Orthopaedic care in Canterbury

Clear answers about hip, knee and shoulder problems.

Specialist assessment and treatment for patients across Canterbury, and a straightforward referral pathway for GPs and physiotherapists.

Where would you like to start?

A patient and a referring practitioner want different things from this website, so it splits here rather than asking you to find your own way.

  • I'm a patient

    What to expect from a consultation, and how to ask for an appointment.

    • Preparing for a visit
    • Conditions we see
    • Requesting an appointment
  • I'm a referrer

    How a referral reaches the practice, and what a referral form would carry.

    • The referral pathway
    • What to include
    • Sending a referral

Areas we treat

Each of these opens the conditions library filtered to that part of the body.

How we work

Specimen page. The text below describes what a finished page would carry — it is not clinical information and has not been reviewed by a clinician.

How a problem is looked at

A real practice describes its approach to assessment here. That is a clinical statement, so it is written with the practice and signed off by a qualified reviewer before publication rather than drafted for a demonstration.

How options are weighed

What a practice says about the order in which options are considered is a claim about treatment sequence, and sits inside the same review. Nothing is claimed here in its place.

How a patient reaches the practice

A referral route, whether direct enquiries are accepted, and what follows are operational facts about a service. This service does not exist, so none of them are stated — §4.10 rules out inventing an operating history for a medical practice, and the ban is not scoped to one page.

About the practice

Aoraki Orthopaedics is a fictional Canterbury practice, built by Iceni Web Design to show how a specialist site can make complicated material easy to move around.

It is written in the practice voice throughout. No practitioner is named, no history is invented, and nothing on the site claims a qualification, registration or affiliation.

Ripple patterns in shallow water on a river flat

Where we see patients

Christchurch

  • Central city
  • Riccarton
  • Papanui
  • Hornby

North Canterbury

  • Rangiora
  • Kaiapoi

Selwyn and mid-Canterbury

  • Rolleston
  • Ashburton

Consultations are held in the areas listed above. This is a fictional practice, so no clinic, address or facility is named anywhere on this website.

Choose the pathway that fits your visit