The knee service at Sheffield Children’s has grown by more than 400% since 2015.
The Arthroscopy Stack funded by the Children’s Champions has already made a significant difference to not only the quality of care delivered, but has also increased the number of patients being treated at Sheffield Children’s.
Dr Nicolas Nicolau, Consultant Paediatric Surgeon at Sheffield Children’s, explains: “The new arthroscopy equipment has a 4K screen, which allows us to see in much greater resolution what’s going on inside the knee. The new stack takes up less space, making it easier to use in our operating theatres with smaller space. It also has a better range of devices, allowing us to do more.
“The equipment allows us to do more operating, potentially seeing two lists of patients at the same time and doubling our capacity to treat children. More than 200 patients, up until the age of 16, have already benefitted from the equipment and only 60% of our knee cases are from Sheffield; the rest come from a huge geographical area, from the South East of England to the North West.
“Being able to show procedures on a huge screen has also meant that clinicians from across the country and internationally, as far afield as South Africa and India, have travelled to see procedures here at Sheffield Children’s. For me, the new equipment has meant I am more confident in my surgery, I feel safer and that we’re giving patients the benefit of technology in operations that we’ve not seen before. Thank you to everyone who made it possible.”
