Medical and Nursing teams from the Wessex and Greater Manchester Neuroscience Centres have worked in collaboration to build this site as it was felt that there was a need for accurate and patient friendly information to be available to our patients and their loved ones.
The Greater Manchester Neuroscience Centre, Salford, UK:
The Greater Manchester Neuroscience Centre (GMNC) is located at Salford Royal in Eccles, Salford and provides a Neuroscience service to the population of Greater Manchester (a general population of approximately 3.2 million people).
Neuro-surgical and Neuro-medical wards located on this site include;
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The Acute Stroke Unit (ASU)
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L1 Ward – Stroke Rehabilitation ward
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The Acute Neurology Unit (ANU)
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C1 Ward – Programmed Investigations Unit (PIU)
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C2 Ward – Acute Neuro-Rehabilitation Unit
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B7 Ward – Acute Neuro-surgery ward
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B8 Ward – Acute Neuro-surgery ward
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The Neurosurgical High Dependency Unit (NHDU)
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A3 ward
Other Departments within GMNC include;
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Behavioural Medicine
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Neuro-radiology
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Neuro-pathology
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Neuro-physiology
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Neuro-anaesthesia
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Neuro-psychiatry
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The Pain Centre
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Neuro-Outpatients
Currently, the medical team consist of 11 Consultant Neuro-surgeons (three of whom have a specialist interest in Neuro-vascular surgery), 17 Consultant Neurologists, five Consultants in Rehabilitation Medicine and three Consultant Neuro-radiologists who support a network of junior doctors.
A team of Specialist Nurses lead services which include;
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Multiple Sclerosis (MS)
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Epilepsy
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Stroke
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Sub-Arachnoid Haemorrhage (SAH)
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Acute Neuro-Rehabilitation
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Neuro-oncology
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Motor Neurone Disease (MND)
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and Movement Disorder including Dystonia and Parkinsons Disease (PD).
There are also four Clinical Neuro-psychologists that work closely with the medical consultants and the specialist nurses.
The Wessex Neurological Centre, Southampton, UK:
The Wessex Neurological Centre (WNC) is located at Southampton General Hospital and provides a regional service to Hampshire and Isle of Wight, Dorset, West Sussex, South Wiltshire and the Channel Islands, a population in excess of 3 million. (Previously known as Wessex)
Neuro-surgical and Neuro-medical wards located on this site include;
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NICU – Neuroscience Intensive Care Unit (including High Dependency)
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C Neuro – Acute adult Neurosurgical ward
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D Neuro - Acute adult Neurosurgical ward
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C Paeds – Acute paediatric Neurosurgical ward
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Stanley Graveson – Adult Neurology
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DCU – Day Case Unit
Other Departments within WNC include;
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Neuro-psychology
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Neuro-outpatients
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Neuro-physiology
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Neuro-physiotherapy
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Neuro-theatres
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The Face place
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and Neuro-radiology.
Currently, the medical team consist of 12 Consultant Neurosurgeons, 11 Consultant Neurologists and four Consultant Neuro-radiologists who support a network of junior doctors.
A team of Specialist Nurses lead services, which include:
