Walton Centre
Coordinates: 53°28′00″N 2°55′52″W / 53.46654°N 2.9310°W / 53.46654; -2.9310 The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust, also known as The Walton Centre for Neurology and Neurosurgery, is a large neurology hospital located in the suburb of Fazakerley, in the city of Liverpool, England. It is the only specialist neurosciences NHS trust in the UK dedicated to providing brain and spine care and pain management. The majority of patients originate from Merseyside, Cheshire, North Wales, Lancashire and the Isle of Man, but for some specialist treatments of complex disorders the Centre sees patients from all parts of the United Kingdom, referred by their general practitioner (GP) or other hospitals.
The Walton Centre originally provided services from Walton Hospital (since demolished) on Rice Lane in Walton, Liverpool, from which the centre takes its name. The hospital achieved NHS Trust status in 1992, and gained NHS Foundation Trust status in 2009. The Trust’s catchment population is over 3.5 million and is drawn from Merseyside, Cheshire, parts of Lancashire and Greater Manchester, the Isle of Man and North Wales. The model of care operated by The Centre aims to ensure that the benefits of highly specialised care are taken as close as possible to the homes of the patients.
The hospital shares the same site as Aintree University Hospital. Together, both hospitals, alongside the Royal Liverpool University Hospital in the city centre, act as designated major trauma centres for the Merseyside and Cheshire regions.
The wards in the hospital are all named after pioneering neurosurgeons in the 20th & 21st Century.
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