Welcome to the Oswestry Outcome Centre website.

Please feel free to browse through the site at your leisure but due to patient confidentiality, we would ask you to register and log in to the site as a member before you can access the on-line score forms. 

Please read the following carefully before you register. 

The data collected by the Outcome Centre is registered under the Data Protection Act 1998 and may be used for medical research, however this data will be anonymous so that it will not be possible to identify you. 

By registering on the web site and completing the questionnaire, I consent to my personal details being recorded by the Oswestry Outcome Centre (OOC).  I understand that the OOC will NOT release my personal data to any third parties except to my Consultant/ Surgeon or where there is a clear overriding public interest in disclosure.

Our Objectives:

1. To undertake and provide evidence of the outcome of orthopaedic surgery.
2. To plot an individual’s progress following major joint replacement or other orthopaedic treatment against a standard survival curve to determine how well they are doing.
   
3. To provide information and feedback to the patient, surgeon and manufacturer.
   
4. To identify problems or benefits of each type of prosthesis or procedure.
   
5. To measure the survival of the prosthesis or procedure.
   
6. To motivate data collection and support by providing feedback and audit data to the clinician as close to data entry as possible.
   
7. To publish the results.
   

Dear Patients,

The Oswestry Outcome Centre is an organisation dedicated to the collection of clinical data and assessment of planned operations and procedures. They will be assigned the task of assessing the outcome of your planned operation. Your surgeon is keen for us to collect information on the details of the operation, in order to provide information on how well the joints work.
I have developed this centre with the help of the Institute of Orthopaedics, a charity dedicated to improve the care of arthritis through research and teaching young surgeons. The information related to the outcome of the BHR implant has been made possible by a major effort from MMT (now Smith and Nephew), The Oswestry Outcome Centre, surgeons all around the world and most importantly, previous patients.
Patients have volunteered to enter outcome studies and fill in and return the Oswestry Score Questionnaires thus providing extremely valuable information for surgeon education and decision making.
While we very much want every patient to enter studies, we do point out that your participation is voluntary and you may of course decide, after discussion with your surgeon, not to enter. If you do undertake to help us, it is most important we can keep in touch with you on a yearly basis over the years following your operation, and that you tell us of any difficulties or revisions your joint may have.
The information that follows is designed to help you understand the treatment you are about to receive. I hope you will find it useful.

Yours Sincerely,

James Richardson

Professor of Orthopaedics