Mr Budgen has worked as a Foot and Ankle Specialist Orthopaedic Consultant for 15 years and has also worked in Australia and elsewhere around the world. Due to his time spent overseas there are few conditions which he has not yet encountered. He has developed his skills by performing over 15,000 operations and many more directed injections, which have yielded exemplary surgical outcomes. He is also one of the pioneering surgeons for Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS), which is the next development on from key-hole surgery, giving excellent clinical outcomes and quicker recoveries. Whist his practices encompass all patients, he has extensive experience treating elite athletes, ballet and contemporary dancers, premiership and local rugby, premiership football and county cricket professionals.