Presentation to West CheshireGP Patient Participation Group

Workshop

Ken Hoskisson, ChairmanJulie Riley, Divisional Director of Operations Neurology

Liverpool

Where is The Walton Centre?

The Walton Centre

The Walton CentreSpecialist Neuroscience Trust

• Neurosurgery• Neurology• Specialist Pain Medicine• Specialist Spinal Services• Neuropsychology• Rehabilitation• Specialist diagnostic services• Major Trauma Centre Collaborative

What makes us special?•Only specialist Neurosciences NHS

Trust in the UK

•Perform highest number of

neurosurgery procedures in the UK

•Most comprehensive Neuroradiology

Department in the UK

•First, and largest, Pain Management

Programme in Europe

•Spinal Unit in Europe’s top 10% and the

largest and most comprehensive in the UK.

Our patients and staff• 3.5 million people in catchment area• 24,000 out-patients• 2,500 elective surgical cases• 2,000 emergency surgical cases• 500 new patients a year with primary

and secondary brain tumours• 300 day case procedures• 183 beds (20 critical care and

29 acute rehabilitation)• 30 consultant neurologists • 17 consultant anaesthetists• 16 consultant neurosurgeons• 16 satellite hospitals in the north west• 10 wards• 7 pain consultants• 3 professors

Leading edge clinical services•Clean air theatres•Buzz imaging technology•Major centre for awake craniotomy•Video-telemetry diagnostics•Intra-operative ultrasound•DBS for movement disorder in epilepsy•Immunoflourescence-guided surgery•Stereotactic radiosurgery•Novalis TX

Neuroradiology

• 4 MRI scanners• 1 spiral CT scanner• 16,000 MRI scans a year• 10,000 CT scans a year• Planning for a 5th

intraoperative MRI• Coil 220 aneurysms a year

Neuro-rehabilitation

• Network centre for north west of England

• Major Trauma Centre Collaborative

• 29 beds including 9 hyper-acute rehabilitation beds

The 5-year strategyAchieving our Strategic Objectives

To be an employer of choice and recruit excellent employees

Enhance our Neurosurgery, Anaesthetic and Pain Services

Develop the strength of our image and reputation

Develop our Research and Innovation Services

Enhance our Rehabilitation Services

Enhance our Neurology Services

Improve our quality of care

Develop our Centre

Strong finances

Investing in our future• £40 million

development plan

• Relatives accommodation

• State-of-the-art Rehabilitation Unit