The RNOH is an NHS highly specialised commissioned centre for the diagnosis and treatment of patients of all ages with confirmed or suspected bone or soft tissue tumours, including sarcomas. These include benign and malignant tumours including bone and soft tissue sarcomas and metastatic bone disease.
Our service is an important part of the London Sarcoma Service which provides multidisciplinary care including radiotherapy and chemotherapy for patients with bone and soft tissue sarcomas.
Our team are leaders in the diagnosis and treatment of bone and soft tissue tumours, including limb-sparing surgery for cancer. We offer reconstructions including endoprosthetic reconstruction, biological reconstruction, and bone grafting. The clinical team includes expert clinical nurses, physiotherapists and occupational therapists.
Rehabilitation guidelines for orthopaedic oncology patients can be found here
The RNOH team is an important part of the London Sarcoma Service, one of the largest sarcoma services in Europe with an international reputation for providing high quality care to patients with bone and soft tissue tumours, including sarcoma. It provides a comprehensive service to patients of all ages from the first consultation, through investigation, to treatment, rehabilitation and follow-up, seeing about 500 new patients with sarcoma each year.
For more information please see the London Sarcoma Service website.
The services offered at RNOH include:
- Specialist surgery for pelvic, spinal and extremity bone and soft tissue tumours, including complex limb reconstruction and amputation
- Specialist diagnostic pathology and radiology services
- Rehabilitation including physiotherapy and occupational therapy.
The London Sarcoma Service is part of the London and South East Sarcoma Network
- Patients with sarcomas in the spine or spinal cord compression should be referred directly to the RNOH spinal team.
- Patients with suspected sarcomas in non-extremity/trunk sites (abdomen, gynaecological, head and neck, breast) should be referred directly to UCLH.
- Referrals from Primary Care should be made using the NHS e-Referral Service system, e-RS. Guidance can be found here. We do not accept patients without imaging unless there is a high risk of sarcoma (eg a history of confirmed sarcoma, fungating tumours) and the referral is discussed with the on-call team. Referrals should be made to Wood Green CDC or a local diagnostic service if there is uncertainty.
- Referrals to the RNOH Orthopaedic Oncology service from secondary and tertiary care should be made online using Pathpoint. We routinely ask for more information or further imaging and so it is important that you respond to emails generated by Pathpoint. To refer a patient use the 'PATHPOINT' link (within your Secure hospital network) and follow the steps below:
- Register with your personal NHS email address for a PATHPOINT account to manage your referral/s
- Login to your account with your credentials by clicking the 'PATHPOINT' link
- Input your referring organisation, and patient PID details
- Click the drop down list of referral pathway forms and select "Orthopaedic oncology" and click "Go to referral form" to launch the form
- Fill in all fields of the Tertiary Sarcoma Unit referral form and click "Save Orthopaedic oncology"
If your referral is clinically urgent, please contact the on-call team via the switchboard on 020 3947 0100.
Consultant secretaries
Heena Ahmed – Patient Care Navigator - First contact for patients and referrers
020 3947 0182 / heena.
Mitika Nandha – Secretary to Sarcoma CNS Team
020 8909 5878 / m.nandha@nhs.net
Jan Wakeman-Blue - Secretary to Mr Pollock
020 3947 0484 / janblue
Claire Valiji - Secretary to Prof Gerrand & Ms Faimali
020 3947 0485 / claire.
Veronica White - Secretary to Ms Havard & Prof Briggs
020 3947 0491 / veronicawhite
Ruth Thompson - Secretary to Mr Bayliss
020 3947 0483 / ruth.thomson5@nhs.net
Nurse Consultant
Julie Woodford – Nurse Consultant in Cancer and Supportive Care
020 3947 0458 / julie.
Mitika Nandha - Secretary to CNS team / Julie Woodford
020 8909 5878 / m.
Clinical Nurse Specialists
Claire O’Sullivan - Clinical Nurse Specialist (Children and Adolescents)
020 8909 5679 / Claire.o’sullivan1@nhs.net
Jo Coleman – Advanced Nurse Practitioner
020 3947 0458 / joannecoleman
Lucy Denny – Clinical Nurse Specialist
020 3947 0495 / lucy.
Louise Gillings – Clinical Nurse Specialist
020 8909 5282 / louise.
Jilpa Modessa – Clinical Nurse Specialist
020 8909 5880 / jilpa.modessa@nhs.net
Ruth Shea - Clinical Nurse Specialist
020 8909 1495 / ruth.
Simone Simon - Clinical Nurse Specialist
020 3947 0458 / simone.
Nicki Willis – Clinical Nurse Specialist
020 8909 5765 / nicolawillis@nhs.net
Mary Ughumu - Associate Nurse Specialist
020 3947 0458 / mary.
Anne Gachie - Paediatric Associate Nurse Specialist
020 8909 5769 / anne.
Therapies
Physiotherapy Clinical Specialist in Orthopaedic Oncology (Limb Salvage) / Therapy Team Lead Orthopaedic Oncology Service.
Senior Occupational Therapist in Orthopaedic Oncology (Limb Salvage),
Email: rnoh.
020 8909 5830
Physiotherapy Clinical Specialist in Amputee Rehabilitation/ Therapy Team Lead Amputee Rehabilitation Service.
Senior Occupational Therapist in Amputee Rehabilitation.
Email: rno-tr.
020 8909 5505
Sarcoma
- Mr Will Aston - Surgical treatment of arthritis, including cartilage transplantation, arthroscopic knee surgery, knee and hip replacement surgery, complex hip and...
- Mr Lee Bayliss - Orthopaedic oncology, sarcoma, and reconstruction
- Professor Craig Gerrand - Bone and soft tissue tumour surgery, bone and soft tissue sarcoma, metastatic bone disease
- Ms Hel Havard
- Mr Rob Pollock - Bone and soft tissue tumours, hip and knee replacement, metastatic bone disease.
- Mr Jonathan Perera - Bone and soft tissue tumours, hip and knee replacement, metastatic bone disease
- Ms Martina Faimali