Royal Orthopaedic Hospital

This article is about the hospital in Birmingham, England. For the hospital in London, see Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital.

Royal Orthopaedic Hospital
The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
From Bristol Road South, photo 2006
Royal Orthopaedic Hospital is located in West Midlands county
Royal Orthopaedic Hospital
Shown in West Midlands
Geography
LocationNorthfield, Birmingham, England
Coordinates52°25′16″N 1°57′40″W / 52.421°N 1.961°W / 52.421; -1.961
Organisation
Care systemNHS
TypeSpecialist
Services
Emergency departmentNo
SpecialityOrthopaedic surgery
History
Opened1909
Links
Websitewww.roh.nhs.uk

The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital (ROH) is a National Health Service specialist orthopaedic hospital situated in Northfield, Birmingham, England. The ROH specialises in bone and joint problems.[1]

History

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The hospital's origins in a new convalescent home established by the Crippled Childrens Union at The Woodlands in Northfield in order to treat children with deformities in 1909.[2] The building, dating from 1840, had been donated to the Crippled Childrens Union by George Cadbury, who then moved into Northfield Manor House later in 1909.[3]

The Crippled Childrens Union merged with the Royal Orthopaedic and Spinal Hospital to form the Royal Cripples' Hospital at The Woodlands in 1925.[2] After the joining the National Health Service in 1948, the Royal Cripples' Hospital became the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital.[4]

A new £8 million out-patient department was opened in May 2011. Its 24 consultation rooms, treatment rooms and other facilities replaced the temporary out-patients buildings that had been used since 1992.[5]

Notable staff

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  • Fanny Rebecca Smith (1884–1969), Matron for 23 years from 1925 until 1948.[6][7][8] Smith trained at The London Hospital under Eva Luckes between 1908 and 1910, and remained as a staff nurse for two years.[6][9][10] Before her appointment at Woodlands as matron, Smith was assistant Matron at the Royal Orthopaedic and Spinal Hospital from December 1913.[6][11]

Performance

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The hospital was named by the Health Service Journal as one of the top hundred NHS trusts to work for in 2015. At that time it had 831 full-time equivalent staff and a sickness absence rate of 4.56%. 84% of staff recommend it as a place for treatment and 67% recommended it as a place to work.[12]

It decided to stop providing paediatric surgery after the West Midlands Quality Review Service report concluded, "that paediatric inpatient surgery would be better delivered in a hospital setting with access to extensive centralised care facilities at all times".[13]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Royal Orthopaedic Hospital". NHS. Retrieved 3 October 2009.
  2. ^ a b "Royal Orthopaedic Hospital". Rossbret Institutions Website. Archived from the original on 5 July 2009. Retrieved 3 October 2009.
  3. ^ "Historic Northfield Manor House to be rebuilt after devastating arson attack". Birmingham Mail. 9 October 2016. Retrieved 13 September 2018.
  4. ^ "Royal Orthopaedic Hospital, Woodlands, Birmingham". National Archives. Retrieved 13 September 2018.
  5. ^ "Outpatients unit opens at Royal Orthopaedic Birmingham". BBC News. 3 May 2011.
  6. ^ a b c Rogers, Sarah (2022). 'A Maker of Matrons'? A study of Eva Lückes's influence on a generation of nurse leaders:1880–1919' (Unpublished PhD thesis, University of Huddersfield, April 2022)
  7. ^ "At Woodlands Fete". Nursing Times. 29 (1471): 659. 8 July 1933 – via www.rcn.org.
  8. ^ "Send off for the Matron". Birmingham Gazette: 3. 26 February 1948 – via www.findmypast.co.uk.
  9. ^ Fanny Rebecca Smith, Register of Probationers; RLHLH/N/1/15, 9; Barts Health NHS Trust Archives and Museums, London
  10. ^ Fanny Rebecca Smith, Register of Sisters and Nurses; RLHLH/N/4/3, 66; Barts Health NHS Trust Archives and Museums, London
  11. ^ Matron’s Annual Letter to Nurses, No.23, Matron's Annual Letter to Nurses, 1894–1916; RLHLH/N/7/2, No.23, May 1916, 33; Barts Health NHS Trust Archives and Museums, London
  12. ^ "HSJ reveals the best places to work in 2015". Health Service Journal. 7 July 2015. Retrieved 23 September 2015.
  13. ^ "Troubled specialist trust to lose paediatric surgery service". Health Service Journal. 17 July 2017. Retrieved 17 July 2017.
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