WELSH ORTHOPAEDIC SOCIETY ANNUAL MEETING JUNE 2026
Huge congratulations to everyone involved in this year’s successful meetings in Swansea Arena. So many highlights…….
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Reputation 900 Award
Mr Williams is delighted to see Werndale Hospital being recognised in Reputation 900 awards
Booking an appointment online now available
Please follow the following link to book an appointment online with Mr Williams https://www.circlehealthgroup.co.uk/consultants/rhodri-ll-williams
National Joint Registry Profile
Click here to see Mr Williams high volume arthroplasty activity profile https://surgeonprofile.njrcentre.org.uk/SurgeonProfile?gmccode=4584755
Welsh Orthopaedic Association Annual Meeting, Vale Hotel, Cardiff , 2025
It was a great for Mr Williams to attend the Welsh Orthopaedic Association meeting in his role as Honorary Treasurer. Congratulations were given to the local organising team. In Mr Williams opinion, it was one of the best meetings in recent memory! .https://www.welshorthopaedics.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Welsh-Orthopaedic-Society-Annual-Meeting-2025-agenda_FINAL_2.pdf
BOA conference 2024
It was a pleasure for Mr. Williams to attend BOA conference in Birmingham this year. Lots of excellent presentations and an exceptional Congress dinner.
BRITISH ORTHOPAEDIC ASSOCIATION (BOA) COUNCIL MEMBER APPOINTMENT
Mr. Williams is delighted to begin his tenure on the BOA council in London to represent Welsh orthopaedic issues and challenges. https://www.boa.ac.uk/about-us/governance/council.html
Patients With Un-Displaced Or Displaced Intra Capsular Proximal Femur Fractures Do Not Represent A Different Patient Group And Have Similar Short And Long Term Mortality
Mr. Williams is delighted to be an author of another publication regarding management of hip fractures. Please click on this link to read more.
Albumin is an Independent Predictor of up to 9-Year Mortality for Intracapsular Femoral Neck Fractures Aiding in Decision-Making for Total Hip Arthroplasty or Hemiarthroplasty
Mr Williams is pleased to be an author of a recent USA based publication, The Journal of Arthroplasty, to aid clinical management decisions of patients with acute neck of femur fractures.https://www.arthroplastyjournal.org/article/S0883-5403(22)00756-2/abstracthttps://www.arthroplastyjournal.org/article/S0883-5403(22)00756-2/abstract
New Ward Opens at Werndale Hospital
Mr Williams helps open the New Werndale Hospital extension
MEET THE CONSULTANT
Please follow link to see Mr Williams profile on the Werndale facebook page .follow link
The hidden cost of COVID
As the NHS in Wales deals with one of its biggest ever challenges in the form of COVID-19, Mr Williams is concerned what it means for the long term care of patients. BBC Wales Investigates those dealing with life and death situations including delay to orthopaedic elective surgery and asks if more could have been […]
The surgical and non-surgical challenges of COVID-19
Mr Williams contributes his opinion to an article by George Winter in this months Royal College Surgeons Bulletin Magazine about the surgical and non surgical impact of COVID-19.
BBC News – Covid: NHS Wales routine surgery waiting list up seven times in year
The list of people waiting for routine surgery in Wales is nearly six times longer than a year ago with 57,445 awaiting an operation, figures show. The Royal College of Surgeons has called on Welsh Government to ramp up the development of so-called “green zones” or “Covid-light” areas in hospitals. These are wards with stringent […]
New state of the art MRI Scanner at Werndale
BMI Werndale Hospital is delighted that the installation of its new MRI has been completed successfully! The Siemens Magnetom Altea 1.5 open bore system is the first of its generation in Wales and only the second installed in the United Kingdom. The Altea has optimal image quality, shorter scanning times and the atmosphere and noise […]
Thank you Operating Department Practitioners!
Today is National ODP to recognise the profession, which is little-known outside of the medical world, but much appreciated my Mr Williams ODPs work alongside anaesthetists and surgeons to look after a patient through the phases of anaesthetics, surgery and recovery. This is picture of some of the fantastic team at BMI Werndale.
BMI Werndale in partnership with NHS Wales to help fight coronavirus
BMI Werndale are supporting the fight against COVID-19 and have agreed a formal partnership with NHS Wales to support the national effort to tackle COVID-19 by offering all our bed capacity, facilities and staff. This agreement provides additional capacity for urgent and important treatments that normally takes place in NHS hospitals. BMI Werndale Hospital, Executive […]
Coronavirus: Behind the scenes on a Covid-19 ward at Prince Phillip Hospital, Llanelli
Urgent and widespread changes have had to be made to the provision of healthcare within the NHS and independent sector. This includes major implications to elective and trauma services. Mr Williams is very proud of the way his team and all NHS colleagues have collaborated to fight this disease at this difficult time. Here is […]