Anthony (tony) Hammond MD, FRCP

Dr. Anthony Hammond is an experienced Physician Rheumatologist with particular expertise in interventional spinal pain management, leading the UK in the treatment of spinal disc pain. He treats RA, SLE, OA, gout, FMS, back and neck pain, sciatica, whiplash, trapped nerve, slipped disc, discogenic pain, Disc-FX, Coblation, and APRP.

Tony Hammond was born and educated in Edinburgh and attended Edinburgh Medical School. He trained in General Medicine and Rheumatology in Edinburgh, Bristol, Bath, and London including the Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases in Bath and St Bart’s and The Royal Postgraduate Medical School in London where he wrote an MD thesis in the immunopathology of SLE.

He was appointed as a General Physician and Rheumatologist at Maidstone Hospital (Now Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust) in 1998. He built the department, conducted research, and developed interest and skills in interventional pain management under the teaching and guidance of The Spinal Intervention Society for whom he is now a tutor.

He left Maidstone in 2010 to develop the new KIMS Private Hospital where he was Clinical Chair from opening in 2014 till 2016. He has maintained part-time NHS work in Spinal Pain Management and Rheumatology at The Horder Centre and then at King’s College, London till 2018.

He is now in full-time private work mainly at the London Spine Clinic. He continues to be active in teaching and research, currently assisting the development of the enzyme Alkaline Phosphatase as a human therapeutic agent with Alloksys Life Sciences BV.