The Walton Centre NHS Trust is a hospital in Fazakerley

Fazakerley

Fazakerley is a suburb of north Liverpool, Merseyside, England, and a Liverpool City Council Ward. At the 2001 Census it had a population of 15,062...

, Liverpool

Liverpool

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, England

England

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. It is the UK's only NHS Trust

NHS Trust

A National Health Service trust provides services on behalf of the National Health Service in England and NHS Wales.The trusts are not trusts in the legal sense but are in effect public sector corporations. Each trust is headed by a board consisting of executive and non-executive directors, and is...

 for neuroscience

Neuroscience

Neuroscience is the scientific study of the nervous system. Traditionally, neuroscience has been seen as a branch of biology. However, it is currently an interdisciplinary science that collaborates with other fields such as chemistry, computer science, engineering, linguistics, mathematics,...

 and neurosurgery

Neurosurgery

Neurosurgery is the medical specialty concerned with the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of disorders which affect any portion of the nervous system including the brain, spine, spinal cord, peripheral nerves, and extra-cranial cerebrovascular system.-In the United States:In...

. It provides services in neurology

Neurology

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, neurosurgery

Neurosurgery

Neurosurgery is the medical specialty concerned with the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of disorders which affect any portion of the nervous system including the brain, spine, spinal cord, peripheral nerves, and extra-cranial cerebrovascular system.-In the United States:In...

 and pain

Pain

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relief and carries out research in these fields.

The Walton Centre achieved NHS Trust status in 1992. It serves a population of approximately 3.5 million people from the Merseyside, North West, Cheshire, North Wales and the Isle of Man catchment area. 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.

Many of the Consultants deliver clinics in a large number of satellite hospitals throughout the geographical area that the hospital serves.

The wards in the hospital are all named after pioneering neurosurgeons in the 20th & 21st Century.

Criticism

The hospital has been criticized for not offering treatments available in the United States.

There have been allegations that a surgeon at the hospital removed brain tissue for research purposes without the patient's consent. The samples were used to test a new treatment for brain diseases on which the surgeon was joint owner of the patent.

In 2006, the hospital was identified as "the most dangerous hospital in Merseyside and Cheshire for health workers".