Medicine for the Elderly - Derby
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Medicine for the Elderly - Derby
The Department of Medicine for the Elderly offers inpatient and outpatient services to older people at Royal Derby Hospital, Florence Nightingale Community Hospital and across the community.
We cater particularly for the frail elderly or those with many medical problems. We provide outreach services to local community hospitals.
We have specialist clinics for falls and Parkinson’s Disease (winners of the Hospital Doctor Parkinson’s Disease Team of the Year 2007, and a National Parkinson’s Foundation Centre of Excellence).
Outpatient services - Derby
Our services:
We provide the following services:
- General medical outpatient clinics
- Outreach clinics
- Specialist falls clinic
- Syncope (blackout) and dizziness clinics
- Multidisciplinary Parkinson's clinic
Clinic locations
Outpatient clinics
- Royal Derby Hospital
- Florence Nightingale Community Hospital
Outreach clinics
- Ripley Hospital
- Ilkeston Hospital
- St Oswald's Hospital
Community hospital rehabilitation
- Babington Hospital
- St Oswald's Hospital
Consultations in the patient's home
- At GP's request
Contact us
Department of Medicine for the Elderly
Level 4, Royal Derby Hospital
Uttoxeter Road
Derby
DE22 8NE
Telephone: 01332 787 401
Inpatient services - Derby
Our services
We provide the following inpatient services:
- Services for the frail elderly, including those
- with acute confused states
- who have fallen
- with multiple medical problems
- with imparied fuctional ability
- Ortho-geriatric liaison (for patients with broken hips)
- Old-age psychiatry liaison
Locations
Royal Derby Hospital
We have 112 acute Care of the Elderly inpatient beds:
- Ward 311
- Ward 401
- Ward 405
- Ward 406