The St Andrew's Centre is home to the world-renowned specialist burns and plastic surgery service based within Broomfield Hospital.
The St. Andrews Burn Centre includes the burns intensive care unit, children’s burns ward, adult burn ward, and burns outpatients.
The St Andrew's Centre, based at Broomfield Hospital, is home to the world-renowned specialist burns and plastic surgery service.
Last year, we celebrated 50 years of St Andrew's as a leading specialist centre.
The regional plastic surgery service now covers a population of 3.2 million and the regional burns service services a population of 9.8 million.
St Andrew’s takes its name from the hospital in Billericay where the burns and plastics unit was originally located. St Andrew's Hospital started life as a Victorian workhouse and become the regional plastic surgery and rehabilitation unit following the opening of a new general hospital in Basildon. The centre is now known for its excellence throughout the world.
We have separate pathways for adults and children and also different wards.
To find out about our adult burns information, visit the Adult burns page.
St Andrews Burns Centre which cares for children with the most complex burn injuries from across London and the south east of England and serves a population of 21million.
To find out more about the services we offer, visit the Children's burns service page.
This is a regional unit which specialises in hand trauma, burns and plastic surgery.
To find out more about the services we offer, visit the Hand trauma and assessment unit page.
The burns outpatients department is part of the St Andrew’s Burns Centre at Broomfield Hospital.
It provides a dressing and after care clinic for adult patients with a burn injury.
You may be referred by your GP or local hospital A&E if you have a new burns injury after being discharged from the burns wards.
When you come to burns outpatients for dressings you will always see an experienced burns nurse. you may also see a doctor, advanced practitioner, occupational therapist, psychotherapist or scar therapist if needed.
Our burns unit is part of the London and southeast Burns Network (LSEBN) and covers a large part of the east of England including London, north of the river Thames. This means that you may need to travel a long way for your burn care. A clinic is held once a week at the Princess of Wales Hospital in Ely to help reduce travelling distances for some patients.
If you are finding it difficult to get to your appointments due to finance or reduced mobility after your injuries, please discuss this with the nurses in clinic or call the us. You may be eligible for transport or help with some of your travel costs.
If you are not clinically well enough to travel to the outpatients department, our burns outreach team can come and visit you at home.
They also support other hospitals, care settings and district/community nurses to make sure that all patients get the best possible burn care.
If you feel you are not well enough to travel, please contact us using the details below and let us know.
You can contact us on 01245 516008.
We offer treatments newly diagnosed facial palsy in adults, newborns and children. We also treat recurring and longstanding facial palsy.
To find out more, visit the Facial palsy services page.
The North Thames Cleft Centre is based at the St Andrew’s Centre, Broomfield Hospital and Great Ormond Street for the care of adults and children with cleft lip and palate and related conditions.
To find out more about the services we offer, visit the Cleft services page.
St Andrew's Centre can offer laser treatments for the following conditions:
Treatments provided by the Pulsed dye laser.
Treatments provided by the Long pulse/Q switched ruby laser.
Treatments provided by the CO2 laser.
Most treatments are NHS funded but some private packages are also available. If you have any questions, please contact us.
You can email mse.laser.service@nhs.net or call 01245 515027.
St Andrew’s Centre has its own designated therapy department, to find out more about what they do and services they offer, visit the Burns and plastics therapy services page.