If you have concerns about the safety of a child, young person or vulnerable adult while visiting our hospital, please speak to a member of staff who will contact the Safeguarding Team. Please contact the Safeguarding Team via This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. If you think someone may be at immediate risk, danger or harm, contact the police on 999.
Adults who are worried or concerned about their safety and require support can speak to a member of staff at The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital or contact:
Birmingham Adult Social Care: 0121 3031234 between 9-5pm or out of hours 0121 6754086 (If you are vulnerable adult with care and support needs)
National Domestic Abuse helpline: 0800 2000 247 (confidential, non-judgemental information and support 24/7)
Samaritans: 116123 (whatever you are going through, you can contact the Samaritans for support)
Police: 999 if you or someone else is at immediate risk
Children and Young People under 18 years old who are worried about their safety and require support or advice can speak to a member of staff at the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital or contact:
Birmingham Safeguarding Childrens Partnership: 0121 3031888 between 9-5pm or out of hours 0121 6754806
Child Line: 0800 1111
Police: 999 if you or someone else is at immediate risk
Samaritans: 116123 (whatever you are going through, you can contact the Samaritans for support)
YoungMinds Textline: 85258 (Provides free 24/7 text support for young people across the UK experiencing mental health crisis)
Review of effectiveness
In 2021/22, our anti-slavery programme will also:
Garry Marsh
Executive Director of Patient Services, Governance and DIPC
The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital
July 2021
We use the word transition to describe the process of preparing, planning and moving from children's to adult services. Find out more here.
The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital supports the Government’s objectives to eradicate modern slavery and human trafficking and recognises the significant role that NHS providers play in both combatting it and supporting victims. This is part of our safeguarding strategy and arrangements.
Modern slavery is a hidden crime that encompasses slavery, servitude, human trafficking and forced labour. We are committed to ensuring that all of our employees are aware of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 and their safeguarding duty to protect and prevent any further harm, and abuse when it is identified or suspected that the individual may be or is at risk of modern slavery/human trafficking.
We are committed to ensuring that no modern slavery or human trafficking takes place in any part of our business or our Supply chain.
This statement sets out actions taken by The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital to understand all potential modern day slavery and human trafficking risks and to implement effective systems and controls. In particular, we ensure our supply chains and business activities are free from ethical and labour standards abuses.
Steps taken to date include:
We celebrate learning disabilities and strive to ensure you have the best experience when using our services. We have a learning disability nurse whose role it is to support you to access our services and reduce barriers to good quality healthcare. The learning disability nurse supports all staff to provide specialist care, advice and treatment in a way that suits you. This covers all children and adults who attend the ROH for outpatient appointments or inpatient stays who have a learning disability or autism.
The learning disability nurse works closely with staff to ensure your needs are met and appropriate reasonable adjustments are put in place. The learning disability nurse liaises with you, your parent/carer, staff, other professionals involved and external agencies to coordinate your care.
We will offer and implement reasonable adjustments in line with The Equality Act (2010) and NHS Long Term Plan (2019) to ensure that our services are fully accessible to you. Reasonable adjustments are individual to each patient, so please tell us what you need.
We will:
Some examples of how we can support you
For Outpatient appointments:
For inpatient stays:
Coming soon!
Florence Dowling,
0121 685 4000 extension 55721
07341123385
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We'd love to hear about your experience at the ROH. Please let us know about your visits and how we could improve our services.