Reading Spine Clinic

Private Appointments:

Appointments should be made to via your General Practitioner or via an allied health professional, such as a physiotherapist, who has referred you with the consent of your General Practitioner.
An appointment can be made for you to see Mr McKenna in the clinic without having a letter of referral, however, a GP referral letter must reach the clinic by the time of the appointment. This is usually required by your insurance company.

If you are referred to see Mr McKenna as a new patient, you may be offered an appointment with Ms O'Connor who is an Extended Scope Physiotherapist who works alongside Mr McKenna. Ms O'Connor will see you, take a history and examination and present the findings to Mr McKenna. Mr Mckenna will then see you, re-assess you as necessary, and discuss the management plan. We feel it is beneficial to the patient to be assessed by both a Specialist Physiotherapist and Consultant Surgeon; it provides not only a second opinion at the time of assessment, but a valuable multidisciplinary approach to spinal problems and can ensure conservative management has been adequate and appropriate before undertaking more interventional management.

Out-patient clinic times (Dunedin Hospital, 16 Bath Road, Reading):

Theatre session:

Injection session: