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The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

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Overall: Good read more about inspection ratings

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Background to this inspection

Updated 20 December 2019

The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital is one of the largest providers of elective orthopaedic surgery in the UK and is one of five specialist orthopaedic centres. It offers three tiers of service: routine orthopaedic operations for a local population of 4 million people in Birmingham and North Worcestershire; specialist services, such as spinal surgery; and diagnosis and treatment of malignant bone conditions.

The trust specialises in planned treatments of large and small joint replacement, spinal services, orthopaedic oncology and bone infections. The hospital provides a specialist bone infection service. The hospital is one of five centres in England for the diagnosis and treatment of malignant bone tumours. The trust is one of 12 centres in England for the treatment of soft tissue sarcomas.

The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital has 10 operating theatres and 106 beds across six wards, six of which are on a high dependency unit. The trust employs just over 1,000 staff, including more than 40 consultant medical staff.

(Source: Routine Provider Information Request (RPIR) – Acute context tab)

Overall inspection

Good

Updated 20 December 2019

During our inspection, we inspected surgery and critical care. We did not inspect medical care, services for children and young people or outpatients at this inspection, but we combine the last inspection ratings to give the overall rating for the hospital.

Our rating of the trust stayed the same. We rated it as good because:

  • Both core services were rated as good across all domains, safe, effective, caring, responsive and well-led.

Our full inspection report summarising what we found and the supporting evidence appendix containing detailed evidence and data about the trust is available on our website – ww.cqc.org.uk/provider/RRJ/reports.