abstract:Stoke Mandeville Hospital is a large National Health Service hospital within Aylesbury Urban Area to the south of the town of Aylesbury, near the village of Stoke Mandeville in Buckinghamshire. It is part of Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust.
The Paralympic Movement has its origins here when neurologistSirLudwig GuttmanorganisedthefirstwheelchairGamesatStoke MandevilleHospital to coincide with the 1948 LondonOlympics.