Wexham Park Hospital

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Wexham Park Hospital
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
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Wexham Park Hospital
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Geography
Location Slough, Berkshire, England
Coordinates 51°31′55″N0°34′34″W / 51.532°N 0.576°W / 51.532; -0.576
Organisation
Care system NHS England
Services
Emergency department Yes
History
Opened1965
Links
Website www.fhft.nhs.uk/your-hospitals/wexham-park

Wexham Park Hospital is a large NHS hospital in Slough, [1] [2] Berkshire. It has been managed by Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust since 2014. [1] [3] Neil Dardis has been the Trust's chief executive since 2018. [4]

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History

The hospital was built on the site of a Victorian mansion known as Wexham Park and was completed in 1965. [5] [6] The design led to an award from the Royal Institute of British Architects. [5] An expanded recovery centre was opened by Sophie Christiansen in June 2013 [7] and a new accident and emergency department opened on 3 April 2019. [8]

Services

The hospital provides services including emergency, trauma and orthopaedic surgery, plastic and reconstructive surgery, paediatric, coronary care and maternity services. It is an associate teaching hospital for the London and Oxford postgraduate medical and dental education organisations. It receives fully qualified nationally appointed trainees who are undertaking postgraduate training in a variety of specialties. [9]

The hospital was founded by pioneering British plastic surgeon Stewart Harrison, [10] who had trained with 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. [11] 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. [10] Harrison, a graduate of the University of Glasgow (MB ChB 1935), [12] was a founding member of the British Society for Surgery of the Hand (BSSH). In 1972, he served as the Society's President. In 1976 he was President of the British Association of Plastic Surgeons, now the British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons (BAPRAS)). [10] [13]

Notable patient

Entertainer Des O'Connor, best known for hosting Today with Des and Mel , Take Your Pick and Countdown , died there aged 88 on 14 November 2020 after a fall at his home in Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire. [14]

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