To the General Practitioner

The Benefits to the General Practitioner

The Hip & Knee Centre gives you the advantage of knowing that your patient will be under the care of a consultant orthopaedic surgeon who has the expertise to advise and manage diseases and disorders of the hip, knee and ankle joints and who leads a multi-disciplinary team offering a total care concept, the benefits of which are:

• Simple referral structure
• Communication
• Reduced waiting times
• A care management programme which your patients will understand
• Regular patient monitoring
• Rehabilitation programme
• Only implants with proven track records are used
• Reduced General Practitioner consultations due to team management
• A commitment to good practice
• Quality audit report undertaken
• Fixed price surgery for your uninsured patients
• Patient helpline
• The Centre will undertake a Research programme to audit the quality of the work undertaken, which means that we will be able to report our findings to the medical profession.