Western General Hospital

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The Western General Hospital (often abbreviated to simply "The Western General"), at Crewe Road, Edinburgh, Scotland is part of The Lothian University Hospitals NHS Trust, an Acute Hospital Trust which provides a comprehensive range of adult and paediatric care to the people of Edinburgh, the Lothians and beyond.

It is one of the main teaching hospitals affiliated to the University of Edinburgh Medical School. It houses the neurology and neurosurgery centre for south east Scotland ("Department of Clinical Neurosciences"), the regional oncology and haematology Units, the regional Colorectal Surgical Unit and the Stroke Research Unit for Lothian. There is a major national cancer research and treatment centre at the hospital. The first Maggie's Cancer Caring Centre opened at the Western General in 1996.

The hospital also contains the Adult Cystic Fibrosis Unit. (Clinical services in Scotland for adults with cystic fibrosis are also provided from Aberdeen Royal Infirmary and Gartnavel General Hospital in Glasgow.) The Edinburgh team runs an outreach clinic in Dundee, and the University of Dundee is home to the cystic fibrosis audit database, which collects data on all registered CF patients to monitor their health trends. Training and support is also available for patients and their carers to facilitate and maximise independent living and to encourage community based management wherever possible, and there is also provision for in-patient and day case clinical management.