Consultant Geriatrician with an interest in Ortho Geriatrics

at  University Hospital of North Midlands NHS Trust

Duties and Responsibilities (Geriatric Medicine) Provision of cover to your base acute elderly care ward, currently is 76B, in conjunction with 2 of the ortho-geriatricians, attendance at daily board rounds, as required, on your base ward. Cover for FEAU will be 1:9 08:00hours-17:00 hours weekdays, 1 weekday every 9 days from 17:00hours-20:00hours and 1:9 weekends 08:00hours-15:00hours. Bank holidays 1:9 08:00hours-15:00hours. Participation in rapid access clinics, which offer GPs fast-track assessments of older people and access to rapid tests.
Provide cover for an agreed complement of wards for a specialist opinion on older patients. In addition, to contribute to General Medicine admissions by doing Short Stay Ward rounds at weekends from 9 am to 2 pm and to the on-call consultant rota for Medicine by providing telephone advice in the evenings and at weekends to the medical registrar on-call (as per job plan). Duties and Responsibilities (Orthopaedics) Major Trauma Geriatrician Provide input to management of care of patients, of 65 years or older who have sustained significant injuries resulting in major trauma, ranging from head injury and spinal injuries, including cord, as well as orthopaedic injuries. Major Trauma does not include those with an isolated neck of femur or femoral fracture.
This service started in July 2020 at UHNM. The ortho geriatrician sees all newly admitted Major Trauma patients aged 65 and over fulfilling eligibility criteria, as soon as possible after admission, and does an initial assessment in conjunction with one of the six rehab coordinators. If the patients develop new medical problems after admission during their hospital stay, they can be reviewed again at the request of the ARTU Team, Neurosurgeons or thoracic surgeons. 4 sessions week in major trauma are provided by the 3 Consultant Ortho- Geriatricians at present and the new post holder will also be involved in this.
To support the surgical and acute rehabilitation specialities in optimising the medical management for these patients

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