News and events

Event details. Date: Thursday 18 October 2018. Time: 6.30pm. Venue: Spire Parkway Hospital. Book early to avoid disappointment.

When Jennifer Hagon started getting pains in her hip she made all kinds of lifestyle changes in order to cope with the situation. However, after seeing Mr Makrides at Spire Parkway and learning she needed a hip replacement, she opted for a new muscle sparing technique which would mean a quicker and more comfortable recovery period.

September is breast cancer awareness month. Are you checking your breasts for any abnormalities?

We wish our Matron, Pat Munday, all the best in her retirement, after 30 years in the nursing profession.

When Jason snapped the tendon that connects his bicep to his arm during an arm wrestling competition, he sought help from Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Mr Shyamalan at Spire Parkway Hospital.

A pectus condition is the name given to a group of chest conditions in which several ribs and the breastbone grow differently. There are two main types of pectus conditions: pectus excavatum (sunken chest) and pectus carinatum (pigeon chest). Consultant Thoracic Surgeon Mr Babu Naidu explains.

We all know we should wear sun cream when on the beach but few of us wear it everyday as part of our daily routine. Lorry drivers are increasingly being treated for skin damage and skin cancer on their right ear after lengthy exposure to sun through the drivers side window.

A year after severe pain forced Stephen Sharp to abandon a climb up Mount Snowdon, he was back on Wales’s highest mountain just nine weeks after having a hip replacement operation!

Over 21,000 women in the UK are diagnosed with a gynaecological cancer every year* but awareness of symptoms is still very poor according to leading cancer charities. Now, as part of Gynaecological Cancer Awareness Month, which runs throughout September, campaigners are calling on people to open up and discuss the subject – and they mean men as well as women.

Results of a new survey carried out for The Urology Foundation (TUF), has revealed that 70% of people in the UK do not know from which age a man should be tested for prostate cancer and that only one in five men aged 18-24 have checked their testicles for lumps in the last year! Now, as part of Urology Awareness Month, which runs throughout September, TUF is hoping to increase knowledge and awareness about various conditions while also focusing on prevention, treatment and management.