Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre

Details

Name :

Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre

Address  :

Windmill Road
Headington

Town  :

Oxford

State  :

Oxfordshire

Country  :

UK

Post Code:

OX3 7LD

Phone  :

01865 741155

Fax  :

01865 737632

Web URL  :

Specialization
  • Histopathology
  • Neurologist
  • Orthopedics
  • Paediatrics
  • Pain Management
  • Plastic Surgery
Facilities

Total Number Of Beds : 125

Other Facilities

  • X-Ray
  • Physiotherapy


Description

About Us
We are an orthopaedic hospital providing routine and specialist orthopaedic and rheumatological services to the people of Oxfordshire Specialist services such as the treatment of bone infection and bone tumours and the rehabilitation of those with limb amputation or congenital deficiency and those with neurological disabilities are provided for patients from across the UK and abroad


History

1872 Wingfield Convalescent Home was opened on the site now occupied by the NOC It was funded by public donations principally pound1545 from Mrs Hannah Wingfield who did not live to see the project completed

1914 The Home became an auxiliary hospital to the Third Southern General Hospital at the outbreak of the first world war The increase in patients led to wooden huts being built in the grounds including orthopaedic workshops due to the nature of many of the injuries

1921 The home officially became an orthopaedic hospital

1924 The buildings were improved and the Home became an open air hospital with 125 beds and three private wards

1930 A donation of some pound70000 from William Morris later Lord Nuffield made the rebuilding of the hospital possible

1933 The Prince of Wales officially opened the WingfieldMorris Orthopaedic Hospital

1937 G R Girdlestone who treated patients during the first world war became the first British Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery in 1937

1948 The hospital became part of the newly founded NHS

1950 WingfieldMorris Orthopaedic Hospital was renamed the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre NOC It became the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre NHS Trust on 1st April 1991
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