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

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

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

  • 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

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

References

  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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