Patients visiting the Spires Cleft Centre in Oxford are benefitting from our beautifully refurbished clinic rooms, thanks to an extremely generous donation from the Regine Sixt Children’s Aid Foundation and Oxford Hospitals Charity. A garden-themed mural was designed by Izzy Matthews of Peagreen, in collaboration with patients and staff from the Spires cleft team. The […]
Our wonderful patient, Isabella Waistell, aged 10, and her family have once again been busy raising funds for the Spires Cleft Centre. Born with a cleft palate, Isabella is incredibly grateful for the care and support she has received from the Spires team and is passionate about giving something back to the centre and Robins […]
Babies born with wide cleft palates present a challenge to achieve the most favourable functional outcomes. There is a sparsity of evidence to support the optimal surgical management of babies with this cleft phenotype. Prashan Kangesu (Specialist Registrar in Plastic Surgery, Oxford Deanery) and Marc Swan of the Spires Cleft Service are collaborating with Amy Davies […]
Both Salisbury and Oxford teams have been wearing blue during our clinics this week to celebrate Cleft Awareness Week. Cleft Awareness Week – which runs from 16th to 24th May – is an annual campaign led by CLAPA to raise awareness of cleft lip and palate. It is an opportunity to celebrate the strengths of […]
The Spires Cleft Centre is proud to announce a new partnership with CLEFT (CLEFT) to support the development of cleft services in Sri Lanka. This collaboration will focus on training, education, and knowledge-sharing, with a shared ambition: ✨ to ensure children born with a cleft in Sri Lanka have the same access to high-quality care as those in the […]
On Thursday 7th May, the Spires Cleft Centre team were invited to present at the BSSCD national conference on the theme of multidisciplinary working. The conference celebrated 50 years of the British Society of Special Care Dentistry and was hosted at Kings’ College London by their President, Prof Tim Newton. We were delighted to be able […]
The Spires Cleft Centre team were delighted to attend the Annual Scientific Meeting of the Craniofacial Society of Great Britain and Ireland in Glasgow on the 22nd to 24th April 2026 – joining colleagues from across England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales. This year’s conference theme of Realistic Cleft Care: Optimising Outcomes & Minimising Burden of Care provided the perfect […]
Good luck to Teddy, one of our patient’s, whose dad and the ‘Handlebarmy Army’ are cycling from Bournemouth to Newcastle this week in aid of CLAPA. We wish them all the best! Here is the link to our fundraising page: Cycling the Premier League’s Longest Away Day for CLAPA is fundraising for Cleft Lip & […]
The Government has announced the cessation of funding for Training Interface Group (TIG) Fellowships for Cleft Surgeons. These are highly specialist surgical posts and have been pivotal at giving surgeons expertise at the interface with Oral and Maxiofacial Surgery, Plastic Surgery and ENT Surgery, all of which are essential for safe and effective Cleft Care. […]
We are thrilled to announce that Bhavika, an Honorary Registrar in Plastic Surgery at the Spires Cleft Centre, has been awarded a National Institute of Health and Care Research (NIHR) Doctoral Fellowship to undertake an exciting project entitled ‘Understanding and improving surgical care for children born with bilateral cleft lip and palate.’ Bilateral cleft lip […]