Hello my name is Dr. Raj Patel. I'm the deputy medical director for primary care
for NHS England. I've also been a GP for 25 years and in my practice I see
patients right from the moment they're born, up until their final illnesses and
their last breath and it is just an extraordinary privilege to be able to
see people through their entire lives and look after their families. Very
occasionally I have to refer people to the hospital.
If I do refer people to the hospital sometimes it's for a procedure if you
have to have a procedure in the hospital there are a number of people you're
likely to meet.
I'm Lisa I work as a staff nurse in the elective
orthopaedic preoperative assessment unit and part of my role is to work with a
team of nurses, in a nurse led clinic and we see patients that are referred for
elective orthopaedic surgery. We complete the preoperative assessment,
take the medical history from the patients and complete the tests that are
then needed, following the assessment. We then follow up the results and make sure
that they're prepared and optimised before surgery.
My name is Dez Nelson Barrett I'm a theatre patient escort. My job is to
receive patients, bring them up to the theatre patient reception - where we
wait with them, we check all the paperwork and then after that we wait
until they're picked up by an ODP, taken round to theatre for whatever procedure they're
going to have.
Hi my name is Derryl Disney I'm theatre
admissions lounge reception. My first job in the morning is to greet the patients,
sit them down, admit them on the computer so that all the details are rim ready
sometimes we take them through to their pods and then from then we start the
procedure of getting tomorrow's list ready and collecting the notes in for
that list.
Hi my name's Ali. I work at the pre-op Department. I'm a health care assistant, so
what I do is I bring the patients through do their observations and then
if required the nurses will ask me to do their ECG and Bloods.
Hi my name is Lynn Simpson.
I predominantly work for theatre
stores, I also do a speciality coordinator for orthopaedics which means
ordering all the implants required for all the hip operations and the
operations on all the orthopedic replacements that they do in the
neo-theatres
Hello my name is Lorraine. I'm an orthopedic nurse practitioner, I work
alongside consultants and I see the patient all the way through the patient
journey. I'll see them when they're first listed when they see the consultant for
the hip replacement or knee replacement whatever surgery and I do a triage on
them and then I'll order any medical tests at that point to make sure that we
can get them fit for surgery
Hello I'm Andrew Manktelow. I'm an orthopaedic consultant I work here in
Nottingham and I specialise in hip surgery. So I actually carry out the
operation, the hip replacement. I see the patients in clinic to decide
whether we feel that their symptoms are bad enough for surgery
I talk them through the operation and then I go ahead and perform the
operation for them. I look after them on the ward and then make sure they do well
once they get home
Hi I'm Richard Briley. I'm the workshop manager for estates here at NHU. I work
very closely with all the theatre departments and we do the pre-planning
maintenance every year. This will involved a predetermined date when the
theatre is closed, and I arranged for the workforce to do all the specific
maintenance required. This includes everything from the ventilation and heating,
working and servicing the air handling units in the plant rooms, to actual work within
the theatre.