Perth Royal Infirmary

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Perth Royal Infirmary NHS Tayside Acute Hospital Trust
Location
Place	Perth, Perth & Kinross, Scotland, (UK)
Organisation
Care System	Public NHS
Hospital Type	General Hospital
Affiliated University	University of Dundee
Services
Emergency Dept.	Yes Accident & Emergency
Beds	267 [1]
History
Founded	1912-14 1993 (recent extension)
Links
Website	Homepage
See also	Hospitals in the United Kingdom

Perth Royal Infirmary situated in Perth is the main district hospital. The Royal Infirmary, caters for both the city and wider Perth & Kinross area, with a population around 182 000, being served by the hospital. ^[2] The Royal Infirmary has formed part of the NHS Tayside University Trust status since 2006^[3]and is run by NHS Tayside Acute Hospital Trust. ^[4]

Contents 1 History 2 Facilities 2.1 Services 2.2 Hospital Extensions 2.3 Hospital Radio 3 Public Transport 4 References 5 External links

[edit] History

Perth Royal Infirmary (known as the New Infirmary) was built on a site on Glasgow Road between 1912 and 1914. An extension containing operating theatres and kitchens were later added to the layout of the building between 1934 and 1935. ^[5] The most recent addition to the Royal Infirmary was the inclusion of the A&E department in 1993. ^[6]

This was in order to replace the Perth County and City Infirmary which had shifted its focus into becoming a Red Cross hospital^[7], having been in existence since 1838. ^[8] The former site later on became the home of Perth County Council for at least 50 years until it was converted into the main city library in 1991. ^[9]

[edit] Facilities

[edit] Services

The hospital provides the following facilities. This includes: an A&E department; General Surgery; eldery medicine; surgical urology; day care gynaecology and general medicine and cardiology.^[10]

[edit] Hospital Extensions

A new 10 bed Macmillan cancer hospice costing £4.5 million is scheduled to open in 2009. The development will see the demolition of the listed Cornwall House for the use of the site.[1] A £2 million dialysis unit and £1.7 million haematology and oncology facility for cancer treatment are also to be built, after being allocated by NHS Tayside Acute Hospital Trust. They will be open to patients sometime during summer 2009. [2]

[edit] Hospital Radio

Hospital Radio Perth has been serving the Royal Infirmary and Murray Royal Hospital since 1989, prior to which they had been no hospital radio service in existence on the site. Hospital Radio Perth are the recipients of winning the UK Hospital Radio of the Year awards, three times 1996, 1997 and 1999, hence making this one of the most successful in operation in the UK.[3] The Hospital Radio were again given the UK Hospital Radio of the Year award in 2007 at the UK hospital radio awards in Northampton ^[11]

[edit] Public Transport

Perth Royal Infirmary is roughly one mile from the city centre. There are some bus services that run to the hospital, which are all provided by Stagecoach: the No.1 service stops right outside the hospital. A new bus link between P.R.I. and the other main Tayside hospital, Ninewells, is being proposed by Perth & Kinross Council and City of Dundee Council which will hopefully start in April 2008, to relieve the car parking problem that the hospital currently faces. [4]

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• NHS Tayside
• Hospital Radio Perth