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The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

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Overall: Good read more about inspection ratings

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Background to this inspection

Updated 21 February 2019

The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has approximately 199 inpatient and critical care beds across nine wards. The hospital is a single site hospital based in Oswestry, Shropshire. It provides specialist and routine orthopaedic care to its local catchment area, and specialist services both regionally and nationally.

The hospital is a specialist centre for the treatment of spinal injuries and disorders, and also provides specialist treatment for children with musculoskeletal disorders. Additionally, the trust works with partner organisations to provide specialist treatment for bone tumours and community based rheumatology services.

The trust is part of the National Orthopaedic Alliance (NOA), an acute care collaboration vanguard designed to improve orthopaedic care quality across England.

(Source: Trust Website)

Overall inspection

Good

Updated 21 February 2019

Our rating of the trust improved. We rated it as good because:

  • In two core services, caring was rated as outstanding.
  • In five core services, overall, safe, effective, responsive and well led was rated as good.
  • In one core service, safe, effective and well led was rated as requires improvement.

Our full inspection report summarising what we found and the supporting evidence appendix containing detailed evidence and data about the trust is available on our website – www.cqc.org.uk/provider/RL1/reports.