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The Walton Centre, formerly known as the Walton Centre for Neurology and Neurosurgery, is a major neurology hospital located in the suburb of Fazakerley; in the city of Liverpool, England. It is one of several specialist hospitals located within the Liverpool City Region; alongside Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital, Alder Hey Children's Hospital, Liverpool Women's Hospital, and Clatterbridge Cancer Centre. The Walton Centre is the only specialist neurosciences NHS trust in the country, dedicated to providing comprehensive neurological, neurosurgical and pain management services. The majority of patients originate from Merseyside, Cheshire, North Wales, Lancashire and the Isle of Man; but for some specialist treatments of complex disorders the centre sees patients from all regions of the United Kingdom, referred by their general practitioner (GP) or other hospitals. The hospital does not have an accident and emergency department, however; alongside adjoining Aintree University Hospital and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital in the city centre, the Walton Centre acts as a designated major trauma centre and receives emergency transfers for those who have sustained neurological trauma in the region.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Walton Centre - Merseyside and Cheshire Major Trauma Collaborative )〕 The wards in the hospital are all named after pioneering neurosurgeons in the 20th and 21st century. ==History== The Walton Centre originally provided services from the Walton Centre for Neurology at Walton Hospital on Rice Lane in Walton, Liverpool. However, as demand for services continued to increase; the capacity for provision at the relatively small Rice Lane site decreased and in 1998 all services were transferred to a new, purpose-built complex two miles north in Fazakerley adjacent to and adjoining Aintree University Hospital. The centre has continued to provide an expanding service to the public ever since.〔 The centre achieved NHS Trust status in 1992, and gained NHS Foundation Trust status in 2009. The model of care operated by the trust aims to ensure that the benefits of highly specialised care are taken as close as possible to the homes of the patients. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Walton Centre」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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