A Worksop man has been one of the first to get a new knee and return home on the same day thanks to a team at Practice Plus Group Hospital, Barlborough (formally Barlborough NHS Treatment Centre) who have pioneered routine hip and knee replacement as day surgery. Adrian Roke, 48, was in terrible pain caused…
Read moreBack in the saddle after lower NHS waiting times end pain
A familiar face in the Humberside and Nottinghamshire farming communities is looking forward to returning to horse riding after having a hip replacement at just 49. Rachel Adamson farms 330 acres in Cottingham with her husband Dave, and for 28-years has been Group Secretary for the North Nottinghamshire National Farmers Union. She said: “It started…
Read moreBack on your bike – thanks to Barlborough Hospital
More than 40 years after a horrific crash, Geoffrey Oldknow is looking forward to a summer riding around the Peak District on his motorbike, thanks to surgery at Practice Plus Group Hospital, Barlborough (formally Barlborough NHS Treatment Centre). This year Mr Oldknow retires after more than 50 years at the Hucknall Rolls Royce factory, where…
Read moreDerby teacher back in the swing after spinal surgery
A retired Derby secondary school teacher, who spent two years barely able to walk, is back spending the summer on the golf course after surgeons removed a piece of bone that was trapping a nerve in his spine. Mr Wyn Griffiths, 67, who spent many years teaching Sociology and Economics at John Port School explained:…
Read moreNew hip gets Sittingbourne man back to work
Just seven weeks after Sittingbourne builder Paul Cripps received a new hip as an NHS patient at an Ilford hospital, he is back climbing high-rise scaffolding – and all following a trip to Practice Plus Group Surgical Centre, Gillingham. Paul, 59, had been struggling to work or sleep as the result of painful degeneration in…
Read moreThe benefits of cataract surgery are clear to Valerie
For Dr Valerie Stewart, a semi-retired industrial psychologist from Wincanton, becoming aware that she had cataracts was a gradual process. “For about six months I was constantly taking off my glasses and cleaning them, because I thought the blurred vision was caused by smears. I found I was unable to read subtitles on the television…
Read moreNew hip puts policeman Daniel back on the move
When marathon running and cycling policeman Daniel Bishop, 41, from Taunton experienced pain while out running, he thought it was simply groin strain. However, the pain became progressively worse to the point where he was unable to walk let alone run any distance, carry out his operational duties as a police officer or even sleep…
Read moreWe care for all our patients as if they were family!
At Practice Plus Group we pride ourselves on caring for our patients as if they were our own family. At our Plymouth hospital this has been taken to a new level, as the uncle and cousin of the service’s senior finance manager, Sarah Fell, received new hips. Spencer Tall, 44, and his father Dave, 70,…
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