A new NHS facility will provide "one-stop clinics" for knee and hip replacement and skin cancer patients in Morpeth.
The Northumbria Healthcare NHS Trust has expanded the existing Morpeth NHS centre and will now offer clinics for patients waiting for orthopaedic and plastics procedures from a new "bespoke space" on the previously empty third floor. The trust said the new facilities will "operate in conjunction" with those downstairs, where there is also a procedures room.
Nursing staff selected the name Morpeth View for the premises, based on the views from the third-floor across the Northumberland town. The idea behind the new premises is that some of the 3,200 hip and knee replacements patients looked after by the trust each year will attend for a "one-stop" clinic, rather than having to make separate trips to hospital for each of pre-assessment, physiotherapy and occupational therapy.
