It is an associate teaching hospital for the London and Oxford postgraduate medical and dental education organisations.

It receives fully qualified nationally appointed trainees who are undertaking postgraduate training in a variety of specialties.

[11] In 1949, Harrison and Gillies had performed a pioneering operation to reconstruct the face of a patient born with a congenitally recessed maxilla.

Among the observers was French plastic surgeon Paul Tessier, who went on to refine the technique for the treatment of severely deformed children.

[10] Harrison, a graduate of the University of Glasgow (MB ChB 1935),[12] was a founding member of the British Society for Surgery of the Hand (BSSH).