Orthopaedics

Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust offers an extensive range of routine and specialist orthopaedic treatments for children and young people in South Yorkshire and beyond.

We are a nationally designated Major Trauma Centre with a team of 13 senior consultant orthopaedic surgeons, including four dedicated spinal surgeons.

We are proud to be a national and international Centre of Excellence in:

• developmental dysplasia of the hip
• neuromuscular and gait lab
• club foot Ponseti technique
• limb lengthening and reconstruction with external frames and intramedullary nails
• osteogenesis imperfecta
• spinal deformity
• hip preservation

Conditions we treat

We run consultant-led outpatient clinics for general orthopaedics, as well as specific clinics for skeletal dysplasia, upper limb disorders, limb reconstruction and sports injuries.

We treat a range of children’s orthopaedic disorders, including:

• traumatic injuries
• limb reconstruction
• club foot (including Ponseti method)
• cerebral palsy
• paediatric hip problems
• adolescent hip disease
• osteogenesis imperfecta
• sports injuries
• upper limb disorders
• skeletal dysplasia
• spinal surgery

Facilities / ward information

Orthopaedic outpatient services are based within the Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust Outpatient Department on the main hospital site.

The Outpatient Department is a major focus for the hospital redevelopment and will have an adjacent Radiology Department, meaning that X-rays and other types of scans will be quicker and easier to access for orthopaedic patients.

Our consultants also deliver specialist outpatient and operating services to Chesterfield, Rotherham, Doncaster and Barnsley. Clinics are also conducted at Scunthorpe and Grimsby hospitals.

The orthopaedic team has close links with our state of the art CMAS accredited Gait Analysis Laboratory based at Ryegate Children’s Centre. This allows us to look closely at the movement of legs and feet and the forces acting on joints during walking before making a decision on treatment.

Trauma and Orthopaedics admissions are accommodated on the Theatre Admissions Unit (TAU), Ward S3 and Paediatric Critical Care Unit (PCCU) as required.

Our pre-op information explains what we do to prepare patients for orthopaedic surgery.

Surgery of the future

For more than twenty years we have provided a fellowship programme for surgeons as part of our commitment to training the specialists of the future. A number of nationally and internationally renowned surgeons have spent time working at the hospital.

Our state of the art theatres ensure that we continue to give our patients the best clinical outcomes possible with pioneering surgical techniques and innovative new treatments.

Research excellence

We have a long history of research and our dedicated Children’s Clinical Research Facility was the first to open in the country.

Research papers and journal articles written by our specialists have achieved recognition across the globe.