, body and breasts, and he describes the service as personalised and built around face-to-face care before and after surgery. Consultations are offered privately and, according to the practice, without obligation.

The surgeon presents himself as Manchester-born and locally based, and his private work is supported by an NHS post as a consultant plastic surgeon at Whiston Hospital, which the site describes as the largest plastic surgery centre in the Northwest.

Face, body and breast procedures

The practice groups its surgical offer into three broad areas. Facial surgery includes eyelid surgery, facelift, neck lift, ear reshaping and brow lift. Body procedures cover liposuction, liposculpture and body contouring, tummy tuck and abdominoplasty, diastasis recti and hernia repair, arm lift, thigh lift, skin removal after weight loss (described on the site as "baggybody") and the combined set of operations marketed as a "mummy makeover".

Breast surgery includes enlargement with implants, reduction, uplift, asymmetry correction, implant removal and replacement, inverted nipple correction and male breast reduction (gynaecomastia). A further skin procedure listed is the repair of stretched or split earlobes. Non-surgical treatments also appear in the practice's offer through Dr Colette Norbury, who provides anti-wrinkle treatments such as non-surgical brow lifts and treatment for crow's feet.

Tummy tuck and abdominal wall reconstruction

Abdominoplasty and diastasis recti repair are presented as a particular specialty. Within his NHS work, Christian West is part of a Regional Centre for Complex Abdominal Wall reconstruction, where he focuses on tummy tuck and scar revision for the cosmetic repair of diastasis recti and problematic hernias. The practice's own material explains diastasis recti as an abdominal condition that can leave the stomach looking less flat after pregnancy even when the pregnancy weight has been lost.

Training and professional credentials

The site sets out a detailed professional background. Christian West studied medicine at the University of Leeds in 1998 and trained in Manchester and Leeds before completing international training in Perth, Australia. In 2011 he was awarded Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons in Plastic Surgery and is on the GMC Specialist Register as a plastic surgeon. He also holds an MD from the University of Manchester, awarded for two years of medical research in Sweden on reconstruction after peripheral nerve injury, and a Diploma in Hand Surgery from the University of Manchester.

His listed qualifications are MBChB, MRCS (Eng), MRCS (Ed), FRCS (Plast) and MD. He is a member of BAAPS, BAPRAS and BSSH, and a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. His NHS practice is described as covering correction of breast asymmetry and deformity, hand injuries, complex limb reconstruction and facial reconstruction for skin cancer.

Consultations and the wider team

Kerrie Mitchell, the private practice manager, is presented as the first point of contact; the site states she has ten years of experience as a PA in plastic surgery and previously worked as a medical secretary in hospital operating theatres. Dr Colette Norbury, a GP in the Manchester area with more than fourteen years of medical experience, handles the non-surgical anti-wrinkle treatments. The practice's material indicated prices for those treatments starting at £150 for one area and £195 for two areas.

Where patients are seen

Private consultations and procedures take place across several hospitals and clinics in the northwest of England and on the Wirral. The main private site is Spire Manchester on Russell Road in Manchester, with further locations at Spire Murrayfield in Thingwall on the Wirral, The Wilmslow Hospital in Cheshire and Whiston Hospital in Prescot, Merseyside. The practice states that it serves Manchester, Mersey, Wirral and the Isle of Man.