Wrightington Hospital

Wrightington, United Kingdom

Wrightington Hospital is a centre of excellence for Orthopaedic Surgery. We have over thirty Consultants and cover all of the sub specialties within Orthopaedics. We perform more Orthopaedic surgery than any other Hospital in the North West of England. The Hospital has a long history of innovation and research, built on the legacy created by
Professor Sir John Charnley. He is most famous for pioneering hip replacement surgery in the 1960s, but also designed the clean air operating theatre and a system for handling surgical instruments, which reduced infection rates during surgery. We continue to build on his legacy today and are proud of our low infection, revision, re-admission and complication rates.

All of the above means that our patients receive the best possible care and clinical
outcomes.

In December 2015 we opened a new state-of-the-art Orthopaedic Centre at Wrightington Hospital. The Centre cost £18.1m to build and contains:

• Two new wards with a total of 56 beds, most of which will be single room en-suite accommodation
• A new admissions unit
• A four bay operating theatre complex with seven space recovery area

The centre has revolutionised the way we care for patients and allowed us to make even further advances with innovations such as our enhanced recovery programme.

The quality of the build and the environment it creates for patients and staff has been nationally recognised; our design of four bedded bays and single rooms will now be used across the NHS for other similar Hospital Developments.

We have ten hand and upper limb surgeons and one plastic surgeon who perform arthroscopy, joint replacements, trauma and sports injury reconstruction, brachial plexus and peripheral nerve surgery. As a tertiary referral centre we receive a large number of complex cases from other surgeons around the country. We are one of the only units in the country to have dedicated elbow surgeons. The surgeons are supported by dedicated specialist physiotherapists and hand therapists to get the best outcome for our patients.