An opening ceremony was held for the North West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre at Central Middlesex Hospital in May and it will provide around 4,000 orthopaedic procedures a year.
The £9.4m North West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre is one of the first major developments of the North West London Acute Provider Collaborative.
The North West London Acute Provider Collaborative is a partnership of the four acute NHS trusts in the sector:
- Chelsea and Westminster Hospital
- The Hillingdon Hospitals
- Imperial College Healthcare
- London North West University Healthcare
The Centre will be managed by London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust.
The new Centre will also help reduce a waiting list of more than 16,000 patients that has built up since the pandemic.
The Centre will provide around 4,000 orthopaedic procedures a year
Additionally, the Centre brings together most routine bone and joint procedures, such as knee and hip replacements, in northwest London.
This approach has been shown to improve quality and efficiency, enabling better care for more patients.
It also frees up surgical capacity in other hospitals, such as our Charing Cross Hospital, to focus on more complex procedures where patients need more specialist care.
However, patients’ pre-operative and post-operative care remains in their local hospitals, with their surgeons moving with them to carry out their procedures in the specialist centre.
The Centre will be managed by London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust
Ian Sinha, Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at Imperial College Healthcare, said: “We’re already finding that our new approach works really well for patients and for our clinical teams – it’s enabling greater collaboration and learning which will help us improve the quality of our care as well as reduce waiting lists.”
Matt Bartlett, Orthopaedic Surgeon and Medical Director of the Centre, said: “A similar model in south London has proved very successful. It is all about providing a faster more equitable service. Orthopaedic procedures involving bones and joints make up more than a quarter of all NHS operations, and we are working hard to reduce waiting lists.”