: Hospitals Serving Adults Only A major trauma centre (MTC) is a specialist unit within the National Health Service of the United Kingdom, set up to provide specialised trauma care and rehabilitation.
MTCs provide emergency access to life and limb saving consultant-led care in a wide range of specialisms including anaesthetics, orthopaedics, neurosurgery, geriatrics, and emergency medicine.
All MTCs have an on-site CT scanner and emergency operating theatres on standby to perform immediate, life-saving surgery.
[1] All MTCs also provide consultant-led rehabilitation care, to optimise recovery at the earliest opportunity.
[1] The first major trauma centre opened in England in 2012, with Scotland following in 2018, and in the same year plans were announced for the first MTC in Wales.