Updated 22 March 2019
The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust (the RNOH) is a specialist orthopaedic hospital located in Greater London. It has two locations, one in Stanmore and another (an outpatient only facility) in Bolsover Street located two minutes away from Great Portland Street Tube station.
RNOH consider themselves to be the largest orthopaedic hospital in the United Kingdom (UK), and a leader in the field of orthopaedics both in the UK and world-wide.
The RNOH is a major teaching centre and around 20% of orthopaedic surgeons in the UK received training there.
Outpatient services are provided at both the Stanmore site and at the central London outpatient assessment centre in Bolsover Street. In addition to general orthopaedics, they have specialist clinics dealing with bone tumours, scoliosis, metabolic disease, rheumatology, urology, spinal injuries, specialist shoulder conditions and sports injuries.
Inpatient facilities are provided at the Stanmore location where they have 220 inpatient beds on 13 wards. The hospital has 10 operating theatres and three recovery areas of 14 beds in total with five dedicated to paediatrics. Patients requiring special monitoring after surgery are accommodated in either the high dependency unit, or intensive care unit, which had 12 beds.
In October 2016 RNOH commenced some redevelopment work in recognition of the fact that their estate was very old. In July 2018 they completed phase one of that work. This new building will provide new wards for adult surgery, a children’s ward and a private patients ward.