Wexham Park Hospital

Wexham Park Hospital is a large NHS hospital in Wexham, Berkshire. It has been managed by Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust since 2014.[1][2] Sir Andrew Morris is the chief executive of Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust.[3]

Wexham Park Hospital
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
Wexham Park Hospital
Shown in Buckinghamshire
Geography
LocationWexham, Berkshire, England
Coordinates51.532°N 0.576°W / 51.532; -0.576
Organisation
Care systemNHS England
Services
Emergency departmentYes
History
Opened1965
Links
Websitewww.fhft.nhs.uk/your-hospitals/wexham-park

History

The hospital was built on the site of a Victorian mansion known as Wexham Park and was completed in 1965.[4][5] The design led to an award from the Royal Institute of British Architects.[4] An expanded recovery centre was opened by Sophie Christiansen in June 2013[6] and a new accident and emergency department opened on 3 April 2019.[7]

Services

The hospital provides emergency, trauma and orthopaedic surgery, plastic and reconstructive surgery, paediatric, coronary care and maternity services, amongst others, in Wexham, Berkshire, United Kingdom. It is an associate teaching hospital for the London and Oxford postgraduate medical and dental education organisations, receiving fully qualified nationally appointed trainees (foundation, GP, core and specialty) who are undertaking further postgraduate training in a variety of specialties.[8]

Founded by pioneering British plastic surgeon Stewart Harrison[9] (who himself had been trained by Cambridge alumnus and world-renowned plastic surgeon Harold Gillies), on opening in 1966, the plastic surgery unit rapidly became known as a major UK centre for hand surgery and had the only accredited senior registrar post in hand surgery nationally.[10] In 1949, Harrison and Gillies had performed a pioneering operation to reconstruct the face of a patient born with a congenitally recessed maxilla. This complex operation marked the beginnings of the speciality of craniofacial surgery. Among the observers was French plastic surgeon Paul Tessier, who went on to refine the technique for the treatment of severely deformed children.[9] Harrison, a graduate of Glasgow University (MB ChB 1935[11]), was a founding member of the British Society for Surgery of the Hand (BSSH) and served as president of the society in 1972, and as president of the British Association of Plastic Surgeons (now British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons (BAPRAS)) in 1976.[9][12] Oxford graduate Simon Kay, a notable plastic surgeon, professor of hand surgery at Leeds University and former BAPRAS and BSSH president, also trained within the Wexham Park plastic surgery department. Simon Kay performed the UK's first hand transplant operation in 2012 at Leeds General Infirmary.[13]

See also

References
  1. "Four-county NHS trust launched". BBC News. 1 October 2014.
  2. "Wexham Park Hospital". Care Quality Commission. Retrieved 21 August 2020.
  3. Donnelly, Laura (2 January 2016). "NHS hospital bosses given pay rises worth more than a nurse's annual salary". The Telegraph. Retrieved 6 December 2016.
  4. "Wexham". Slough online. Retrieved 10 November 2018.
  5. "We find out more about Wexham Park Hospital's volunteers". Windsor Express. 28 July 2012. Retrieved 10 November 2018.
  6. "Hospital honour for Sophie Christiansen". Get Reading. 6 June 2013. Retrieved 10 November 2018.
  7. "Wexham Park Hospital to relocate to £49 million assessment centre". Slough Express. 2 April 2019. Retrieved 11 July 2019.
  8. "The Berkshire Scheme". Oxford Deanery. Health Education Thames Valley. Retrieved 6 December 2016.
  9. "Stewart Harrison". The Telegraph. 7 July 2011. Retrieved 6 December 2016.
  10. Saad, Magdy N. (1987). "The history of the Plastic Surgery Unit at Wexham Park Hospital". British Journal of Plastic Surgery. 40 (6): 655–6. doi:10.1016/0007-1226(87)90166-4. PMID 3318989.
  11. "List of Registered Medical Practitioners". General Medical Council. Retrieved 6 December 2016.
  12. "Harrison, Stewart Hamilton". Plarr's Lives of the Fellows Online. Royal College of Surgeons of England. Retrieved 6 December 2016.
  13. Gallagher, James (4 January 2013). "UK's first hand transplant operation". BBC News. Retrieved 6 December 2016.
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