We are one of the largest Trauma and Orthopaedic centres in the country, and are renowned for our services, in particular our Hand Therapy and Surgery services.
We have a team of 50 consultants, highly trained nursing teams across seven inpatient wards, and an advanced and specialist allied health professional workforce delivering Orthopaedic services across Derbyshire and Staffordshire. We deliver Trauma services from our two acute hospital sites and elective care for orthopaedics, spines and hands from all of our hospitals.
Our new theatres and ward at the Treatment Centre at Queen's Hospital Burton supports patients through every stage of their treatment process, from getting surgery, all the way through to aftercare, like physiotherapy, and was recently celebrated by Secretary of State for Health Steve Barclay >.
Our Pulvertaft Hand Unit is a long-established specialist hand surgery centre within Royal Derby Hospital that treats a wide range of conditions of the hand and wrist. It was selected to treat Prince William for a rugby injury to his hand > in 1999, and the department runs postgraduate courses for doctors, nurses and therapists.
In addition, we are proud that;
- we are a regional spinal centre.
- we are expanding nursing training for trauma care and spinal care management.
- we we recently designated as a major revision centre at Royal Derby Hospital.
- we're developing our Orthopaedic Assessment Unit to provide high quality and timely care for our non-elective patients.
- our Queen's Hospital Burton site is third highest in the national 30-day survival rate report for hip fracture patient admissions.
Kerry, Healthcare Support Worker, talks about her role at the Treatment Centre at Queen's Hospital Burton.