New Carpal Tunnel Surgery Service launched

The practice is a member of Novus Health, which is an organisaiton of local GPs and hospital consultants who wish to provide high quality services to patients, close to their homes in innovative and cost effective ways. Click here for the the Novus Health website. Kings Medical Practice is going to host a surgical service for patients with Carpal Tunnel Syndrome.

Typical symptoms of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome are numbness and tingling in the hand around the thumb. Click here for a good information leaflet from www.patient.co.uk about Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. When we refer a patient with Carpal Tunnel Syndrome to the Novus service patients will be first seen by a GP screener. In Normanton, Dr Dewhirst at Queens Street Surgery will be assessing our patients. The screener will confirm the diagnosis and then discuss the treatment options. Doing nothing is an option, as one in four get better on their own, alternately patients can choose to have a steroid injection and if that does not help they can have surgery. Carpal Tunnel Release surgery is undertaken by consultant surgeons who are members of Novus Health.

Surgery for Carpal Tunnel Syndrome is done with local anaesthetic and will be done at Kings Medical Practice on a Saturday morning. The practice has a state-of-the-art operating suite with changing rooms, scrub room, operating room and recovery room. It has the latest laminar flow air system installed to 'blow bugs out of the theatre suite'!

The practice is very pleased to be able to participate in this service - we hope you don't develop Carpal Tunnel Symptoms, but if you do then we want to provide the best possible service - quickly and close to home!

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