TRAUMA AND ORTHOPAEDICS SURGERY (TOPS)

The TOPS Working Group was established to support service improvements for children who require an orthopaedic or trauma-related surgical procedure across our region.

The group reviews national standards and recommendations for these procedures and helps to ensure that hospitals across the West Midlands are able to deliver them.

The network aims to ensure that services provided across the region are high quality, patient-focused, and continue to improve to meet the needs of our patients.

Clinicians and managers from hospitals across the West Midlands come together to discuss patient pathways and to agree priority areas that they can work collaboratively on to improve the experience for children and their families.

For more information: bwc.wmsicodn@nhs.net

Frequency of meetings

Quarterly

Membership

Caption

Trusts across West Midlands

 

Members

Birmingham Women's and Children's Trust

 

Ed Bache

James Phillips

Wahid Hussain

Joanne Thomas

Dudley Group Foundation Trust (DGFT)

 

Prakash Palaparthy, 

Rajeev Bansal 

George Elliot Hospital (GEH)

         

Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospital (SWBH)

 

Siten Roy

Stephen Shaylor 

Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital (SATH)

Ed Rysdale

South Warwickshire Foundation Trust (SWFT)

Thomas Wood

The Royal Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic (RJAH)

Derfel William

Suzanne Marsden 

Gemma Brett 

Nigel Kiely 

Laura Crump

The Royal Wolverhampton Trust (RWT)

Ramanan Vadivelu 

Bobin Varghese

University Hospital Birmingham Trust (UHB)

       

University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire Trust (UHCW)

Steve Cooke 

Giles Pattison 

University Hospitals of Northern Midlands Trust (UHNM)

Jon Dywer 

David Emery 

Walsall Hospital Trust (WHT)

      

Worcester Acute Hospital Trust (WAHT)

  

Wye Valley Trust

Iain Bissell 

Priorities

The priorities for all the clinical working groups are agreed by the SIC steering group members. The priorities include ensuring that regional practice aligns to national standards, identifying and attempting to address regional variation in practice, and collaboration to ensure continuous service development at both a local and regional level. Over-arching priorities are set annually and are reviewed regularly at group meetings. The group will annually review its progress against their agreed priorities, and report back to the Surgery in Children Steering Group.