Hospitals within Oxfordshire

The Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust comprises the John Radcliffe Hospital, the Churchill Hospital and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.

The Trust provides a wide range of acute clinical services including an accident and emergency service, general medicine and surgery, paediatrics and obstetrics and gynaecology. It also provides a number of speciality services including cardiology, cardiac surgery, a special care nursery, a regional transplant unit, dermatology, oncology, clinical genetics, urology and infectious diseases. Also it houses a unit for palliative care.

The new West Wing at the John Radcliffe Hospital, which was completed in December 2006, houses the neurosciences departments, otolaryngopharyngology, ophthalmology, plus units for the care of the elderly.

Psychiatry services in Oxford are currently provided at the Warneford and Park Hospitals, while orthopaedic services are based largely at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre NHS Trust, which also provides a rehabilitation service and is the main centre for rheumatology and metabolic bone disease.

More information please visit: www.medsci.ox.ac.uk/study/medicine/electives/hospitals