Wexham Park and Heatherwood Hospital
Trust: Heatherwood and Wexham Park Hospitals NHS TrustAddress:
Wexham Park Hospital
Wexham
Slough
Berkshire
SL2 4HL
Hospital Tel: 01753 633000
Anaesthetic Dept Tel: 01753 633185
Anaesthetic Dept Fax: 01753 634460
Wexham Park Hospital, Slough, the principal hospital in the Trust, is a busy District General Hospital. It provides services for acute medicine and surgery, emergency medicine, ENT, gynaecology, haematology, obstetrics, orthopaedics and trauma, plastic surgery, psychiatry and urology. There is a new theatre block at Wexham Park with 9 state of the art theatres including 3 with Laminar Flow. This theatre block also houses seminar rooms with extensive teaching facilities for presentations. There is a new 12 bedded ITU/HDU close to the theatre suite which has full time dedicated consultant cover. There is also an active invasive cardiology unit undertaking angiography, permanent pacemakers and implantable defibrillators. There will soon be an angioplasty service. The Obstetric Unit has 4000 deliveries per year.
Heatherwood Hospital, Ascot provides services for elective orthopaedics, urology, general and day-care surgery and a low risk Obstetric Unit. There is also a Chronic Pain Clinic and services are provided for acute medicine and psychiatry. Heatherwood Hospital has a suite of 5 operating theatres with two dedicated to orthopaedics and one to day-case surgery. The obstetric theatre is within the Delivery Suite. All emergency anaesthetics at Heatherwood Hospital are provided by career grade anaesthetists.
King Edward VII Hospital, Windsor is purely an Ophthalmological Centre as far as the provision of anaesthetic services is concerned.
In total there are 94 operating lists including 10 emergency lists, 8 opthalmic lists, 2 community dental lists, 4 ECT sessions, 1 paediatric oncology session, 1 paediatric MRI session and 7 chronic pain relief sessions.
There is an active teaching programme and excellent facilities at the Post Graduate Medical Education Centre.
