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Trauma and Orthopaedics

Warrington & Halton NHS Foundation Trust provides a comprehensive multi-disciplinary Trauma and Orthopaedic service to the population of Mid Mersey, which includes fracture clinics and orthopaedic clinics, day case surgery, trauma and inpatient surgery.

Warrington & Halton NHS Foundation Trust provides a comprehensive multi-disciplinary Trauma and Orthopaedic service to the population of Mid Mersey, which includes fracture clinics and orthopaedic clinics, day case surgery, trauma and inpatient surgery.

The service includes:

  • A 24-hour, all year round trauma service providing emergency care for all patients requiring emergency orthopaedic surgical intervention
  • Outpatient services at Warrington Hospital & the Cheshire & Merseyside Treatment Centre (Halton Hospital site)
  • Planned orthopaedic surgery at the Cheshire & Merseyside Treatment Centre (Halton Hospital site) & Warrington Hospital
  • Orthogeriatrician input
  • Dedicated physiotherapy, occupational therapy & orthotic support

The Captain Sir Tom Moore Building is a purpose built orthopaedic hospital centre with 44 inpatient beds, four operating theatres, dedicated day ward, physiotherapy gym, outpatient and full CT, MRI, x-ray and ultrasound scanning facilities. Our trauma (emergency) orthopaedic surgery work, children's orthopaedic surgery and more complex cases are carried out at Warrington Hospital.

The department is fully recognised for the training of specialists in orthopaedic and trauma surgery. Our consultants also participate as examiners for The Royal College of Surgeons and Liverpool Medical School.

Our Orthopaedic Department provides consultation and treatment for the entire range of orthopaedic problems and benefits from a consultant body with sub-specialist interests in:

  • Primary hip & knee surgery
  • Arthroscopic knee surgery
  • Hip & knee reconstruction
  • Shoulder, elbow surgery
  • Anterior cruciate ligament repair
  • Foot, ankle surgery
  • Hand, wrist surgery
  • Sports injuries
  • Paediatric orthopaedic surgery

The above conditions may be treated in the following clinics:

Elective Orthopaedic clinics:
Elective orthopaedic clinics, run Monday – Friday, morning and afternoon at the Captain Sir Tom Moore (CSTM) Building in a purpose-built suite. There are very limited appointments available for elective orthopaedic patients at the Warrington Hospital site.

You may be seen by various members of the Consultant Team during your appointment, such as; Consultant, ST / Middle Grade Doctor, Surgical  Care Practitioner or a Physiotherapist. 

Fracture Clinics:

All new Fracture Clinic referrals are initially seen via a ‘virtual’ review of your referral into the service. More information on this can be found here.

Baby / Children Orthopaedic Elective Clinics:
Are held twice weekly via a visiting Consultant from Alder Hey NHS Children’s Hospital. A specialist physiotherapist also attends these clinics. 

If following your virtual review, a face-to-face appointment is required, you will be seen in one of the Fracture clinics that are held Monday – Friday at Warrington Hospital. 
 

Consultants:

  • Mr Acharya – Trauma & Orthopaedic Consultant, with a specialist interest in Lower Limb 
  • Mr Alao - Trauma & Orthopaedic Consultant, with a specialist interest in Upper Limb
  • Mr Atkinson - Trauma & Orthopaedic Consultant, with a specialist interest in Lower Limb and Fracture Neck of Femur Lead
  • Mr Badge - Trauma & Orthopaedic Consultant, with a specialist interest in Upper Limb
  • Mr Chandran - Trauma & Orthopaedic Consultant, with a specialist interest in Lower Limb
  • Mr Doorgakant - Trauma & Orthopaedic Consultant, with a specialist interest in Foot & Ankle
  • Mr Marlow - Trauma & Orthopaedic Consultant, with a specialist interest in Hand Surgery
  • Ms Prasad - Trauma & Orthopaedic Consultant, with a specialist interest in Foot & Ankle
  • Mr Robb - Trauma & Orthopaedic Consultant, with a specialist interest in Lower Limb and Trauma & Orthopaedic Clinical Lead
  • Mr Shah - Trauma & Orthopaedic Consultant, with a specialist interest in Upper Limb
  • Mr Stables - Trauma & Orthopaedic Consultant, with a specialist interest in Lower Limb

Key Medical Staffing:

The Trauma & Orthopaedic team also consists of the following roles:

  • 3 Speciality Doctors
  • 7 Surgical Trainees (formally known as Registrars) 
  • 11 Trainee Junior Doctors, made up of Foundation Year 1 – Clinical Fellow Grades

Key Nursing Staff:

  • Carol McEvoy – Surgical Specialties Lead Nurse
  • Natalie Slater – Trauma & Orthopaedic Matron
  • Ian Turner – Advanced Nurse Practitioner 
  • Deb Smith – Trauma & Orthopaedic Nurse and Outpatient Manager
  • 3 Trauma Nurse Co-Ordinators
  • Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgical Care Practitioners

Managers:

  • Dr Anna Vondy – Clinical Director of Surgical Specialities
  • Ceri Rogers – Clinical Business Unit Manager – Surgical Specialties
  • Amy Halliwell – Assistant CBU Manager – Trauma & Orthopaedics 
     

As well as ensuring that an excellent service is provided to our current patients, the department are looking to the future too and are research active. The service participates in National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) portfolio studies, examples include:

  • LUMRAD - International multicentre study looking at development of diagnostic proforma for patients with lumbar radiculopathy (Recruitment completed)
  • FAB - Fractures and Bisphosphonates - multicentre placebo controlled RCT studying the effect of bisphosphonates on fracture healing in distal radius fractures (Recruitment completed)
  • TRIO Popular - Multicentre study investigating the role of pre-operative questionnaire based assessment in predicting poor outcome in patients undergoing knee replacement surgery (Recruitment completed)
  • Dupytren's disease - Multicentre study with the University of Liverpool
  • Carpal tunnel study
  • In Respond- Arthritis UK sponsored study run by Research in Osteoarthritis Manchester (ROAM) (University of Salford and University of Manchester), into the role of insoles in the management of OA knee by assessing whether we can stratify patients into responders or non-responders before prescribing the insoles.
  • The department will be recruiting patients for a commercially funded international multicentre RCT (Novocart 3D trial) comparing Autologous Chondrocyte Transplant (Novocart 3D) with Microfracture for patients with contained chondral defects in the knee
  • Other non NIHR portfolio studies include a multicentre study looking at stem cells and tissue engineering for ACL reconstruction (University of Liverpool)

Orthopaedic Outpatients
Appleton Wing
Warrington Hospital
Lovely Lane
Warrington
WA5 1QG

Cheshire and Mersey Treatment Centre
Earls Way
Runcorn
WA7 2HH

Waiting List Queries

For enquiries regarding waiting list admissions please use the following contact numbers:

Mr Atkinson, Mr Sanger, Mr Stables - 01928 793778

Mr Shah, Miss Prasad, Mr Corbin, Mr Chandran - 01928 793780

Mr Pradhan, Mr Robb, Mr Acharya, Mr Marlow- 01928 793779

Consultant Queries

For consultant queries please contact the appropriate secretary on the following contact numbers:

Mr A Acharya - 01928 793752

Mr D Atkinson - 01928 793750

Mr P Chandran - 01928 793748

Mr N Pradhan - 01928 793754

Miss S Prasad - 01928 793751

Mr C Robb - 01928 793849

Mr R Sanger - 01928 793784

Mr N Shah - 01928 793749

Mr G Stables - 01928 793835

Appointments

For queries relating to outpatient appointments please ring 01925 662003.

For queries relating to pre-operative assessments please ring 01925 662301 (Warrington) or 01928 793764 (Halton).

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