What is Stoke Mandeville Hospital?
[[Image:Stoke Mandeville Hospital New PFI Building - geograph.org.uk - 262468.jpg|right|250px]] '''Stoke Mandeville Hospital''' is a large [[National Health Service]] [[hospital]] in [[Buckinghamshire]], England. It is managed by Buckinghamshire Healthcare [[NHS trust|NHS Trust]]. It was set up in 1830 as a [[cholera]] hospital. It has the [[National Spinal Injuries Centre]]. This is one of the largest specialist [[Spine|spinal]] units in the world. The pioneering rehabilitation work carried out there by Sir [[Ludwig Guttmann]] led to the development of the [[Paralympic Games]]. Mandeville, one of the official [[Mascot|mascots]] for the [[2012 Summer Olympics]] and [[2012 Summer Paralympics|Paralympics]] in London, was named in honour of the hospital's contribution to Paralympic sports.<ref>{{Cite news|date=2010-05-19|title=London 2012 unveils Games mascots|language=en-GB|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/olympic_games/london_2012/8690467.stm|access-date=2023-12-03}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} [[Category:Hospitals in the United Kingdom]] [[Category:Buckinghamshire]] {{multistub|UK|med}}