Hampshire Hospitals has now opened the doors to a new Hampshire Orthopaedic Centre (HOC), based at the Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester. The Hampshire Orthopaedic Centre is a new facility that improves access to elective surgery and reduces the elective backlog across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. It provides more capacity, running five days a week with consultants from both Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and University Hospital Southampton operating at the facility. This new facility is part of a national programme to deliver 'surgical hubs', designed to increase elective capacity as part of the NHS England 'Getting It Right First Time' programme, offering hundreds of thousands more patients quicker access to some of the most common procedures.
Adults across Hampshire and Isle of Wight who require orthopaedic operations (such as hip and knee replacements) are eligible to attend the new facility, which features 16 single patient rooms, two orthopaedic theatres, and multiple four-bedded patient bays.
Crucially, it allows more orthopaedic patients to be seen and reduce waiting lists, with consultants from both Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and University Hospital Southampton operating at the facility.
Alongside the new Hampshire Orthopaedic Centre, Hampshire Hospitals is also currently building a new outpatient facility specifically for orthopaedics. Scheduled to open in late 2025, this new department facility will provide eight outpatient rooms; a co-located plain film x-ray service with an adjacent treatment room; and four fracture clinic assessment booths with an adjacent two bay plaster room.
