In summer 2025, Hampshire Hospitals will open the doors to a new Hampshire Orthopaedic Centre (HOC), based at the Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester.
This new facility is part of a national programme to deliver 'surgical hubs', designed to increase elective capacity as part of the NHS England 'Getting It Right First Time' programme, offering hundreds of thousands more patients quicker access to some of the most common procedures.
The new Hampshire Orthopaedic Centre, which will welcome orthopaedic patients from Hampshire Hospitals and University Hospitals Southampton, features 16 single patient rooms, two orthopaedic theatres, and multiple four-bedded patient bays.
Crucially, it will allow more orthopaedic patients to be seen and reduce waiting lists, running six days a week with consultants from both Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and University Hospital Southampton operating at the facility.
The operations taking place in the new Hampshire Orthopaedic Centre will be in addition to surgery already taking place at hospitals across Hampshire & the Isle of Wight, with patients from Southampton and Hampshire to be offered the choice of having their operation at either their local hospital or the Hampshire Orthopaedic Centre.
Alongside the new Hampshire Orthopaedic Centre, Hampshire Hospitals is also currently building a new outpatient facility specifically for orthopaedics. Also scheduled to open in 2025, this new department facility will provide eight outpatient rooms; a co-located plain film x-ray service with an adjacent treatment room; and four fracture clinic assessment booths with an adjacent two bay plaster room.
View our Hampshire Orthopaedic Centre fly-through video, design plans, images and other resources below:
Watch a fly-through video of the new Hampshire Orthopaedic Centre here.
Learn more about surgical hubs and the NHS England 'Getting It Right First Time' programme here.
