Spinal services

The Centre for Spinal Studies and Surgery (CSSS ) is based within the Queen’s Medical Centre of Nottingham University Hospitals (NUH) NHS Trust. NUH is a large university hospital trust, the regional Major Trauma Centre, and a tertiary referral unit for all aspects of complex spinal pathology.

The CSSS comprises the spinal ward (D8), our same-day emergency care unit (NSAU), specialist spinal theatres and the spinal outpatients department. This unit is led by Spines Specialty Management Team consisting of: consultant head of service, lead practitioner, matron, and specialty general manager. All of our consultants exclusively perform spinal surgery and have a background in either orthopaedic surgery or neurosurgery.

As a multi-disciplinary team, the CSSS provides expert spinal care for rare and highly complex spinal conditions in both adult and paediatric services. Each of the spinal consultants has an area of special interest such as paediatric spinal deformity, adult spinal deformity, neuromuscular deformity, degenerative conditions of the spine, spinal oncology and primary bone tumours, spinal osteoporosis and spinal trauma.