One of our key priorities at The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital is to ensure we safeguard our patients and families to protect them from harm. Our safeguarding team provides advice and support across our Trust whilst working alongside external professionals/organisations such as GP’s, Social Care, Police, Education and Third Sector organisations to ensure every child, young person and adult who uses our services is free from abuse or neglect. Everyone at the Trust works to help protect them and promote their welfare.
Our learning disability and autism team support you to access our services and act to reduce barriers to good quality healthcare.
The team supports all staff to provide specialist care, advice and treatment in a way that suits you. This covers all children and adults who attend the ROH for outpatient appointments, therapy appointments or inpatient stays who have a learning disability or autism.
The learning disability nurse works closely with staff to ensure your needs are met and appropriate reasonable adjustments are put in place. The learning disability nurse liaises with you, your parent/carer, staff, other professionals involved and external agencies to coordinate your care.
In healthcare, we use the word transition to describe the process of preparing, planning and moving from children’s to adult services. Transition is a gradual process that gives young people, and everyone involved in care, time to get ready to move to adult services and discuss what healthcare needs are required as an adult. At the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital, we use the Ready, Steady, Go programme to support children and young people moving into adult services.
At The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital, we are committed to providing the highest level of signposting assistance for patients with mental health issues. The Vulnerabilities Team within the Trust consists of 3 Dementia and Mental Health Practitioners who provide advice and signposting to other agencies regarding appropriate responses and pathways into services. If a patient is assessed and deemed to not require an emergency or urgent response but requires on-going support, patients will be offered follow-up care within the patient’s local authority for example their named GP or signpost to other support services. We aim to deliver the best care to patients, people, and families in our local communities by working effectively with partners to help people live well.
If you are attending for day surgery, a Pre-Operative Assessment appointment, or an Outpatient appointment, and you require urgent mental health support, you will be advised to seek mental health support from the NHS 111 call line.
The Vulnerabilities Team approach is to deliver whole person, place-based care using a population-based approach to mental health issues and mental wellbeing promotion.
The NHS Mental Health services in Birmingham and Solihull are provided by Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Trust