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Formerly St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

Our Services A - Z - Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgery

About the service

Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals Trauma and Orthopaedic department provides a comprehensive trauma and elective service, that diagnoses and treats conditions and disorders of bones, limbs and joints, dealing with any pain or damage, especially fractures. Our team of highly skilled 17 Orthopaedic consultants provides a wide range of high quality elective (planned) and non-elective (trauma) procedures.

Services and treatment at the Trust include:

  • Hip and Knee replacements, keyhole surgery
  • Upper limb ( Shoulder, elbow, wrist and hand)
  • Lower Limb (Foot and ankle)
  • Paediatric
  • Sports medicine
  • 24 hour on-call service for all trauma cases
  • Joint School
  • CT, MRI, X-ray and Ultrasound scanning facilities

Our team works across both Whiston and St Helens Hospital providing day case, inpatient and outpatient services. We run the following clinics for children and adults:

  • Fracture Clinics including plaster room service at Whiston Hospital
  • Orthopaedic elective clinics as St Helens
  • Specialist arthroplasty clinics across sites
  • Physiotherapy clinics across sites
  • Dressing clinics at Whiston Hospital

 

Page last updated on 10th September 2024

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