Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust

18/12/2025

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17/12/2025

Congratulations to Specialist Advisor for Safeguarding Children, Anne Byrne, who has been awarded a Cavell Star Award.

Anne was presented with this award on Thursday 11 December by Deputy Chief Nurse, Mercy Wasike.

The Cavell Star Awards are given to nurses, midwives, nursing associates and healthcare assistants who shine bright and show exceptional care to one of three groups; colleagues, patients, or patients' families. The award has been allocated to Anne for going above and beyond in safeguarding children in our care, keeping the child central and escalating cases to make a positive and sustained difference in children and young peoples lives.

Anne will be retiring next week after dedicating eight years of working at the trust in the Safeguarding team.

Happy Retirement Anne! We wish you all the very best for the future!

17/12/2025

We are thrilled to share that our amazing colleague Sharon Gill, Lead CNS Neuro-Urology, has been honoured with a ‘Hans’ Award on Channel 4’s ‘The Last Leg – Stand Up to Cancer’ special, aired on Friday 12 December 2025.

Sharon was nominated by Matt Forde, RNOH Charity Ambassador and comedian, as his personal hero for the incredible care and support she provided during his recovery from cancer surgery.

The Hans Awards celebrate extraordinary individuals who go above and beyond, often supporting people with disabilities and making a real difference.

In a wonderful surprise for Matt, Sharon appeared at the very end of the show to collect the award in person (…popping out of a mascot costume!).

Reflecting on the moment, Sharon said: “We are a team with the privilege to work with Matt in helping him post his cancer surgery. This highlights the work we do and the care that Matt is very thankful for at the RNOH.”

Matt became an RNOH Charity Ambassador in 2024 after being treated here for a spinal tumour and has championed our work ever since.

Congratulations Sharon - we are so proud of you and the RNOH Neuro-Urology team!

Watch the episode here: The Last Leg SU2C – Series 36: Episode 9 | Channel 4 (Sharon appears first at 26:15 and again at 47:47):https://ow.ly/NNxA50XKJXZ

16/12/2025

Our thanks to all the staff who came and saw the lighting of the Menorah displayed in the hospital reception area in The Stanmore Building, to mark Hannukah. Our thanks for Anthony, our volunteer Jewish Chaplin, and Fr Paul, for hosting. There was even a rather ingenious Menorah made from some repurposed medical materials.

12/12/2025

Our amazing Therapies Team had some amazing and Epic ;-) cakes this year at their annual Christmas Bake Off yesterday, Thursday 11 December 2025. This year’s event introduces a new twist, the “Star Baker – Patient Vote award. And that’s not all – the team also rocked their festive knits in support of RNOH Charity.

Message from the RNOH Elf, Liz:

"Your bakes, decorations, and festive jumpers made the day so fun and full of Christmas spirit. 🎄🧁

We are delighted to announce this year’s winners":

🏆 Bake Off Winners:

1st Place: Amputee Team (pictured right)
2nd Place: Upper Limb Team
3rd Place: LSCIC Team

🎄 Best Christmas Jumper:

Anya Farrow-Ullah

✨ Best Aisle Decoration:

1st Place: Dietician/SALT Team
2nd Place: Upper Limb/OP MSK Team
3rd Place: Privates Therapy Team

💌Star Bakers - Patient Choice Award went to the 'Epic' Christmas Tree!

We had an overwhelming response from our patients this year, with more than 128 votes submitted through the Christmas Bake Off poll. The winner of the Patient Choice Award is… Paeds Team!!

Congratulations to Anya Farrow-Ullah, for Best Christmas Jumper! :-)

Congratulations to all of our winners – and a big shout-out to everyone who participated. You made this year’s Bake Off a truly festive, fun, and delicious event!

Thank you to our judges: Anju, Marie, Liz, Laura, John and Paul.

12/12/2025

The NHS has published the second round of league tables ranking every trust in England and we’re delighted to announce that we have maintained our position as the second highest rated of all acute/specialist providers in the NHS. You can view the league table here: https://data.england.nhs.uk/dashboard/nofacute (click on 'League Table' tab in menu bar)

This ranking reflects the professionalism and commitment RNOH staff display every day to ensure we deliver the very best care to our complex and diverse patient group.

Professor Paul Fish, RNOH Chief Executive, said: “We’ve maintained our number two ranking down to the hard-working staff, volunteers and partners who deliver the best care, consistently, to our patients. I want to extend my thanks to them all for ensuring RNOH stays the best orthopaedic centre in the UK and a global centre of excellence.”

The rankings are published under the NHS Oversight Framework which provides a consistent and transparent approach to assessing NHS trusts and integrated care boards (ICBs), ensuring public accountability for performance and providing a foundation for how NHS England works with systems and providers to support improvement.

The roles and responsibilities for Trusts cover delivery of high quality (safe, effective and positive patient experience) and efficient care, and compliance with the requirements of the NHS provider licence.

The performance assessment measures each provider’s delivery on key metrics across six domains. They are:

- Access to services

- Effectiveness and experience of care

- Patient safety

People and workforce

- Finance and productivity

- Improving health and reducing inequality (non-scoring)

RNOH came out at number two nationally when measured against these metrics. This result demonstrates that RNOH is not only the top national provider of orthopaedic care, but also one of the best performing acute Trusts in England and Wales when measured against these crucial indicators.

12/12/2025

We'd like to wish all our Jewish colleagues, volunteers, patients and our local community a very happy Hanukkah. Hanukkah begins at sundown on Sunday 14 December and continues for eight nights.

We will hold a celebration in the atrium of the Stanmore Building from 12:30 to 1:30 PM on Tuesday 16 December.

There will be candle lighting and refreshments. All staff, volunteers, patients and relatives welcome!

Wishing all staff and patients a happy and bright Hanukkah! Chag Sameach

11/12/2025

Resident doctors at RNOH — previously known as junior doctors — are due to take part in a strike from 7am on Wednesday 17 December until 7am on Monday 22 December.

This industrial action may impact some services at Stanmore at Bolsover Street locations. We will try to ensure we minimise disruption.

If you have an outpatient appointment or a procedure with us, you will be contacted directly if this needs to be rescheduled.

Please attend as normal if you don’t hear from us.

Where appropriate, please use other non-hospital services for advice and treatment during this period of industrial action, such as:

- NHS 111: www.111.nhs.uk or call 111
- GP practices (they will continue to be open during the strike)
- Walk-in centres
- Pharmacies

09/12/2025

Last month, Mr Manish Desai, Consultant at RNOH's London Spinal Cord Injury Centre (LSCIC), was invited by the Canadian SCI and Rehabilitation Association (CSCIRA) to participate in a panel discussion on prevention, early diagnosis, management and rehabilitation of Neurogenic Heterotopic Ossification (NHO) in patients living with spinal cord injury.

Neurological Heterotopic Ossification (NHO) involves the formation of bone in soft tissue following a neurological condition, of which the most common are brain and spinal cord injuries. NHO often forms around the hip, knee and shoulder joints, causing severe pain and joint deformation which is associated with significant morbidity and reduced quality of life.

Mr Desai shared the current practice amongst the UK Spinal injury units, discussed current areas of clinical equipoise regarding diagnosis (imaging and biomarkers), and proposed a best practice model for prevention of NHO in high-risk patients with SCI and management of evolving and established NHO. This was based on peer reviewed literature evidence and the best practice recommendations by the Metabolic Bone Unit at RNOH.

By discussing the clinical cases treated at LSCIC in the past few years, Mr Desai also emphasised how specialist multi-disciplinary team rehabilitation can improve patient reported outcomes and function in established NHO cases.

05/12/2025