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St Andrews - About Us

The Trust is home to the internationally renowned St Andrews regional plastic surgery service covering a population of 3.2 million and the supra regional burns service serving a population of 9.8 million.

The service is internationally renowned, and patients visit us from all around the world to be treated by our highly-trained specialist plastic surgeons.

If you are travelling to the centre, by whatever means of transport, here are some directions for you to follow.

By Air

Stansted Airport is approx 20 miles away (40 minutes by car). Chelmsford can be reached via the A120 and A130 routes.

By Car

Car parking is available for visitors and patients, however it is in great demand and so between the hours of 9am to 2 pm please leave in plenty of time as it is sometimes difficult to park. Alternatively, if possible please consider alternative ways of getting to the Trust.

Car Park Charges

0-1	Hours	£2.50
1-4	Hours	£3.50
4-8	Hours	£4.50
8-24	Hours	£6.00

Weekly parking tickets are available at a reduced rate.

Please visit the car park office to buy a long-stay ticket.

By Bus

From the Broomfield Site, bus links to the town centre also cover some major local residential areas, with a direct service to :

The Woodhall Estate, Melbourne, Springfield Park and Chelmer Village (no. 47) and
Galleywood (no. 42)

From the town centre, you can catch a bus to any major local residential area. Other services connect the town centre and Broomfield Hospital with areas out to :

Wethersfield (including Stebbing and Felsted, no.16)
Great Waltham, Great Dunmow and Stansted Airport (no.33)
Pleshey and Little Waltham (no.52)
Black Notley and Terling (off peak only, no.344) and
Braintree and Halstead (no.352)

By Rail

The hospital has excellent, frequent public transport links to the mainline railway station, with regular rail services to stations between London Liverpool Street and Ipswich. Services are provided by National Express train services.

St Andrews Centre Building at Broomfield Hospital

Plastic Surgery - An Overview

Plastic surgery is concerned with repairing and restoring skin and tissue. It aims to restore the best possible function and appearance to damaged skin and tissue, whether the damage is present from birth (congenital) or caused by disease or injury. To do this purely for aesthetic reasons is known as cosmetic surgery.

Cosmetic plastic surgery is concerned with:

removing or improving the appearance of birthmarks, moles, scars, tattoos, warts, cholesterol skin deposition (xanthelasmas) and other blemishes,
correcting disfiguring congenital defects, and
correcting defects of appearance at the request of the patient (elective cosmetic surgery).

Examples of elective cosmetic surgery include face lifts (rhytidectomy), nose reshaping (rhinoplasty), the correction of ear defects (otoplasty) and the removal of redundant eyelid skin (blepharoplasty).

The surgeon may:

Remove the top layers of skin to reduce superficial defects and foreign bodies (dermabrasion).
Peel the face chemically using alpha-hydroxy acids, to enhance and rejuvenate the skin.
Implant hair to remove bald spots from the scalp.
Insert silicone breast implants (augmentation mammoplasty).
Remove excess breast skin and fat (reduction mammoplasty).
Perform various kinds of body-contour surgery, such as liposuction (fat removal) on thighs, buttocks or stomach.
Remove unwanted hair, tattoos or threadveins using laser surgery.
Plump up the skin using cosmetic dermal fillers (cells or tissue) such as collagen or Restylane.
Temporarily relax facial muscles with a highly diluted and purified form of botulinum toxin (Botox).