The Royal Victoria Hospital, Edinburgh, Scotland, is a purpose-built 247 bed hospital situated in the north-west of Edinburgh on Craigleith Road 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. These are spread over nine wards.
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 is a Medical and Psychiatric (Orchard) Day Hospital on site and a busy medicine of the elderly out-patient department. There is a further medical day hospital at Leith Community Treatment Centre (CTC). Outpatient clinics take place at the Royal Victoria Hospital and Leith CTC.
The Royal Victoria Hospital is due to be reprovided on the Western General Hospital site in May 2012. It will be a new build with 100% single room accommodation.
Work began on the new Building in June 2010 on the site of the old Paderewski building at the western which was the site of the Polish School of Medicine in 1941 until 1949 which was demolished in May 2010.
Once completed it will also hold dermatology and rheumatology outpatient clinics which are currently held at other lothian hospitals.