Horton General Hospital

About the hospital

The Horton General Hospital in Banbury serves the growing population in the north of Oxfordshire and surrounding areas.

It is an acute general hospital providing a wide range of services, including:

• emergency department (with an emergency admission unit)
• acute general medicine and elective day case surgery
• trauma
• maternity (midwifery-led unit) and gynaecology
• paediatrics
• critical care
• Brodey Centre (treatment for cancer).

The majority of these services have inpatient beds and outpatient clinics, with the outpatient department running clinics with visiting consultants from Oxford in:

• dermatology
• neurology
• ophthalmology
• oral surgery
• paediatric cardiology
• radiotherapy
• rheumatology
• oncology
• pain rehabilitation
• ear nose and throat (ENT)
• plastic surgery.

Acute general medicine also includes:

• a medical assessment unit
• a day hospital as part of specialised elderly care rehabilitation services
• a cardiology service.

Other clinical services include:

• dietetics
• occupational therapy
• pathology
• physiotherapy
• radiology.

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