Royal Victoria Hospital, Edinburgh

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This article is about the hospital in Edinburgh, Scotland. For the hospital in Belfast, Northern Ireland, see Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast. For the former Royal Victoria Hospital in Netley, UK, see Netley Hospital. For the Canadian hospital, see Royal Victoria Hospital.

The Royal Victoria Hospital, Edinburgh, Scotland, is a purpose-built 247 bed hospital situated in the north-west of Edinburgh near the Western General Hospital. It is the main geriatric assessment and rehabilitation hospital for the north of Edinburgh and comprises a Medical Assessment/Rehabilitation Unit with 200 beds, and a Psychiatry of Old Age Unit with 47 beds.

Within the Medical Unit there is an Acute Assessment Ward, a two-ward Trauma Unit that specialises in falls and orthopaedic rehabilitation, a Parkinson’s Disease Unit, a rehabilitation ward with an interest in delirium, and a Stroke Rehabilitation Unit. There are three Day Hospitals on site (Medical, General Adult Psychiatry and Psychiatry of Old Age) and a busy out-patient department. There is a further geriatric medical day hospital at Leith Community Treatment Centre (CTC). Outpatient clinics take place at the Royal Victoria Hospital and Leith CTC.