Orthopaedics and Traumatology

Mission

• To provide "client-oriented holistic care" to orthopaedic patients through continuous quality improvement, multidisciplinary approach, education and research, and developing medical and nursing professionals; aiming at enhancing patients regain capability to return to the community.
• To enhance human well being by promoting public health education with obtainable resources in partnership with the community.

Organization Structure

Scope of Service

The Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology of Tuen Mun Hospital provides medical and nursing services to citizens of north western New Territories of Hong Kong. Citizens with traumatic injury, bony fracture, burn and orthopaedic problem requiring surgery and treatment will receive state-of-the art, specialized care provided by professional doctors and nurses of the Department.

Work in line with service missions of Hospital Authority and Tuen Mun Hospital, with multi-team effort, we provide client-oriented, holistic care to orthopaedic patients, enhancing their health and well being by health education. We develop professional staff through continuous quality improvement program, education and research.

The Department provides hospital consultation, specialist outpatient consultation, orthopaedic surgery, trauma management and pre-operative and post-operative nursing care and day surgery services. In Tuen Mun Hospital, we provide male orthopaedic, female orthopaedic, paediatric orthopaedic and rehabilitation beds. We admit patients from Accident and Emergency Department, outpatient department and other hospitals. Besides, in collaborate with various allied health departments, patients can receive physiotherapy, occupational therapy, prosthesis and orthosis, pathology and diagnostic radiology services during their course of treatment. By day surgery services, patient can go home on the same day after receiving minor surgery.

Hospital In-Patient Service

Hospital in-patient services for orthopaedic patients are provided by the following wards in Tuen Mun Hospital:

Specialist Out-Patient Clinic

The orthopaedic specialist outpatient clinic services are provided in The 4th Floor, Ambulatory Centre of Tuen Mun Hospital (Telephone No. 2468 6296). There are five consultation sessions for newly registered clients and old cases following up.

Sessions of orthopaedic clinic (as at 1-7-2012):

Specialized Rehabilitation Clinics

In collaborate with other allied health departments, specialized rehabilitation care programs are provided to patients with hand injury, knee injury by sports, shoulder and elbow injury and for prosthesis and orthosis fitting.

These clinics are held in 4th Floor, Ambulatory Care Centre, Tuen Mun Hospital (Telephone No.: 2468 6296):