Key Areas/Tasks
1. Assessment, diagnosis and management of all patients admitted to Trauma & Orthopaedics. 2. Management of all patients on the trauma and elective wards, and any outlying wards. 3. To participate in outpatient, elective and fracture clinics. 4. To participate in trauma and elective surgery. 5. Referral of patients to other specialties. 6. Necessary investigation e.g. blood samples for cross match, emergency x-ray etc. 7. Appropriate transfer of patients, either:
* Admission to inpatient facilities
* Discharge with suitable follow up at the hospital
* Discharge to General Practitioner
* Discharge with no follow-up
About the Trust
The Trust is one of the largest and busiest acute hospitals in the country, each year we care for over 900,000 people who come to us for emergency treatment, planned operations and medical care. We are a teaching hospital in partnership with Keele University and we have a patient-centered clinical research facility providing state-of-the-art facilities.
University Hospital has two sites - the Royal Stoke University Hospital, located in Stoke-on-Trent, and the County Hospital, located in Stafford. From these hospitals we provide a full range of general acute hospital services for approximately 700,000 people living in and around Staffordshire and beyond. The Trust also provides specialised services, such as Trauma, for three million people in a wider area, including neighbouring counties and North Wales.
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