Oxford Hospitals
Trusts:
Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust
Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre NHS Trust
Addresses:
Nuffield Department of Anaesthetics
Tel: 01865 221590/1
Fax: 01865 220027
The Nuffield Department of Anaesthetics comprises closely associated University and NHS departments, and is one of the largest anaesthetic departments in the country. The Nuffield Department provides anaesthetic and critical care services to all four of the Oxford Hospitals.
The John Radcliffe Hospital is the principal teaching hospital with a main complex of 10 operating theatres and adjacent recovery and critical care areas, including the Adult and Paediatric Intensive Care Units and the Cardiothoracic Critical Care Unit. The Emergency Medicine Department and Trauma Service are also based here. The Women's Centre at the John Radcliffe has 2 Gynaecology theatres and 3 Obstetric theatres, and there are over 6500 deliveries per year. Neurosciences, ENT, plastic and craniofacial surgery and the Oxford Eye Hospital have now moved from the Radcliffe Infirmary to the new purpose built West Wing. The West Wing has 14 operating theatres and the Neurosciences Intensive Care Unit. The new purpose built Children's Hospital is also on the John Radcliffe site, and a new Cardiac Centre opened in 2009.
The Churchill Hospital has 10 operating theatres, the Churchill Intensive Care Unit, the Renal and Chest Units, and the new Cancer Centre which opened in 2009. Current specialties include gynae-oncology, urology, transplant, breast cancer, upper/lower GI and bariatric surgery, and radiotherapy. The Pain Relief Unit is also based at the Churchill Hospital.
The Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre has 6 theatres for elective orthopaedic surgery, the Bone Infection Unit and Bone Tumour Service.






