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Working in the Oxford Region

The deanery covers the counties of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire serving a mixed population.   The area is both urban and rural with good links to London.

Trusts within the Deanery area

Hospitals

The main teaching hospital in Oxford is the John Radcliffe Hospital on Headley Way. The Oxford Deanery School is based at Buckinghamshire Hospitals NHS Trust (Wycombe and Stoke Mandeville Hospitals) with rotations to Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust for specialist rotations. The Buckinghamshire Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of half a million patients. Oxford is a major tertiary referral and cancer centre.
http://www.oxfordradcliffe.nhs.uk

Rotations

The Oxford Deanery School is based across 2 sites (Wycombe and Stoke Mandeville Hospital).  ST1's spend 6 months at Wycombe and 6 months at Stoke Mandeville Hospital. 

All ST1's rotate to Oxford Radcliffe NHS Trust for Specialty Attachments.  These consist of 4 block weeks of renal biopsy pathology, neuropathology, paediatric/perinatal pathology and additional liver biopsy pathology training.   There is a maximum of 6 ST1's at the Oxford Deanery School and 6 registrars across both sites.  Overall there are a maximum of 24 registrars training in Histopathology in the Oxford Deanery

ST2-5 training rotations include the following hospitals:

  • Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals, Oxford
  • Wycombe Hospital, High Wycombe & Stoke Mandeville Hospital, Aylesbury (Buckinghamshire Hospitals NHS Trust)
  • Wexham Park Hospital, Slough
  • Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading

18 months to 2 years are generally spent at Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals with the remaining time at a District Hospital.

Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals, undertakes fully subspecialised reporting.  It is a major regional cancer centre and provides tertiary referral services for most subspecialties.  All pathology is now at the John Radcliffe site, except for the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, where osteoarticular and some soft tissue pathology are undertaken. Surgery is undertaken at the Horton General Hospital in Banbury and the Churchill and JR Hospitals in Oxford are the main source of our specimens, apart from those which come from GPs.  For more information on sub-specialties, please click here.

With less than 30 miles between sites, the region is ideal for commuting.

Hospitals which have histopathology training within the deanery:

  • John Radcliffe, Oxford
  • Wycombe Hospital, High Wycombe
  • Stoke Mandeville Hospital, Aylesbury
  • Wexham Park Hospital, Slough
  • Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading

Surgical pathology

The combined Cellular Pathology departments from Wycombe and Stoke Mandeville Hospitals process 25,000 surgical specimens annually.  All major cancer specialities are covered with especially heavy workloads in breast, colorectal, urological and gynaecological cancers, lymphomas and skin pathology, with specialist services in ophthalmic and plastic surgery.

The departments include 10 Consultants and  up to 6 higher specialist trainees.

Trainees will have extensive exposure to all aspects of surgical pathology, with particular emphasis on oncology.

Cytopathology

The combined departments in Buckinghamshire process 65,000 cervical smears and 3,000 non-cervical cytology specimens annually.  Liquid based cytology is available in both departments, and trainees will have regular exposure to all aspects of cytopathology.

Autopsy Pathology

Buckinghamshire Hospitals conduct 750 post mortems annually, the majority of which will be available for training within the School, under Consultant supervision.  Specialist neuropathology and paediatric post mortems will be available within the respective specialist attachments at Oxford.