Stoke Mandeville Hospital

Stoke Mandeville Hospital
Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust
Main entrance
Stoke Mandeville Hospital is located in Buckinghamshire
Stoke Mandeville Hospital
Shown in Buckinghamshire
Geography
LocationAylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England
Organisation
Care systemNHS England
TypeGeneral
Services
Emergency departmentYes
Beds369
History
Opened1832
Links
Websitewww.buckshealthcare.nhs.uk

Stoke Mandeville Hospital is a large National Health Service (NHS) hospital located on the parish borders of Aylesbury and Stoke Mandeville, Buckinghamshire, England. It is managed by Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust.

It was established in 1830 as a cholera hospital intentionally on the parish border between the neighbouring village of Stoke Mandeville and the town of Aylesbury to serve the residents of both settlements.

The hospital's National Spinal Injuries Centre is one of the largest specialist spinal units in the world, and the pioneering rehabilitation work carried out there by Sir Ludwig Guttmann, specifically the therapeutic use of competitive sport, led to the development of the Stoke Mandeville Games in 1948, the International Stoke Mandeville Games (now the World Abilitysport Games) in 1952, which in 1960 in Rome in turn became the Paralympic Games.