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News from Mr. Williams practice

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

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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.

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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

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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.

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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 […]

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30 years of BMI Werndale Hospital

Mr Williams is proud to have contributed towards the advancing the care available at BMI Werndale by introducing robotic arthroplasty technology to the hospital. A closer look at changes over the past three decades can be seen here.

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Mr Williams publishes a plan to make efficiency savings for the NHS during periods of snow and ice

In an article written by Mr Williams and colleagues, “Increased fracture incidence in snow and ice conditions; a model for escalation.” published in the International Journal of Health Planning and Management this month, a proposal on how to deal with a surge of trauma cases during snow and icy conditions is made. Several studies have […]

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