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Orthopaedic Service

Mr. Cholmeley is an Orthopaedic Surgeon at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital and its branch
at Stanmore, and Mr. Busfield is an Orthopaedic Consultant at Hillingdon Hospital.
During the year the North West Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board reported that Mr. Cholmeley
would retire from his appointment in the National Health Service on the 31st October but they were
prepared to offer him a locum tenens engagement to cover the Ealing clinics. It is, however, the
Board's policy to discontinue local authority consultant clinics as soon as the appropriate hospital
department is able to accept the additional load. This is to be regretted since these clinics have been of
considerable benefit to local residents. The hospital link has enabled such facilities as operative
treatment, x-ray, provision of appliances and pathological investigations to be freely available to
children attending our clinics who have remained under the same consultant surgeon throughout their
treatment. Admission to hospital has also been able to be arranged promptly and the subsequent follow-up
by the consultant and physiotherapist at the local clinic has avoided undue travel.
Referrals to these clinics usually follow from routine medical inspection at schools, from the general
school clinic, from family doctors and a small number from other hospitals.
The figures for attendance during 1968 are:-
New cases 198
Re-attendances 686
Total 884
Physiotherapy is provided at the following clinics:-
Greenford Green Ravenor Park
Mattock Lane Northcote
Islip Manor
Ear, Nose and Throat Service
Ear, nose and throat sessions were carried out at Ravenor Park and Mattock Lane clinics on
alternate weeks by Mr. R. M. Savage, F. R. C. S. (Edin. ),D. L. O. , for the first six months of 1968 and
figures for attendance during that time were:-
New Cases 77
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