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    THE ROBERT JONES & AGNES HUNT HOSPITAL        [ Top UK Hospitals - Orthopedic Surgery ]
Name THE ROBERT JONES & AGNES HUNT HOSPITAL
Address The ROBERT JONES & AGNES HUNT Orthopaedic
& District Hospital NHS Trust
Oswestry,
hropshire, - United Kingdom
Town Oswestry
State Shropshire
Country England
Post Code SY10 7AG
Phone +44 (0) 01691 404000
Fax +44 (0) 01691 404050
Email PALS.office@rjah.nhs.uk
Website http://www.rjah.nhs.uk
    Details About THE ROBERT JONES & AGNES HUNT HOSPITAL - Orthopedic Surgery Hospital

Welcome to the Robert Jones & Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic & District Hospital NHS Trust
The Trust is a specialist hospital providing elective orthopaedic surgery and musculo-skeletal medical services.

It is committed to providing the best possible care, training and research to benefit the people of England, Wales and beyond.

It also provides some local hospital services for the communities in and around Oswestry.

This website has been created to help explain what the Trust does and we hope it will answer some of your questions. We are always looking for ways to improve our website and your views are very important to us so if you have any comments or suggestions please contact us.

Our History
Agnes Hunt was born into a Shropshire land-owning family in 1867. At the age of nine, she developed a painful hip condition, despite which she later trained as a nurse. In 1900, she opened a convalescent home for children in Baschurch, the forerunner of the present hospital.

In 1903, her hip problem led her to consult the eminent orthopaedic surgeon Robert Jones of Liverpool. He was impressed by her work, and became Consultant to the Baschurch Home. Under their joint leadership, it flourished and developed into an orthopaedic hospital treating patients of all ages, on open-air principles. It became the 'Shropshire Orthopaedic Hospital ' after moving to its present site in 1921.

After Robert Jones' death in 1933, the hospital was renamed 'The Robert Jones & Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital'. Agnes Hunt died in 1948, shortly after the foundation of the National Health Service. In 1994, the hospital became a self-governing NHS Trust, and on 1st October 2000, celebrated the centenary of its foundation.

Infection Rates

What is Infection?
We all have bacteria, good and bad, in and on our bodies. Eliminating them entirely is neither possible nor is it always desirable. Infections occur when the bacteria get through our defences into the body.

MRSA bacterium - is simply an antibiotic-resistant strain of Staphylococcus aureus, a bug we normally have that is often found harmlessly on the skin surface, in the nose or in the environment. You will have heard about national MRSA figures. These relate to the severest MRSA infections where the bacteria gets into the bloodstream from an infection elsewhere. The Trust has reported just ONE case of this type of infection in the last 12 months.

ESBL E coli and Klebsiella - another antibiotic-resistant bacteria, which lives in the gut and can spread to the bladder after urinary catherterisation and cause urinary infection. These urinary and bloodstream infections are uncommon at the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic and District Hospital NHS Trust.

Clostridium difficile - a bacterium that causes diarrhoea after antibiotics. Again the Trust has very low rates of this infection.

What does the Trust do to control infection?
The Trust has one of the lowest infection rates in the country. It has an infection-control nurse and a consultant microbiologist who advise on infection control measures and the hospital has seven special ultra-clean-air theatre for surgery. To find out more about its unique theatres click here.

All staff are told and encouraged to clean their hands between attending to individual people by hand washing and by using alcohol hand rub. The latter is available for their use in every patient area.

What is the hospital infection rate?
For surgical wounds, the Trust's rates of infection have been consistently low since 2002. National infection rates are higher than our rates. These rates are for infection detected while in hospital after the surgery.

  National rates RJAH rate 2001 RJAH rate 2002 RJAH rate 2003

RJAH rate 2004

RJAH rate 2005
Hip replacement 1.60% 1.40% 0.45% 0.44% 0.52% 0.57%
Knee replacement 0.90% 0.43% 0.44% 0.28% 0.41% 0.23%
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