1000th patient at Merlin Park Virtual Orthopaedic Clinic

A new virtual orthopaedic clinic in Merlin Park University Hospital saw 1,000 patients within the first 10 weeks of operation. The consultant-led clinic replaces face-to-face appointments for patients with fractures that don’t require surgery.

Mr Odhrán Murray, Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon and Virtual Clinic Lead said, “We had started looking at making changes to the way we run our outpatient fracture clinics at the start of the year, to identify ways to make the patient experience easier by reducing travel to appointments.