ACCOMMODATION for more than 100 key health workers is being opened on Tuesday in Headington.
And the ceremony will be used to honour the memory of the pioneering orthopaedic surgeon Prof Gathorne Girdlestone who lived on the site.
The purpose-built staff accommodation is spread across four buildings in Old Road, near the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre.
Staff working at the NOC and at other Oxfordshire hospitals, will be able to rent the accommodation through a housing association, Sanctuary Alliance, at rents about 20 per cent below those usually asked in the city. It will also be available to staff from other trusts.
A blue plaque honouring Prof Girdlestone, who in 1933 founded the Wingfield-Morris Orthopaedic Centre, now known as the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, will be placed on one of the new blocks, opposite the NOC, on the site of his old home. Prof Girdlestone remained at the NOC until his retirement in 1948.
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