Updated 19 August 2019
The Walton Centre is the only specialist hospital trust in the UK dedicated to providing comprehensive neurology, neurosurgery, spinal and pain management services.
They serve a catchment area of 3.5 million people across Merseyside, Cheshire, Lancashire, Greater Manchester, the Isle of Man and North Wales and beyond. The trust has service partnerships with 18 NHS Hospitals across the area they serve.
Situated in the Fazakerley area of North Liverpool the trust has provides services to a population of 3.5 million people across the North West, Isle of Man and North Wales. In addition, due to an international reputation in some areas of expertise, referrals are received from other geographical areas of the UK.
Care and treatment is provided from two buildings on the same site; The Walton Centre main building and the purpose-built Sid Watkins Building, which was opened in 2015. There are 192 beds, 123 of which are neurosurgery,29 neurology and 40 for rehabilitation.
The trust performs around 3,000 elective surgical cases, 2,000 emergency surgical cases and 400 day-case procedures each year and operates a network of almost 50 satellite clinics at hospitals and GP practice sites around the region under its neuro network initiative.
The neuroradiology service is the most comprehensive in the UK with four MRI scanners, including an open scanner, two biplane intervention rooms, and advanced CT scanner.
The trust hosts the Cheshire and Merseyside Rehabilitation Network and has a dedicated Neuroscience Research centre.
Approximately 1,300 staff work for The Walton Centre and more than 100,000 patients are treated each year with conditions including head and spinal trauma injuries, tumours of the central nervous system, neurovascular diseases, epilepsy, pain, multiple sclerosis, motor neurone disease, and chronic neuropathic pain.
The trust was last inspected in April 2016, it was rated as outstanding for effective and caring, good for safe, responsive and well-led and outstanding overall.