Wexham Park Hospital

Wexham Park Hospital is a large NHS hospital which 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.^[1]

The hospital is managed by Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, one of the top performing NHS trusts in the United Kingdom.^[2][3][4] Sir Andrew Morris is the chief executive of Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust.

Geography

The hospital is in a projection of the borough of Slough, containing only the hospital and part of the large northern tract of Slough that was traditionally in Wexham, Berkshire, which also as such gives its name to one of Slough's electoral wards, Wexham Lea. The site adjoins urban and suburban housing to the south, Stoke Green cricket ground to the south-west past a relatively small lake and well-established School of Nursing. The east also enjoys its own lake beside which a group of 41 staggered terraced houses which has been ceded from the hospital's land in the south-east corner of square grounds. The south and west of the hospital square is formed by roads, with the mentioned school of nursing and accommodation forming having pedestrian access only to the main car parks and having its own vehicular access along the southern periphery. Various access points are on these two roads however the main access is off east-west Wexham Park Lane turning north and then turning east, with all of the public car parks.

Plastic surgery

Wexham Park Hospital is home to a renowned plastic surgery unit with a wealth of history.^[5] Founded by pioneering British plastic surgeon Stewart Harrison^[6] (who himself had been trained by Cambridge alumnus and world-renowned plastic surgeon Harold Gillies), on opening in 1966 it rapidly became known as a major UK centre for hand surgery and had the only accredited senior registrar post in hand surgery nationally.^[5] 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.^[6] Harrison, a graduate of Glasgow University (MB ChB 1935^[7]), was a founding member of the British Society for Surgery of the Hand (BSSH)^[8] 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)^[9]) in 1976.^[6] Harrison died on 12th May 2011 aged 98. 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.^[10]

See also

• Healthcare in Berkshire
• List of hospitals in England

References

External links

• http://www.fhft.nhs.uk

Coordinates: 51°31′55″N 0°34′34″W / 51.532°N 0.576°W / 51.532; -0.576