After your visit to the Emergency Department you may be initially referred to our Virtual Fracture Clinic. As the name implies this is a virtual clinic and patients do not need to attend.
An Orthopaedic Consultant and Nurse will look at your notes and x-ray and contact you with advice. You may be asked to physically attend our Fracture Clinic or you will be given advice over the phone and discharged with the option to call back anytime for further advice or an appointment.
It is helpful if you give the staff in the Emergency Department your most up-to-date phone number and remember the call may come from a 0800 number.
Following assessment you may be sent a letter with one of the following leaflets:
Following the Virtual Clinic outcome, you may be given an appointment to attend one of our Fracture Clinics in the Gatehouse Building (Castle Street). An orthopaedic doctor will look at your notes, x-rays and talk to you about your injury. The clinics are split up into different body parts on different days of the week (see chart below). The patients attending this clinic are usually people who have had an accident so there can be lots of patients at the same clinic. The nurses will keep you up to date if waiting times are longer than expected. It is helpful if you have something to eat before you come and take your normal medicines. It is also helpful if you bring a list of any medication you are currently taking.
Fracture Clinic Schedule
Monday: Foot and Ankle Morning Clinic
Tuesday: Elbow/Shoulder Morning Clinic/Hand and Wrist Afternoon Clinic
Wednesday: Hip Morning Clinic
Thursday: Knee Morning Clinic
Friday: Frame Clinic Morning Clinic
Nurse Led Clinic
After an injury or in some cases after an operation you may be asked to attend to one of our Nurse Led Clinics. These clinics are held daily Monday to Friday and are run by our specialist nurses who are very experienced and have had training in orthopaedic injuries and operations. If a doctor is needed the nurse can contact one to see you.
Additional Information
If you have been asked to attend the Fracture Clinic and wish to cancel or rearrange your appointment please call 0141 201 3105 or 0141 201 3114
These lines are staffed from 8.00am until 5.00pm Monday to Thursday and 8.00am until 4.00pm on Fridays (excluding public holidays).
Should you require any additional advice from medical staff, the specialist nurses can be reached on 0141 201 6417 or 0141 201 6416 during normal office hours.
for further information on your patient journey select from the boxes below
When you attend your clinic appointment to see the Specialist Clinician you may be given a selection of leaflets about your condition to read. Please select the correct body part to find the appropriate leaflet.
You will also find our Virtual/Fracture Clinic leaflets for self-management which will be posted out to you following attendance at A&E and assessment by our Orthopaedic Specialist Clinicians.
Select the body part below for further information.
Note: Patients are not expected to attend Virtual Clinic appointments.
The Orthopaedic Consultant and Nurse will look at your notes and x-ray(s) and contact you with advice. This might be an appointment to come to the clinic or phone advice and discharge with the option to call back anytime for further advice or an appointment.
It is helpful if you give the staff in the Emergency Department your most up-to-date phone number and remember the call may come from a 0800 number.
Following assessment you may be sent a letter with one of the following leaflets:
Very simply, Patient Focused Booking (PFB) puts patients at the heart of the booking process by engaging them in dialogue about their appointment. Previously, patients would be sent an appointment letter, with the date and time of their appointment, no matter how far ahead in time that may have been. When the appointment day came, patients may have no longer required the consultation, may have forgotten to turn up or booked clinics may have been cancelled.
With PFB, patients are sent an invitation letter, inviting them to telephone or email the hospital to arrange a suitable date and time for an appointment within current guarantee time guidelines. The process is complemented by a policy that prevents a clinic being cancelled with less than six weeks’ notice. Therefore, when the patient phones or emails, the appointment options are limited to only those clinics scheduled in the next few weeks (non-routine patients are clinically prioritised to by-pass this process and will always be seen first).
The call operator offers a choice of dates and times and the patient chooses the most convenient to them. After a period of 7 days, if the patient fails to phone a reminder letter will be sent, after checking contact details, if the patient fails to respond to the reminder letter after a period of 7 days a further letter is sent to the patient and their GP, explaining that they have been removed from the waiting list.
Inpatient Contacts
Glasgow Royal Infirmary
Ward 61: 0141 201 5842
Ward 62: 0141 201 5846
Wards 26/27: 0141 201 1193
Same Day Admission Unit (Reception): 0141 201 5370/1
Stobhill Ambulatory Care Hospital
Day Surgery Unit (Reception): 0141 355 1329
If you know the name of your consultant and have been listed for surgery, please contact the relevant secretary detailed below.
Orthopaedic Service – Consultant Secretaries
Knee and Trauma Reconstruction / Common ACL Mr C Drury, Mr A MacLean Tracey Wilson 201 3723
Specialist Knee Mr B Jones Denise Fisher 201 3718
Common Knee & Trauma Mr M Blyth, Mr A Shaw Toni Docherty 201 3731
Common / Specialist Foot Mr C Kumar, Mr Paul Jenkins Debbie Clearie 201 3751
Glasgow Royal Infirmary Attend Anywhere Helpline: 0141 201 3105/3114 (Glasgow Royal Infirmary/Stobhill Orthopaedics ONLY)
In order to gain access to the video consultation service you must have a previously arranged appointment which you will be informed of via the orthopaedic outpatient service. There is currently no drop-in service available via video.
Before Your Appointment:
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The GRI Limb Reconstruction Service manages all local and tertiary referrals involving complex trauma, open fractures, non unions, deformity corrections and limb lengthening. There is a close link with the plastic surgery department and there is a joint clinic with orthopaedics and plastics once a month. The limb reconstruction team members are:
A demonstration of the Glasgow Royal Infirmary pin site dressing protocol for external fixation patients.
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Glasgow Royal Infirmary has a specialised Foot and Ankle Service which includes orthopaedic foot and ankle consultants, Advanced Podiatry Practitioners (APP), specialist nurses and other member of the orthopaedic team.
Many foot and ankle problems can be treated by a local Podiatry Service in Community Health Centres. You can self-refer directly to these services without having to ask your GP to refer you.
To access the Community Podiatry Services contact your local area:
Glasgow – 0141 347 8909
Lanarkshire – 01236 731881
If your foot and ankle condition is not improving or if you require further assessment, you may be referred to the Orthopaedic APP for review.
Although you may have already undergone podiatry management before, the specialist podiatrist in the Orthopaedic Department has an advanced role having undertaken additional orthopaedic training. They work in a similar role to the orthopaedic consultants and can arrange and manage further tests such as x-rays, MRI scans and blood tests. In addition, assessment and discussions about foot and ankle surgery can be carried out by our APP Podiatrist.
Appointments with the orthopaedic podiatrist
Appointments to see our specialist podiatrists are arranged by medical professionals. If you need to reschedule or cancel an appointment that has already been organised for you at Glasgow Royal Infirmary Orthopaedic Podiatry Department, please use our Patient Focused Booking lines open during office hours.
Are there alternative options for non-digital information?
Please contact our team and we will provide non-digital options either through mailed hardcopies, telephone discussion or one-to-one education sessions.
What do I do if I need an interpreter?
If your English is limited or if you need the services of a sign-language interpreter please contact the Orthopaedic Team as soon as possible so that an interpreter can be arranged.