Wexham Park Hospital
Wexham Park Hospital is a large NHS hospital in Wexham, Buckinghamshire. It is managed by Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, one of the top performing NHS trusts in the United Kingdom. Sir Andrew Morris is the chief executive of Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust.History
The hospital was built on the site of a Victorian mansion known as Wexham Park and was completed in 1965. The design led to an award from the Royal Institute of British Architects. An expanded recovery centre was opened by Sophie Christiansen in June 2013 and a new accident and emergency department opened on 3 April 2019.Services
The hospital provides emergency, trauma and orthopaedic surgery, plastic and reconstructive surgery, paediatric, coronary care and maternity services, amongst others, in Wexham, Buckinghamshire, 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 who are undertaking further postgraduate training in a variety of specialties.
It is home to a renowned plastic surgery unit with a wealth of history. Founded by pioneering British plastic surgeon Stewart Harrison, 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. 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. Harrison, a graduate of Glasgow University, was a founding member of the British Society for Surgery of the Hand and served as president of the society in 1972, and as president of the British Association of Plastic Surgeons in 1976. Harrison died on 12 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.
