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Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre
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- Histopathology
- Neurologist
- Orthopedics
- Paediatrics
- Pain Management
- Plastic Surgery
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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