Wexham Park Hospital

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]

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.[9]

It is home to a renowned plastic surgery unit with a wealth of history.[10] Founded by pioneering British plastic surgeon Stewart Harrison[11] (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.[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.[11] Harrison, a graduate of Glasgow University (MB ChB 1935[12]), 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.[11][13] 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.[14]

• Healthcare in Berkshire
• List of hospitals in England

• Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
• British Society for Surgery of the Hand
• British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons