If you have an orthopaedic problem we will aim to provide your treatment to you as quickly as possible and to the highest standard.
We deliver a wide range of adult trauma and orthopaedic services, providing specialist surgery for the full range of elective upper limb and lower limb problems as well as treating a wide variety of orthopaedic trauma.
We also provide orthopaedic care to the children and young people of the region with our team of dedicated paediatric orthopaedic surgeons.
Our teams provide a range of high quality services for the benefit of our patients:
- Over 1,500 hip and knee replacements performed every year, many of which are performed as daycase procedures
- One of only a few NHS trusts in the country offering robotic hip and knee surgery
- Specialist for young adult hip and pelvic services
- The only combined orthopaedic and plastic surgery hand unit in the north east of England
- Major trauma centre offering an orthoplastic limb reconstruction services
- Major revision centre and network lead site for hip, knee and elbow revision surgery
- Paediatric orthopaedic services
At South Tees we are leaders in national and international multicentre research trials. We lead research projects in almost every area of orthopaedic surgery supported by the Academic Centre for Surgery (ACeS). We hope you will be happy to involved in this research with us.
We are experts in major orthopaedic trauma
South Tees major trauma centre is the only unit in the country which has all of the specialists needed to treat multiply injured patients under one roof. This allows us to work closely with our colleagues in other specialties to give our patients the best outcomes possible from potentially life threatening and life changing injuries.
The orthopaedic team are trained to provide the best in trauma care and we have experts in upper and lower limb trauma, pelvic fractures, hand trauma and limb reconstruction. We regularly work with our plastic surgery colleagues to provide gold standard care for open fractures.
We are a national leader in the care of patients who sustain fragility fractures and hip fractures. We are the only unit in the north east to provide a dedicated fragility fracture ward to help our patients recover to their maximum potential.
Other specialist areas
Our orthopaedic team provides treatment for all aspects of bone and joint conditions as well as simple and complex soft tissue and nerve problems.
We also provide a dedicated bone and joint infection service that is one of only a few in the country. This delivers multidisciplinary team management of complex bone and joint infection cases. This approach is considered essential to deliver the best possible outcomes for our patients.
We work closely with our anaesthetic colleagues to offer patients the option of having a regional anaesthesia (numbing of the limb rather than going off to sleep for your operation) for many of our surgeries which means a quicker return home and a shorter length of hospital stay following surgery.